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This feels helpful as I have to hold less stuff in my mind, but the UI is way too mouse dependent right now. You guys should make some shortcuts and somehow mak

This feels helpful as I have to hold less stuff in my mind, but the UI is way too mouse dependent right now. You guys should make some shortcuts and somehow make it “tiling” like a window manager (dwm), so you don’t have to manually resize windows.

akshaysg 2y ago
We actually do try to make the canvas as keyboard navigable as possible. There are a list of keyboard bindings in the "Keybindings and Help" button on the bottom right. In terms of manually resizing, we actually do try to tile in the viewport. May I know what's causing you to resize it so I can fix it?
- graerg 2y ago
  In this vein, do you know what the experience has been like for users that use the vim vscode plugin? I see that it's trivial to carry over extensions and whatnot, but is the experience still "good" trying to use both?
  - akshaysg 2y ago
    I use the Vim VS Code plugin! It mostly works, but I'm not going to lie: there are a couple of bugs e.g. when you go to definition the Vim selection gets confused because in most cases you get placed into a symbol editor. I am happy to fix any bugs here. I am the only person I know who uses the Vim plugin in Haystack, so I haven't prioritized fixing the bugs I encounter.
- ocean_moist 2y ago
  Sorry, I was just going off the demo. Maybe demo the keybinds briefly. If you get a demo of someone editing stuff super quickly using only keybinds I think it would look pretty cool. Right now I don’t know if the value prop is strong enough for me to switch editors and remodel/relearn all my keybinds. This is like a 10-15% improvement not a 1.5x or 2x improvement. An extension would probably help onboard users.
  - akshaysg 2y ago
    Hmm we do have a keybindings video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0MzADc0lV8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0MzADc0lV8 but I didn't want to overload the demo with this stuff. That's fair on the value prop!

akshaysg 2y ago

We actually do try to make the canvas as keyboard navigable as possible. There are a list of keyboard bindings in the "Keybindings and Help" button on the bottom right. In terms of manually resizing, we actually do try to tile in the viewport. May I know what's causing you to resize it so I can fix it?

graerg 2y ago
In this vein, do you know what the experience has been like for users that use the vim vscode plugin? I see that it's trivial to carry over extensions and whatnot, but is the experience still "good" trying to use both?
- akshaysg 2y ago
  I use the Vim VS Code plugin! It mostly works, but I'm not going to lie: there are a couple of bugs e.g. when you go to definition the Vim selection gets confused because in most cases you get placed into a symbol editor. I am happy to fix any bugs here. I am the only person I know who uses the Vim plugin in Haystack, so I haven't prioritized fixing the bugs I encounter.
ocean_moist 2y ago
Sorry, I was just going off the demo. Maybe demo the keybinds briefly. If you get a demo of someone editing stuff super quickly using only keybinds I think it would look pretty cool. Right now I don’t know if the value prop is strong enough for me to switch editors and remodel/relearn all my keybinds. This is like a 10-15% improvement not a 1.5x or 2x improvement. An extension would probably help onboard users.
- akshaysg 2y ago
  Hmm we do have a keybindings video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0MzADc0lV8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0MzADc0lV8 but I didn't want to overload the demo with this stuff. That's fair on the value prop!