Hacker News with Generative AI: Text Editing

The Efficiency of Vim (bencornia.com)
I learned to touch type in fifth grade. We would shuffle into the computer lab and open up Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing1. I peaked at about 80 wpm. Today, I type somewhere between 60-70 wpm. If I am writing code then that drops to 40-50 wpm. It bothers me that I can't crack 100 wpm but what I have come to realize is that text editing is less about typing speed and more about typing efficiency.

Vim, Text Editing, Programming, Productivity

55 points by bencornia 37 days ago | 81 comments

Zed Launches Edit Prediction with new Zeta LLM (zed.dev)
Zed is built for speed. We've always strived for an editing experience that feels instant. But what's faster than instant? A tool that anticipates your next move. That's why we're introducing edit prediction in Zed, powered by Zeta, our new open source model.

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Open Source, Text Editing

21 points by joeldrapper 48 days ago | 2 comments

I Blog with Raw Txt (misc.l3m.in)

Blogging, Programming, Text Editing

32 points by simonpure 51 days ago | 17 comments

Automating the Vim Workplace (2020) (sharats.me)
I majorly use two tools for my coding workflow and one of them is GVim (on Windows). It’s my primary choice for editing text for ten years now and in that time, I’ve picked up several habits and tricks that made me very productive.

Productivity, Vim, Workflow, Text Editing

74 points by leonry 52 days ago | 38 comments

Show HN: Transductive regular expressions for text editing (github.com/c0stya)

Show HN, Regular Expressions, Text Editing, Software, GitHub

263 points by c0nstantine 54 days ago | 102 comments

Llama.vim – Local LLM-assisted text completion (github.com/ggml-org)
Local LLM-assisted text completion.

Text Editing, Programming, AI, Vim

530 points by kgwgk 69 days ago | 105 comments

Using 2 Editors Because Xcode Is Dumb (christiantietze.de)
So I am working on auto-completion in NSTextView in a package called TextKitAutoCompletion.

Programming, Xcode, Software Development, Text Editing, Autocompletion

84 points by ingve 70 days ago | 102 comments

Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing large text (github.com/cessen)
Ropey is a utf8 text rope for Rust, designed to be the backing text-buffer for applications such as text editors. Ropey is fast, robust, and can handle huge texts and memory-incoherent edits with ease.

Programming, Rust, Text Editing, Data Structures, Libraries

249 points by keepamovin 77 days ago | 108 comments

Show HN: Copy from tmux/nvim to clipboard over SSH (mil.ad)
Copying text to clipboard when working on a remote machine via SSH can be tricky. While you can usually highlight text with your mouse to copy it to the primary selection clipboard (and paste with middle-click), this approach has limitations.

Remote Access, SSH, Clipboard, Text Editing, Tools

38 points by playnext 101 days ago | 2 comments

Lies I was told about collab editing, Part 1: Algorithms for offline editing (moment.dev)
In early 2024, I began investigating collaborative editing systems for use in Moment’s core text editor.

Software, Collaboration, Text Editing, Algorithms, Development

352 points by antics 117 days ago | 122 comments

Text Editing Hates You Too (2019) (lord.io)
Alexis Beingessner's Text Rendering Hates You, published exactly a month ago today, hits very close to my heart.

Text Editing, Software, Humor

126 points by airstrike 120 days ago | 62 comments

The missing text focused programming environment (utoronto.ca)
Hot take: the enduring popularity of writing applications in a list of environments that starts with Emacs Lisp and goes on to encompass things like Electron shows that we've persistently failed to create a good high level programming system for writing text-focused applications.

Text Editing, Programming Languages, User Interfaces

19 points by todsacerdoti 136 days ago | 6 comments

Unused Keys in Vim (fandom.com)
This page lists single unused keys in Vim. As such, it is an inverted version of :help index. In addition, the page lists synonyms that can safely be mapped.

Vim, Key Bindings, Text Editing, Programming

7 points by todsacerdoti 144 days ago | 0 comments

Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now (theverge.com)
Microsoft is adding AI-powered text editing to Notepad, the stripped-down text editor originally introduced in 1983.

AI, Text Editing, Microsoft, Software, Legacy Technology

281 points by redbell 147 days ago | 446 comments

Show HN: I Made Fleschkey – Non-AI Text Editor with Readability Insights (fleschkey.com)
For clear communication, try Fleschkey, the go-to tool for real-time readability analysis using the Flesch-Kincaid tests.

Software, Text Editing, Readability, Productivity

5 points by Smiler_ 200 days ago | 0 comments

Speech Dictation Mode for Emacs (lepisma.xyz)
There is a wide range of input mechanisms for computers, starting with keyboards (which are relatively mature) and extending to various types of neural interfaces (currently under research). Speech lies somewhere on this spectrum with a lot of promises but still not much to show for. Keeping accessibility aspects aside, I think speech is mature enough to be used for drafting ideas and taking notes. Maybe not so much for structured writing like programming or final versions of most prose.

Emacs, Speech Recognition, Text Editing, Accessibility

127 points by adityaathalye 202 days ago | 32 comments

Chrome and FF extension to edit any browser text field in an Emacs buffer (github.com/KarimAziev)