[HN Gopher] TextAdept
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TextAdept
Author : Tomte
Score : 74 points
Date : 2024-03-02 11:27 UTC (11 hours ago)
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| cranberryturkey wrote:
| just installed on arch. looks nice. needs some better syntax
| highlightning though
| mbork_pl wrote:
| Interesting. I can see two (perhaps a bit unorthodox) uses for
| this.
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| 1. As an Emacs-lite on some server I have access to, but don't
| want to install full Emacs on for some reasons. Currently I use
| Zile for that. And yes, I know about TRAMP but I have reasons not
| to use it.
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| 2. As a toy editor for my 7yo son to learn/practice typing on a
| computer/basic text editing. Currently I just fire up Emacs for
| him (what else?;-)), but it's easy for him to accidentally press
| something with unexpected results (and then daddy has to C-/
| and/or C-h l). Here, I could probably make a whitelist of
| possible operations.
| graemep wrote:
| I can think of many alternatives for both though.
|
| I do not see what it would have over zile for an Emacs user, or
| over a number of others for a non-emacs user (I mostly use
| micro these days).
| bogwog wrote:
| Another small, minimalist Lua-based text editor is Lite[1], and
| it's much less "light" cousin Lite-XL[2]
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| 1: https://github.com/rxi/lite
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| 2: https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl
| sspiff wrote:
| TextAdept has been around for ages. It's a great lightweight
| editor.
|
| However, it is missing a lot of features I've grown used to in
| (arguably more baroque) editors like Emacs, Helix and VS Code.
| Mostly stuff that builds on LSP.
|
| When I last tried it (admittedly almost two years ago), it didn't
| have Rust syntax support at all and I couldn't get LSP (which has
| a plugin module made by the main developer at
| https://github.com/orbitalquark/textadept-lsp) to work at all.
|
| I'd be interested to hear if anyone tried it more recently and
| has had a better experience.
| Narishma wrote:
| It does support Rust syntax in the current version. It seems to
| have an LSP module but I haven't tested it.
| dkh wrote:
| How has your experience with Helix been?
| two_handfuls wrote:
| My list of "minimal features I need from a text editor" has grown
| over the years, to include things like multi-caret edit. It's
| amazing how something conceptually as simple as "editing text"
| has grown so powerful and complex over the years.
|
| This one looks good, hopefully the default keybindings match the
| ones already wired in my brain.
| jdthedisciple wrote:
| Whadda u use multi caret for?
| smusamashah wrote:
| I want to replace Notepad++ with a better but still lightweight
| tool. NPP is clunky (weird text search, file explorer view via
| plugin is still weird etc). This looks promising at least from
| features and screenshots.
| sourcecodeplz wrote:
| Give Sublime Text a try.
| rubymamis wrote:
| Never heard of this before, but I just loaded War and Peace using
| it and the scrolling and typing speed are rather sluggish
| (although loading speed was good). Sublime Text doesn't sweat a
| bit. Same as my Qt C++ block editor. The War and Peace text is
| 3.3MB running on a 2017 MacBook Air.
| dkh wrote:
| I love that War and Peace is still the canonical "lots and lots
| of text" sample for testing these sorts of things
| coldtea wrote:
| Not sure if it actually is, but the editor widget looks like a
| wrapper of SCIntilla...
| steve1977 wrote:
| Source code says yes:
|
| https://github.com/orbitalquark/textadept/blob/default/src/t...
| coldtea wrote:
| In this case their claim "the editor is just 2000 lines" is
| BS I guess...
| syngrog66 wrote:
| how does it compare to vim?
|
| all new "simple, crossplatform" text editors must have an
| argument for them in a world where vim exists already, and has
| for decades
| dash2 wrote:
| "simple"?
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