I think a helix-mode would go a long way into making the reedline experience more complete, now targeting the three major modal editors.
Helix's philosophy is a bit like this (a small excerpt from their vision page on github):
Selection -> Action, not Verb -> Object. Interaction models aren't linguistics, and "selection first" lets you see what you're doing (among other benefits).
We aren't playing code golf. It's more important for the keymap to be consistent and easy to memorize than it is to save a key stroke or two when editing.
helix also has multi-cursors but we could add it later.
Also important to note that helix is heavily inspired by kakoune, so this would be satisfying for that group of users too.
I added a comment in the keybinding discussion: #69 (comment)
and if needed a could open an issue in nushell's main repo.
EDIT:
One can easily set the EDITOR environment variable to hx and then press ctrl o while typing on nushell
This will open a temporary buffer in helix, and there you go, helix mode
So this diminishes the case of this feature, but it still exists, of course!
I think a helix-mode would go a long way into making the reedline experience more complete, now targeting the three major modal editors.
Helix's philosophy is a bit like this (a small excerpt from their vision page on github):
helix also has multi-cursors but we could add it later.
Also important to note that helix is heavily inspired by kakoune, so this would be satisfying for that group of users too.
I added a comment in the keybinding discussion: #69 (comment)
and if needed a could open an issue in nushell's main repo.
EDIT:
One can easily set the EDITOR environment variable to hx and then press
ctrl owhile typing on nushellThis will open a temporary buffer in helix, and there you go, helix mode
So this diminishes the case of this feature, but it still exists, of course!