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[rahil627]

i just wanna say congrats!

just recently, i went through the wormhole of config'ing a vi/kakoune-influenced text editor called helix. it's got sane defaults, but absolutely nothing for insert-mode. that just feels wrong.. plus, i had to learn the ways of vi, buffers, jump lists, etc. it just feels like there's so much distance between vi/kakoune-like key-bindings and just typing text... like how hard must it be..!?

just today i tried a little text editor called lem, a sort of lean emacs-like thing, as i didn't want to go full doom-emacs, and immediately i felt it's low input latency. it felt good. plus it's written completely in lisp, which i was interested in trying (without the emacs). unfortunately, it's in deep dev and still very buggy.

gladly i noted this editor from a video of j-man testing it, and now having just tried it, i now understand why he was smiling the entire time:

i haven't felt a text editor this good since i discovered notepad2.exe, from wayyyyy back when!! that was legitimately all i ever used!!, the first thing i installed on everyone's computer. And don't even remind me of IDEs from back then... But my god, i don't think scrolling has ever felt this good..!

i just got this windows laptop, after having lived with just an ipad mini 2 with a wonderful low-key reading/writing app (intended for folks with dyslexia) called Voice Dream and an abandoned zen markdown editor called Byword for years (apparently, i am extremely productive away from computers altogether... 😅 ). After struggling with the learning curve of helix, and with vs-code there to remind me that my laptop's fan has a high-speed, i am so, so delighted to find something as simple, beautiful, and productive as those little iOS apps.

i really do think gamers, non-programmers, artists, ordinary folks will be the ones to make more sensible things like this...

its design choices are sooo gooooood!

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