Editor Bookmarks
Links to pages about writing text or diagram editors.
#Editor #Bookmarks
Online, mixing text and sketches: https://smallandnearlysilent.com/
https://smallandnearlysilent.com/
Talks about all sorts of command-line things but also discusses editors, notably helix:
Helix both has autocompletion for its built in command line and a contextual hint that appears when you press the first key in a multi key combo. This drastically helps both new and experienced users learn and remember keybinds without making the editor any less powerful. – The Modern CLI Renaissance
Text editor hell:
Rendering text, how hard could it be? As it turns out, incredibly hard! To my knowledge, literally no system renders text “perfectly”. It’s all best-effort, although some efforts are more important than others. – Text Rendering Hates You
From the perspective of somebody who worked on the editing side of things, I have just a few points to add. – Text Rendering Hates You Too
@waxbanks@heads.social writes about Emacs, life in text, the nineties, and a lot more:
Emacs articulates a philosophy of freedom which holds that a person isn’t truly free unless she has total privacy and total control over her tools. Thus all of Emacs is open to examination and introspection down to the *bare metal*, its lowest-level C code. Despite the complexity of the tool and computation environment, nothing is snuck by the user. The program has been built specifically to enable that introspection; that’s what it’s for, not text editing — which it’s good at — but granting (enacting) control over computation, the precise opposite of today’s ‘walled garden’ conventions. -- bare metal (the emacs essay), by waxbanks
Teamtype enables real-time collaborative editing of local text files. You can use it for pair programming or note-taking, for example. It's the missing real-time complement to Git!