Text editors are like mechanical watches or fountain pens. There is just so much beauty in the machinery that makes them. For me, there are hardly any other modules that are this satisfying to watch being made. Each time I find a new one (a good one like this), with everything on ropes and rendering and I-beam placement computations and ... it feels like a Christmas gift.
pmkary [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Just what part of this comment deserved to get a -1 point leaves a whole universe of imagination to me and no answer :/
pmkary [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Literally I only praised and wrote how much I love something and how beautiful text editors are. And there are people who cannot stand this :))) oh wow!
self_awareness [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Text editing is a solved problem.
It's not about the style of cursor, or if rope is used or not. We already have answers to that.
I am being pushed to use vs code right now by my team, but we already have a fully programmable and scriptable editor called emacs that is 100000x better. I don't understand why everyone just switches to these random tools. Text editing is a solved problem. Most of the supposed advantages of these tools is just a configuration of vim or emacs.
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It's not about the style of cursor, or if rope is used or not. We already have answers to that.
It's about remote editing, LSP support.
They don't make 'em like Sublime Text anymore - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209354 - Aug 2026 (13 comments)