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What is Enki's unique (selling) proposition? #441
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Personally, the primary use for Enki is its unique ability to support Literate Programming. (I'm biased, since I'm the author of those abilities). My slogan would be: "Enki enables your to write programs, communicating the reasoning behind the code your wrote, rather than simply coding." |
Hi, guys |
Hi For me, Enki's USP for hackers is availability of
I.e. Sublime lacks 2. It is generally good, but editing config files to configure the editor is a pain. Enki plugin is able to construct pretty GUI config dialogue, because can use PyQt. For users I've never tried to create a USP. Just make a very good editor. And, for me, Enki is unique because of the best text editing user experience. Basic operations like open a file, edit text, search-replace, navigation. But, it is difficult to explain in the marketing texts. |
I wouldn't like to use text A hackable text editor built without web technologies. |
@andreikop Ok, I wouldn't treat anything as an enemy. It's only for the user to know what they are getting when they use Enki. What slogan what you like? A programmable text editor built with Qt and Python? Btw, if you want, I am happy to help you out with marketing. |
I think users don't really care what is programming language and GUI framework. The editor just must be good. Any help is welcome! |
I would assume that in the case of a programming editor every user (especially an early user) is a potential contributor and vice versa. Being able to use Python to extend the editor is the central feature, in my opinion. Because then (almost) everything else can added by the users.
What does this mean for in the case of Enki? |
I think this - If I could design things, I would do little flash on the cursor position when Enki starts. Then I would try to create a transparent "glass" overlay over editor area with some simple single-key shortcuts for navigation - like go to line 2233, end file, next function, error from clipboard, whatever.. with Enter key breaking the glass. |
I would also lock scroll events from touchpad to current content area - not to mouse focus, and have a modifier key like control to disable this behavior. |
I wonder what is Enki's USP? I would like to create a compelling slogan/USP that can be communicated on sites like Hacker News. My personal goal is to grow the userbase/ecosystem of Enki, that more interesting features are created via plugins.
The Enki website states the following features:
For me, it seems a lot of these features can be said for most text editors. What sets Enki apart?
My personal reasons to use/hack Enki are:
If I would have to boil it down to a slogan I would say: A hackable text editor built without web technologies.
What do you guys think? What is your reason to use and hack Enki?
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