Hacker News with Generative AI: Text Editors

Rhyolite: Simple text editor in Rust using Tauri, Svelte. Inspired by Obsidian (github.com/RedddFoxxyy)
A simple text editor written in Rust using Tauri and svelte for frontend, inspired by Obsidian. Discord:- https://discord.gg/K6FAd8FTma

Rust, Text Editors, Tauri, Svelte, Obsidian

17 points by thunderbong 7 days ago | 1 comments

Adding UTF-8 support to the Kilo editor using AI and human hints [video] (youtube.com)

Text Editors, AI, Programming, Video Tutorials

19 points by antirez 10 days ago | 1 comments

Emacs: Fringe Matters, Finding the Right Difference (karthinks.com)
Continuing my avocation of writing to increasingly niche audiences, today we have a matter at the intersection of several small Venn bubbles:

Emacs, Customization, User Interfaces, Text Editors

43 points by signa11 17 days ago | 2 comments

The Road to Emacs Maximalism (schonfinkel.github.io)
I’ve stumbled across a method of composing programs that excites me very much. In fact, my enthusiasm is so great that I must warn the reader to discount much of what I shall say as the ravings of a fanatic who thinks he has just seen a great light. (Knuth 1984, 1)

Programming, Software Development, Emacs, Text Editors

18 points by fluidwizard 17 days ago | 5 comments

Vim is a cast iron skillet (eamoncaddigan.net)
Vim was released as “Vim” in 1991, and is an extended version of vi, which itself has been around since 1976. Its default interface—the one I use daily—is a “text user interface” that’s launched in a terminal emulator (i.e., the “command line”2). Vim has mouse support, but it’s superfluous because everything can be accomplished through commands typed on the keyboard.

Vim, Text Editors, Command Line, Software, User Interface

12 points by ossusermivami 24 days ago | 6 comments

Sublime Text 4 Build 4189 (sublimetext.com)
Sublime Text 4, build 4189 is out now with lots of improvements and fixes.

New Releases, Software, Text Editors

9 points by robenkleene 28 days ago | 0 comments

BBEdit for Log Analysis (scottwillsey.com)
Long-time Mac users will undoubtedly have heard of BBEdit. BBEdit is the favorite Mac text editor of many old Mac users1 for various types of writing, including programming, notes, articles, and basically any type of writing Mac nerds can do.

Text Editors, Mac, Programming

7 points by DavideNL 28 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: What Vim habits did you need to unlearn? (ycombinator.com)
If you don't use Vim, know that it has probably the steepest learning curve of any text editor (or at least non-IDE editors) and many users pick up habits along the way they need to unlearn.

Text Editors, Vim, Learning, Habits

4 points by WonderAlmighty 31 days ago | 8 comments

Ad: An Adaptable Text Editor (github.com/sminez)
ad (pronounced A.D.) is an attempt at combining a modal editing interface of likes of vi and kakoune with the approach to extensibility of Plan9's Acme. Inside of ad text is something you can execute as well as edit.

Text Editors, Programming, Software, Open Source, Command Line

142 points by xelxebar 31 days ago | 61 comments

What Is Vim? (jonas.foo)
The answer seems fairly obvious - an editor. To some an obscure way to interact with your computer, to others the only way.

Text Editors, Programming, Vim

136 points by sauercrowd 34 days ago | 176 comments

Why Emacs Is the Best: 10 Key Advantages (midirus.com)
In this post I explain why I believe Emacs is the greatest text editor.

Text Editors, Programming, Emacs

10 points by ossusermivami 35 days ago | 1 comments

Aqua Voice (YC W24) for Desktop (ycombinator.com)
Hey, this is Finn from Aqua Voice. Today we're releasing Aqua Voice for Desktop (https://withaqua.com). Aqua is a voice-driven text editor that lets you dictate using natural language commands.

Software, Text Editors, Artificial Intelligence, Voice Recognition

12 points by the_king 38 days ago | 9 comments

Switching to the meow modal editing system from evil Emacs (esrh.me)
The first modal editing system I used was vim. After the initial learning curve that comes with getting used to not being able to type in every mode, it introduced me to a few key ideas that I feel lead to decidedly more efficient editing

Text Editors, Programming, Efficiency, Vim

17 points by fanf2 56 days ago | 5 comments

Kibi – A text editor in less than 1024 lines of code, written in Rust (terminaltrove.com)
A text editor in less than 1024 lines of code, written in Rust.

