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I’m fanatical about having and using the best tools. I take a great deal of pride in it. I take great care with my VSCode extensions and their configuration. I

I’m fanatical about having and using the best tools. I take a great deal of pride in it. I take great care with my VSCode extensions and their configuration. I likewise take great care with neovim and having it set up properly. Modern Emacs Lisp is easily the best environment among my daily drivers for interacting with my editor in real time. Of anything modern I only know Zed a little: Zed in theory might be better than Emacs. Outside of maybe Zed, which I haven’t mastered, Emacs Lisp is bar nothing the best tool-making tool for serious hackers.

throwaway48540 2y ago
Do you have your configuration available somewhere? Would love to see some VSCode inspiration.
- benreesman 2y ago
  I’m actually kind of a newb on sharing dots in the VSCode world, I auth with GitHub to get then on a new machine. Is there a way to publish that?
  - throwaway48540 2y ago
    You can open your settings using cmd/ctrl+comma and there is a button in top right corner that opens the JSON file itself.
    - benreesman 2y ago
      That procedure gives this opaque link: https://vscode.dev/editor/profile/github/e5b2f79ed7fbed47d95071509e643683 https://vscode.dev/editor/profile/github/e5b2f79ed7fbed47d95... I'm reticent to give you that garbage that I can't diff or know if it's worth anything. Life in the VSCode era.
poulpy123 2y ago
Why is zed better ? (Real question I don't know it)
- ducktective 2y ago
  In terms of GUI interaction speed and input latency, Zed imho is better. Just see for yourself the first 2 minutes of their showcase video [1]. They have written their own abstraction layer (GPUI) over Apple's Metal (I'm not sure whether that is portable to Vulkan, DirectX 12 or not). And what is Emacs's most performant rendering backend? PGTK is recently gaining traction. [1]: https://zed.dev/ https://zed.dev/
  - benreesman 2y ago
    I haven’t tried hard with Zed because last time I took a serious go at it (roughly 4-6 months ago) it didn’t have a great story for remote machines. If you’re doing production work, sooner or later your laptop won’t have the same GPU as the target. At that point an editor without a remote facility becomes an accessory. If you’re on a Mac, there is an NVIDIA target these days. You have to be able to edit code next to the card.
TwentyPosts 2y ago
You sound like you'd enjoy giving the Helix editor a try. It replaced neovim completely for me.
- robinsonrc 2y ago
  Helix is really great. It’s so nice to not require screenfuls of configuration. And Emacs Lisp fans will feel right at home when the Scheme plugin system lands
  - cmrdporcupine 2y ago
    How will emacs fans feel at home, in an editor that has mandatory modal editing?
    - benreesman 2y ago
      It sounds like the parent is proposing Helix as an alternative to nvim for modal use cases. I’ll have to check it out.
      - cmrdporcupine 2y ago
        It's a good editor, if modal is your thing. Requests in the past to add immediate-style editing capabilities have basically stated it won't/can't happen.
- cmrdporcupine 2y ago
  I keep coming back to Helix ... but... modal editing. Nope.

throwaway48540 2y ago

Do you have your configuration available somewhere? Would love to see some VSCode inspiration.

benreesman 2y ago
I’m actually kind of a newb on sharing dots in the VSCode world, I auth with GitHub to get then on a new machine. Is there a way to publish that?
- throwaway48540 2y ago
  You can open your settings using cmd/ctrl+comma and there is a button in top right corner that opens the JSON file itself.
  - benreesman 2y ago
    That procedure gives this opaque link: https://vscode.dev/editor/profile/github/e5b2f79ed7fbed47d95071509e643683 https://vscode.dev/editor/profile/github/e5b2f79ed7fbed47d95... I'm reticent to give you that garbage that I can't diff or know if it's worth anything. Life in the VSCode era.

poulpy123 2y ago

Why is zed better ? (Real question I don't know it)

ducktective 2y ago
In terms of GUI interaction speed and input latency, Zed imho is better. Just see for yourself the first 2 minutes of their showcase video [1]. They have written their own abstraction layer (GPUI) over Apple's Metal (I'm not sure whether that is portable to Vulkan, DirectX 12 or not). And what is Emacs's most performant rendering backend? PGTK is recently gaining traction. [1]: https://zed.dev/ https://zed.dev/
- benreesman 2y ago
  I haven’t tried hard with Zed because last time I took a serious go at it (roughly 4-6 months ago) it didn’t have a great story for remote machines. If you’re doing production work, sooner or later your laptop won’t have the same GPU as the target. At that point an editor without a remote facility becomes an accessory. If you’re on a Mac, there is an NVIDIA target these days. You have to be able to edit code next to the card.

TwentyPosts 2y ago

You sound like you'd enjoy giving the Helix editor a try. It replaced neovim completely for me.

robinsonrc 2y ago
Helix is really great. It’s so nice to not require screenfuls of configuration. And Emacs Lisp fans will feel right at home when the Scheme plugin system lands
- cmrdporcupine 2y ago
  How will emacs fans feel at home, in an editor that has mandatory modal editing?
  - benreesman 2y ago
    It sounds like the parent is proposing Helix as an alternative to nvim for modal use cases. I’ll have to check it out.
    - cmrdporcupine 2y ago
      It's a good editor, if modal is your thing. Requests in the past to add immediate-style editing capabilities have basically stated it won't/can't happen.
cmrdporcupine 2y ago
I keep coming back to Helix ... but... modal editing. Nope.