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As someone who uses Vim to write articles and documentation in addition to code, I'd really love to see a richer UI with proper support for features like variab

As someone who uses Vim to write articles and documentation in addition to code, I'd really love to see a richer UI with proper support for features like variable-width fonts. It looks like the developer behind this refactoring effort has some really good ideas for decoupling the Vim engine from the user interface layer. It'd be great if somebody could build a really good cross-platform Qt-based UI on top.

tarruda 13y ago
That actually is planned on the first iteration of the fundraiser, see the FAQ
- segphault 13y ago
  That's really great! After reading the FAQ, I have contributed $100. Best of luck with the project!
  - tarruda 13y ago
    Thanks a lot :)
- jnbiche 13y ago
  Is there some way to donate via Bitcoin?
  - ben0x539 13y ago
    And via EVE Online isk?
    - jnbiche 13y ago
      Yeah, when it has a 10 Billion USD market cap, is accepted by Fortune 500 companies and leading Internet sites, and is celebrated by successful venture capitalists like Fred Wilson and HN's founder, get back to me. (And you'll probably retort with the failure of an exchange that almost everyone in the Bitcoin community has been hoping would fail for the past 3 years). But seriously, I'm pretty sure that you can exchange Eve online currency for Bitcoin, so I'd sure take it as a donation if someone offered.
keithpeter 13y ago
"I'd really love to see a richer UI with proper support for features like variable-width fonts." Would the variable-width fonts be simply for display with plain text being edited and buffered, or do you wish to be able to have rich text formatting within the editor (e.g. italic, bold, smart quote marks &c)? Just interested: rich text formatting has been suggested for emacs I recollect.
- ics 13y ago
  By none other than rms himself.[0] [0]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-11/msg00515.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-11/msg00...
- segphault 13y ago
  For display purposes, yes. I want better text readability when I'm working on an article. A nice variable-width font, more line spacing, etc. I want my Vim buffer to look as good and be as comfortable to read as a native text editor like Byword. For formatting, I mostly use Markdown. Ideally, I'd like to see the literal markdown for the paragraph under the cursor, but formatted text for the rest of the buffer. There's actually a script with a pretty good first pass at achieving that kind of Markdown support via Vim's "conceal" feature, but some of Vim's inherent limitations make it imperfect: https://github.com/tpope/vim-markdown/pull/9 https://github.com/tpope/vim-markdown/pull/9 I'm hoping that the way neovim decouples the UI layer from the underlying editing engine will make it easier to address issues of that nature.
  - keithpeter 13y ago
    I can see what you mean, although the flicking between markup and formatted text as you moved the cursor would annoy the hell out of me I think. Now, would the cursor be a block over a character or a caret between characters? A lot of history riding on that one. Jef Raskin's Canon Cat springs to mind with its in-place commands (but not Vim's modefulness).

tarruda 13y ago

That actually is planned on the first iteration of the fundraiser, see the FAQ

segphault 13y ago
That's really great! After reading the FAQ, I have contributed $100. Best of luck with the project!
- tarruda 13y ago
  Thanks a lot :)
jnbiche 13y ago
Is there some way to donate via Bitcoin?
- ben0x539 13y ago
  And via EVE Online isk?
  - jnbiche 13y ago
    Yeah, when it has a 10 Billion USD market cap, is accepted by Fortune 500 companies and leading Internet sites, and is celebrated by successful venture capitalists like Fred Wilson and HN's founder, get back to me. (And you'll probably retort with the failure of an exchange that almost everyone in the Bitcoin community has been hoping would fail for the past 3 years). But seriously, I'm pretty sure that you can exchange Eve online currency for Bitcoin, so I'd sure take it as a donation if someone offered.

keithpeter 13y ago

"I'd really love to see a richer UI with proper support for features like variable-width fonts." Would the variable-width fonts be simply for display with plain text being edited and buffered, or do you wish to be able to have rich text formatting within the editor (e.g. italic, bold, smart quote marks &c)? Just interested: rich text formatting has been suggested for emacs I recollect.

ics 13y ago
By none other than rms himself.[0] [0]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-11/msg00515.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-11/msg00...
segphault 13y ago
For display purposes, yes. I want better text readability when I'm working on an article. A nice variable-width font, more line spacing, etc. I want my Vim buffer to look as good and be as comfortable to read as a native text editor like Byword. For formatting, I mostly use Markdown. Ideally, I'd like to see the literal markdown for the paragraph under the cursor, but formatted text for the rest of the buffer. There's actually a script with a pretty good first pass at achieving that kind of Markdown support via Vim's "conceal" feature, but some of Vim's inherent limitations make it imperfect: https://github.com/tpope/vim-markdown/pull/9 https://github.com/tpope/vim-markdown/pull/9 I'm hoping that the way neovim decouples the UI layer from the underlying editing engine will make it easier to address issues of that nature.
- keithpeter 13y ago
  I can see what you mean, although the flicking between markup and formatted text as you moved the cursor would annoy the hell out of me I think. Now, would the cursor be a block over a character or a caret between characters? A lot of history riding on that one. Jef Raskin's Canon Cat springs to mind with its in-place commands (but not Vim's modefulness).