MTmtts·Dec 3, 2019
One of the editors it lists is "vy" : a Vim-like in python: https://github.com/vyapp/vy
Does anyone have any experience with this? I'd love to have a vim that is more pleasant to program.
edit: added link
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A vim-like in Python.
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A vim-like in Python.
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What Hacker News says
10 sourcesShow HN: Vy – a powerful but retro and minimalist IDE
143 points · Open discussionShow HN: Vy) the Vim-Like on Tkinter
5 points · Open discussionShow HN: Vy) A humble vim-like implementation in Python
3 points · Open discussionShow HN: (vy) A nifty vim-like editor running on python3 now
6 points · Open discussionMy next plan is extending Lax with a basic set of latex structures and integrating with vy. (This was one of the goals behind Lax)
https://github.com/iogf/vy
I believe some other editors like emacs/vim could integrate with it so people could easily ease the effort for writing some latex structures.
In Show HN: Lax – Write Python to output LaTeXShow HN; New golang autocompletion for vy with minimalistic implementation
1 points · Open discussionVy – A Vim-like in Python made from scratch
129 points · Open discussionCurious, want to try it yourself before you flame it to death for being in python 2 or claiming to be remotely plausible as a vim substitute?
git clone https://github.com/iogf/vy
cd vy
virtualenv .
./bin/pip install untwisted pygments
./bin/python setup.py install
You'll probably want to edit /vyapp/plugins/toggle_mode.py to use a KeyPress binding that is valid for your platform at this point, or you'll get:
_tkinter.TclError: bad event type or keysym "Apostrophe"
...and finally,
./bin/vy
Right, now you can start playing wading your way through https://github.com/iogf/vy/blob/master/INTRO.md and try to understand the command syntax.
Good luck!
Vim clones are a dime a dozen; this is actually an entirely different thing, and although I can't imagine actually using it for anything... it's interesting to see people work
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on different approaches to text editors.
A simple hackable python text editor may not be useful in the long term for anything (for all the reasons about distributing python and python performance limitations), but its certainly viable for prototyping interesting features.
Vy – A Vim-like in Python made from scratch
116 points · Open discussion