alt Hacker NewsThis feels like two steps up from a highly customized vim config. But I want one step up.
I want to be able to piece together an editor from modular task specific executables. Different programs for file searching, input mapping, buffer modification and display, etc. Probably similar to how LSPs are already separated from most editors.
One step less hardcore than writing a whole editor.
Anyone know of any existing projects along these lines?
Acme [1]
It steps back from the “customize everything” mantra, believing that approach leaves users with an underdeveloped essential system. But it still has two major APIs: one for window manipulation [2], the other for text-based integration with the surrounding system via plumber [3].
All textual CLI tools (that is, those without pseudographics) work by default and are the heart of its style.
I use Acme for everything except web browsing (although most links are still managed by Acme).
[1]: http://youtu.be/dP1xVpMPn8M
[2]: http://9p.io/magic/man2html/4/acme
[3]: http://9p.io/sys/doc/plumb.html