It says on the main page of the yi google project page is to make yi the editor of choice for haskell hackers.
I'm wondering if that is still the perferred mission. I only bring this up since several other contributors on the list have mentioned goals that were a little more ambitious. I think Yi has a lot of potential as an editor for any source code myself and I'm wondering if maybe we should revisit the mission statement? Are we content to only target haskell developers or do we want build an editor that is awesome for use by anyone? Personally I'd like to see Yi be an edtior that hardcore coders perfer. Right now the only two real contenders in that realm are Vi and Emacs. Vi has the modal edting interface sown up but sucks for configurability and extensibility. Emacs has the extensibility and configurability down pretty good at least as compared to Vi but it's text editing affordances leave a lot to be desired. I originally got interested in Yi because I was dissatisfied with both. I'm a pretty advanced Vim user but switched to emacs after banging my head against vimscript once too many times. I run Emacs in viper mode with vimpulse and it gets me close but not quite all the way to vim editing with Emacs extensibility still available to me but it's not optimal yet. Yi seems to have a good foundation to closing the gap between Vim and Emacs that I'm looking for. It also has potential in the IDE space without sacrificing its text editing and extensibility. I say all of this to ask what do the other developers want to accomplish in Yi and is there a common unified theme we can pull from that? Jeremy -- Yi development mailing list yi-devel@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/yi-devel
