hDec 26, 2017

Request for comments:

Users and fanatics of Emacs, vim, Sublime, Textmate, Github Atom and other such text editors, I would like to know what are your ten or twenty most loved features and keyboard shortcuts in your respective text editors.

I'm working on hot-editing hypertext that keeps links updated (like Xanadu, but read/write) and I would like it to be a tool that designers, coders, and content creators feel at home with. (not an Office clone like Google Docs)

#gopherine #gopher2049

Show threadneil 🍄Dec 26, 2017

@h I think modal vim bindings would work brilliant for read/write hypertext. I'd love to be able to navigate around in command mode, then jump into insert mode whenever I wanted to update something. Any subset of vim bindings is automatically a win for me for any app :)

Basic command mode navgiation (j/k/h/l, 0, $, w, b, gg/G, Ctrl-f/Ctrl-b) and basic insert mode shortcuts (i/I, a/A, o/O, ESC) would be a great start.

Show threadh
@neil That's a good idea. So Esc + I would be bound to "enter Edit Mode" action.
Dec 26, 2017 at 1:50pmWeb
Show threadneil 🍄Dec 26, 2017
@h Yep various keys jump you into edit mode, and then ESC (or Ctrl-[, or even quickly pressing fd which spacemacs does) takes you back to command/navigation mode. That quick back and forth between navigation/command and edit modes seems like it could work well for both navigating and then hot-editing hypertext.
Show threadhDec 26, 2017
@neil This is more a Unity thing than an emacs thing, right?