On lut 11 11:47, Daniel Littlewood wrote: > I wonder whether there are any text-editing (particularly > code-editing) workflows people have had success with which combine > many small programs, rather than using a single monolith.
I highly recommend vis (https://github.com/martanne/vis). I've been using it successfully for around 2 years now. It is minimal enough to have a small and understandable codebase (around 20k lines C code + some Lua iirc) and it doesn't implement unnecessary features. For example it doesn't implement window/tab management, for which you can use tmux. In its core functionality it's very similar to vim, the main difference being structural regular expressions taken from sam (a very simple and very powerful feature). Vis is also easy to combine with other programs - I've built an "IDE-like" experience by combining it with tmux (to manage buffers), nnn (for a window with the filesystem tree), Python/R interpreters for a read-eval-print loop etc. I don't see the benefit of delegating things like syntax highlighting to an external tool. It's a performance-critical functionality because it's called often and I'm pretty sure that piping large files back and forth would be slow (though I haven't tried). IMO vis strikes the perfect balance of being small and minimalist, but containing all the necessary features to be usable and efficient. Best regards, Maciej
