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I don't get the point of using a modal editor these days. Just get a keyboard with QMK ( for example, there is also a software approach) and you can edit comple
by kohlerm 5y ago
I don't get the point of using a modal editor these days. Just get a keyboard with QMK ( for example, there is also a software approach) and you can edit completely on the home row (everywhere!) without the need for a modal editor.
- Craven 5y agoLink your keymap.c? I've seen people add binds for various "Vim like" actions, but they always seemed a bit ad-hoc. I would love to see a map that's been battle tested.
- TeddyDD 5y agoHow keyboard macro can possibly replace an editor that operates on text objects? Let's say you have 'foo bar' string, and you want to change quotes to " In Kakoune this operation could look like this: <a-a>' # select string including quotes <a-S> # select first and last character of previous selection r" # replace selections with " Trivial, 5 keystrokes and it works for any type of quotes (I can do for example <a-a>`). Notice that "replace quotes around the string" is not built-in operation in Kakoune. Now how would you achieve that in non-modal editor that also doesn't have this operation built-in?
- archseer 5y agoSure, I have two QMK keyboards right here: https://github.com/archseer/keys https://github.com/archseer/keys I consider key remapping orthogonal though, as TeddyDD has stated, there's more to modal editors than just convenient shortcuts.
- lawn 5y agoI have a QMK 34 key keyboard, with lots of layers, combos, tap-olds and things, but it doesn't provide nearly as much as a modal editor does. Select inside a block? Comment out a region? Jump to line X? Jump Y lines up? Go-to definition? Autocomplete? Insert snippet? Even a simple thing as delete the next two words or jump to next "f"? I think the issue is that you don't grok vim.