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God I hope to see some great looking editor like this (or Panic Nova?) with .. somehow.. integration with Neovim, Kakoune and etc. Aka an editor that can be a f

God I hope to see some great looking editor like this (or Panic Nova?) with .. somehow.. integration with Neovim, Kakoune and etc. Aka an editor that can be a frontend to "classical" CLI editors. I would pay so much to be out of the Terminal, but I need to use my normal editor (Kakoune in my case). I want to pay for a high quality frontend. I fear the market isn't there and so the product I want will never be made. My hope however is that someday someone can make a great editor GUI that could be pluggable for users like me.

Skunkleton 7y ago
Why do you want to be out of the terminal? IMO the CLI is what makes the terminal editing experience good.
- asdkhadsj 7y ago
  I like the CLI too, and would still need it if I "left" the Terminal. What I mean by out of the terminal is that I simply want my editing experience to have variable fonts, popups, borders for windows that aren't bound to font size, better icons, underlines, etc etc.
  - Skunkleton 7y ago
    yeah, I totally get that. I keep toying with VSCode for the same reason. The problem w/ gui based tools in general is that they don't usually follow unix design principles. You end up making lots of little compromises just to integrate into your editor.
    - asdkhadsj 7y ago
      Yea, which is why I want a real frontend, not an emulator or w/e. Ie, there are real frontends for both Neovim and Kakoune. They let the editor do the real lifting, and they merely change the UI. That is what I want, but in a super well presented manner. I'd happily pay ~200/y for that. BUT, I think this frontend would also have to have a "normal" editor built in, because I don't think people like me would pay enough to allow a dev to write this editor full time.
      - Skunkleton 7y ago
        VS Code has a plugin that uses neovim as a backend. I haven't tried it yet: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asvetliakov.vscode-neovim https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asvetlia...

Skunkleton 7y ago

Why do you want to be out of the terminal? IMO the CLI is what makes the terminal editing experience good.

asdkhadsj 7y ago
I like the CLI too, and would still need it if I "left" the Terminal. What I mean by out of the terminal is that I simply want my editing experience to have variable fonts, popups, borders for windows that aren't bound to font size, better icons, underlines, etc etc.
- Skunkleton 7y ago
  yeah, I totally get that. I keep toying with VSCode for the same reason. The problem w/ gui based tools in general is that they don't usually follow unix design principles. You end up making lots of little compromises just to integrate into your editor.
  - asdkhadsj 7y ago
    Yea, which is why I want a real frontend, not an emulator or w/e. Ie, there are real frontends for both Neovim and Kakoune. They let the editor do the real lifting, and they merely change the UI. That is what I want, but in a super well presented manner. I'd happily pay ~200/y for that. BUT, I think this frontend would also have to have a "normal" editor built in, because I don't think people like me would pay enough to allow a dev to write this editor full time.
    - Skunkleton 7y ago
      VS Code has a plugin that uses neovim as a backend. I haven't tried it yet: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asvetliakov.vscode-neovim https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asvetlia...