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fox0430
moe
Nim2020–2022
fox0430 / moe

moe

A command line based editor inspired by Vim. Written in Nim.

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What to know before exploring

What it is

A command line based editor inspired by Vim. Written in Nim.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by month6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-08-08 14:46:13 UTC to 2022-10-21 12:17:27 UTC.

0122020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsAug 20202020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 20212021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsOct 2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Aug 20202020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Sep 20202020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 20202020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20202020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Dec 20202020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20212021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20212021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20212021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20212021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20212021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20212021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20212021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20212021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20212021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20212021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Dec 20212021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20222022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20222022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20222022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20222022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20222022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20222022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20222022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20222022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20222022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

6 sources
pietroppeter·Oct 21, 2022
a bit more info for those who do not follow too much: - first talk by Andreas will update us on Nim 2.0 which is planned within the year and where the most important part will be the switch to orc memory management (deterministic memory management with garbage collection only limited to collect cycles). - Suhei will talk about moe, vim inspired command line editor, see https://github.com/fox0430/moe (last year he talked about nicoru, docker in nim!) - Tanguy from status, main sponsor of nim (they are building a lightweight ethereum node in nim) will talk about libp2p (in nim AND other langs), which is relevant for crypto web 3 world - Antonis recently release a very nice library for fuzzing (an automated bug finding technique), see https://github.com/status-im/nim-drchaos - I will be presenting with Hugo on nimib, a "framework"/DSL way to
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turn nim code in html (sort of replaces jupyter for nim, can do more than that); in particular we made very easy with nimib to take advantage the capability of nim to compile to js. - next Hugo will present on how he created a nimib slides theme (based on reveal.js, at least 4 of the presentation seem to be based on nimislides) - Can has created a very interesting an experimental deep learning framework for Nim based on a differentiable array programming language (and he has been doing great work on other stuff too, like owlkettle): https://github.com/can-lehmann/exprgrad - Ryan will talk more about his incredible and frugal Entity Component System https://github.com/rlipsc/polymorph He did present on this topic in February but it seems it has progressed much and we might be seeing some very cool demonstration (that's speculation from thumbnail...) - Juan has been working of having Nim work with Unreal Engine "the world's most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool for photoreal visuals and immersive experiences". he has been working with Andreas to have Incremental Compilation (next big thing coming in the core language) so it looks pretty exciting - I know very little about the work of Chris on Nim-SOS and Nim-htpx (see https://github.com/ct-clmsn/nim-sos ) but it looks to be impressing work in the area of scientific computing - finally Andre/treeform is consistently producing great libraries and talks on Nim and I would not miss that talk for the world. all videos are pre recorder but authors will be around in the chat to interact. further discussion might appear here: https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/9539
In NimConf 2022 – Nim Online Conference
ZoomZoomZoom·Oct 13, 2022
If you want GUI and a working and extensive syntax highlighting, your options boil down to Scintilla-based editors, which means Notepad++, Geany[0], TextAdept[1] or Notepad3[2]. There's also lite-xl[3] and CudaText[4], which are not based on Scintilla. Lapce[5] also looks promising, although it's slightly stretching the "light" condition. For years, AkelPad[6] was considered to be the best substitute for the bundled Notepad, but it hasn't been updated in a while, although it still works absolutely fine in that role. For the console, Helix[7], Micro[8], Moe[9] are all possible options which will work in cmd.exe out-of-the box. Regarding vim/nvim - I had some issues with plugin-heavy configs running on top of Cygwin, but YMMV. 0. https://www.geany.org/download/releases 1. https://github.com/orbitalquark/textadept/releases 2. https://github.
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com/rizonesoft/Notepad3 3. https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl/releases 4. https://cudatext.github.io/download.html 5. https://github.com/lapce/lapce/releases 6. https://akelpad.sourceforge.net/en/download.php 7. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/releases 8. https://github.com/zyedidia/micro 9. https://github.com/fox0430/moe/releases
In Ask HN: Can you recommend me a fast, light text editor for Windows?
heavyset_go·Sep 25, 2020
I've been checking out alternative text editors, and was recently impressed with micro[1]. The only issue I have with it is that it doesn't handle text navigation with the Ctrl + arrow key combinations that let you jump to the start and end of words. There's a small revival of modernized text-based apps now that Go and Rust gained adoption. I've even come across an editor written in Nim, called moe[2]. Are there other editors out there that are worth trying out? [1] https://github.com/zyedidia/micro [2] https://github.com/fox0430/moe/
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