Anvil piqued my interest especially because it provides a REST API to interact with it opening the door to writing extensions in practically anything, similar to Kakoune in that regard. But what I find odd is that there's no mention of a repo (though it has a link to a Discord server) anywhere on the site as far as I've seen.
Sadly there's no mention of LSP either which is kinda a deal-breaker these days nor anything about tree-sitter. But at the same time this might mean that Anvil is free to experiment with its own solutions without being tied to a standard. Every cloud a silver lining or how it goes.
Gio also seems like a solid choice for the UI.
I hope Anvil becomes more popular, it would be fun to see a new generation of niche text editors duke it out between Lem, Helix and Anvil.
But seriously though, why does everything these days need multiple cursors? It's a confusing visual gimmick in every scenario I've seen it implemented in. I'll take fully fleshed out structural regular expressions or even perl-re over multiple cursors any day. Combined with as vim's [c]onfirm flag you get all the benefits of multiple cursors without all the clunky downsides and weirdness.
When I need to edit the code around next five instance of "foo", but not every instance in the open file, then I don't know how to do that with structural regular expression, but pressing ctr+d five times and then edit what I want is really straight forward.
And I need to edit around a limited version of foo way more often than I need to edit all instances.
I see multiple cursors as an alternative to macros rather than regexp. There's stuff that is really awkward with regexp, like anything involving multiple lines, for example.
Anvil piqued my interest especially because it provides a REST API to interact with it opening the door to writing extensions in practically anything, similar to Kakoune in that regard. But what I find odd is that there's no mention of a repo (though it has a link to a Discord server) anywhere on the site as far as I've seen.
Sadly there's no mention of LSP either which is kinda a deal-breaker these days nor anything about tree-sitter. But at the same time this might mean that Anvil is free to experiment with its own solutions without being tied to a standard. Every cloud a silver lining or how it goes.
Gio also seems like a solid choice for the UI.
I hope Anvil becomes more popular, it would be fun to see a new generation of niche text editors duke it out between Lem, Helix and Anvil.
Source code archives are available on the download page: https://anvil-editor.net/download/
But as you said I couldn't find a repo.
> multiple cursors
But seriously though, why does everything these days need multiple cursors? It's a confusing visual gimmick in every scenario I've seen it implemented in. I'll take fully fleshed out structural regular expressions or even perl-re over multiple cursors any day. Combined with as vim's [c]onfirm flag you get all the benefits of multiple cursors without all the clunky downsides and weirdness.
When I need to edit the code around next five instance of "foo", but not every instance in the open file, then I don't know how to do that with structural regular expression, but pressing ctr+d five times and then edit what I want is really straight forward.
And I need to edit around a limited version of foo way more often than I need to edit all instances.
I see multiple cursors as an alternative to macros rather than regexp. There's stuff that is really awkward with regexp, like anything involving multiple lines, for example.
If this can be compiled into WASM and embedded in a web page...
I’m not convinced Snarf is still a good name for any function in any piece of software these days. Or ever was, to be honest.
It got that name from Acme. I don't think it's any worse than "yank", which most of us continue to put up with.
One (kill) ring to find them...
Snarf always remembers me of the Thundercats pet.
Wow, something I didn't know was in my brain, and you found it. Snarf!