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I love a new editor as much as the next guy but has there been any real new/novel features in text editors over last 10 years? I feel like sublime text got mos

by jatins 11mo ago

I love a new editor as much as the next guy but has there been any real new/novel features in text editors over last 10 years? I feel like sublime text got most of it right and every editor since then has been a reskin of the same (just written in a different stack)

benrutter 11mo ago
Language server protocol is a huge deal! Without it, I think we'd still see a lot more JetBrains style language bespoke IDE use and a lot less VSCode style text editor + plugin combos. Since the original post was about a TUI editor, its worth mentioning Helix which supports most modern language out the box. That's amazing and wouldn't have been possible 10 years ago.
_sinelaw_ 11mo ago
Sublime, Atom, VSCode, and now Zed are all GUI-based. That's not bad - but I prefer the terminal (and I find tmux + ssh very convenient). I guess it's a matter of personal taste. For terminal based, there are also many options but not so much in the direction of "VSCode style". They're mostly focused on being "vi-style". And also the huge file support isn't as good in any of the others that I've tried.
- venturecruelty 11mo ago
  Vim and Emacs run in the terminal perfectly well.
  - _sinelaw_ 11mo ago
    I'm a big emacs user for many years but the amount of config tweaking and package installation needed (for me) is too much. And I never made it past the elisp learning curve
    - venturecruelty 11mo ago
      Genuinely curious why you're tweaking your configuration so frequently. I've been an emacs user for ten years now, and I've settled on a configuration that works. I hear this a lot, too, and I just can't figure out why people need to edit their .emacs file so much.
      - _sinelaw_ 11mo ago
        Either because I move to a new machine, or because new version of emacs breaks some (no longer maintained) packages

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I love a new editor as much as the next guy but has there been any real new/novel features in text editors over last 10 years? I feel like sublime text got mos

by jatins 11mo ago

benrutter 11mo ago
Language server protocol is a huge deal! Without it, I think we'd still see a lot more JetBrains style language bespoke IDE use and a lot less VSCode style text editor + plugin combos. Since the original post was about a TUI editor, its worth mentioning Helix which supports most modern language out the box. That's amazing and wouldn't have been possible 10 years ago.
_sinelaw_ 11mo ago
Sublime, Atom, VSCode, and now Zed are all GUI-based. That's not bad - but I prefer the terminal (and I find tmux + ssh very convenient). I guess it's a matter of personal taste. For terminal based, there are also many options but not so much in the direction of "VSCode style". They're mostly focused on being "vi-style". And also the huge file support isn't as good in any of the others that I've tried.
- venturecruelty 11mo ago
  Vim and Emacs run in the terminal perfectly well.
  - _sinelaw_ 11mo ago
    I'm a big emacs user for many years but the amount of config tweaking and package installation needed (for me) is too much. And I never made it past the elisp learning curve
    - venturecruelty 11mo ago
      Genuinely curious why you're tweaking your configuration so frequently. I've been an emacs user for ten years now, and I've settled on a configuration that works. I hear this a lot, too, and I just can't figure out why people need to edit their .emacs file so much.
      - _sinelaw_ 11mo ago
        Either because I move to a new machine, or because new version of emacs breaks some (no longer maintained) packages