Rust, Text Editors, Programming Languages, Open Source

20 points by jkstill 66 days ago | 8 comments

Ask HN: Alternative to Emacs with undo-tree functionality? (ycombinator.com)
I have been using Emacs for about 10 years and am getting tired of its idiosyncrasies and performance hiccups. I tried a bunch of alternative editors with scripting support (most recent being TextAdept) but none of them seem to have a native Undo-Tree [1] features or an API powerful enough to build it. So, I am asking here: are there any non-Electron based editors with a reasonably decent scripting layer or a plugin system, and Undo Tree functionality.

Text Editors, Programming, Productivity, Software, Open Source

16 points by HexDecOctBin 84 days ago | 23 comments

The Anvil Text Editor (anvil-editor.net)
Anvil is a graphical, multi-pane tiling editor that makes bold use of the mouse and integrates closely with the shell. It supports syntax highlighting, multiple cursors and selections, remote file editing, and contains a powerful text manipulation language.

Text Editors, Software, Productivity, GUI, Command Line

127 points by bwidlar 87 days ago | 106 comments

Implementing attributes for plain text using subranges like Emacs (akkartik.name)
Emacs-style ranges on a text buffer that I can now hang attributes like color, decorations and click handlers on to.

Text Editors, Programming, Emacs, User Interfaces

23 points by todsacerdoti 89 days ago | 4 comments

Show HN: Semantic Macros Text Editor (samrawal.com)

Software, Text Editors, Programming

69 points by zora_goron 89 days ago | 19 comments

Firepad – An embeddable open-source collaborative code and text editor for web (firepad.io)
Real-time collaboration with no server code.

Open Source, Collaboration, Text Editors, Web Development, Code Editors

18 points by bookstore-romeo 97 days ago | 6 comments

Lessons from Plain Text (rugu.dev)
When you interact with a text file using an editor, what you see doesn’t necessarily reflect the data stored in the file.

Text Editors, Programming, Data

99 points by kugurerdem 100 days ago | 69 comments

炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space (github.com/mitoma)
炊紙は三次元空間上でテキストを編集できるテキストエディタです。「かしきし」と発音します。

Text Editors, GPU, 3D, Software, Programming

240 points by hiroshi3110 106 days ago | 101 comments

Multics Emacs: The History, Design and Implementation (multicians.org)
Multics Emacs is a video-oriented text preparation and editing system running on Honeywell's Multics [Multics] system, being distributed as an experimental offering in Multics Release 7.0.

Operating Systems, Text Editors, History

5 points by handfuloflight 111 days ago | 1 comments

Combobulate: Bulk Editing Tree-sitter Nodes with Multiple Cursors (masteringemacs.org)
I’m sure you’ve found yourself in this situation: you want to edit something, but in multiple places, and at the same time. You’re busy; you don’t want to repeat yourself, and this is the twenty-first century and we do have the technology to do this!

Text Editors, Programming, Productivity, Emacs, Tree-sitter

15 points by signa11 121 days ago | 0 comments

Wonderful Vi (world.hey.com)
The speed of change in technology often appears to be the industry's defining characteristic.

Text Editors, Software, Productivity

16 points by thunderbong 122 days ago | 5 comments

Wonderful Vi (world.hey.com)
The speed of change in technology often appears to be the industry's defining characteristic.

Text Editors, Software, Technology

7 points by matricaria 122 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative (github.com/voideditor)
Void is an open source Cursor alternative.

Open Source, Text Editors, GitHub Copilot, Programming Tools

347 points by andrewpareles 123 days ago | 155 comments

Acode – powerful text/code editor for Android (github.com/deadlyjack)
Welcome to Acode Editor - a powerful and versatile code editing tool designed specifically for Android devices. Whether you're working on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or other programming languages, Acode empowers you to code on-the-go with confidence.

Android, Mobile Development, Text Editors, Programming, Open Source

12 points by iscream26 124 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Ki Editor – Multicursor syntactical editor (ki-editor.github.io)
Ki 1 Editor is a modal 2 editor that supports multi-cursor structural editing.

Software, Text Editors, Programming, Multi-Cursor Editing

138 points by hou32hou 131 days ago | 71 comments

Show HN: A retro terminal text editor for GNU/Linux coded in C (C-edit) (github.com/velorek1)