Joachim Wiberg2d ago

Over the past months I've been creating a #MicroEmacs look-alike called kg, clearly flirting with Mg, and today I've released v1.0.0! 🎉 Pick it up at https://github.com/troglobit/kg

I'm curious to hear what people think, there's a pre-built .deb file for users of #Debian #Ubuntu #LinuxMint, and yes for all the #Arch people there's a PKGBUILD file contributed early on by @bodil 😊

#emacs #terminal #console #embedded #linux

GitHub - troglobit/kg: Light Weight UTF-8 Text Editor

Light Weight UTF-8 Text Editor. Contribute to troglobit/kg development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Show threaddaniel lublin1d ago
@troglobit I saw it the other day. Compiled it now. When I start it, and hit `q` it just quits. So one can't complain about it being hard to exit... But this is apparently intentional, I'm not supposed to type in the special buffer?
Show threadJoachim Wiberg1d ago
@quite wow, nice catch dude! This is obviously not the way it's supposed to work 😆 thanks for the report, I'll push out a v1.0.1 release immediately!
Show threaddaniel lublin1d ago
@troglobit It's not? However odd it seems, both in the man page, and in a comment in kbd.c, I read what seems like the intention is that `q` should closes the "special buffer". And the location of that `c == 'q'` is very prominent. Now I become suspicious.
Show threadJoachim Wiberg1d ago
@quite opening the editor and pressing the 'q' key should obviously not cause the editor to exit. I'm sorry for your experience, but I'm grateful for your report.
Show threaddaniel lublin1d ago
@troglobit Hm allrite. But 'q' should still close a *scratch* buffer (if it's not the sole buffer). Never came across this kind of behaviour before, but I'm probably ignorant :) It's like nudging the user to not use these special buffers?
Show threadJoachim Wiberg1d ago

@quite you found a neat corner case, the default one, we shouldn't close the editor when the *scratch* buffer is the only buffer.

Should be fixed in v1.0.1 https://github.com/troglobit/kg/releases/tag/v1.0.1

Release kg v1.0.1 · troglobit/kg

Bug Fixes Fix q quitting the editor when typed in a lone *scratch* buffer; q now only closes special buffers when another buffer is available

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Show threaddaniel lublin
@troglobit ok, i'm still a bit confused why 'q' is (mostly) forbidden i special buffers, oh well
Mar 26 at 8:54pmWeb
Show threadJoachim Wiberg1d ago

@quite Not forbidden, just a key to dismiss the buffer, like escape or "back" or whatever you came from.

Sorry, early days for this little project. Thank you for taking the time to test it out!