curlpipe/ox

Some questions regarding this project?

Raj2032 opened this issue · 7 comments

Raj2032 commented

Hi guys I have some questions regarding this project:

  1. Is this project still alive?
  2. Is it like dwm where you would modify part of the source code as the source code is the settings?
curlpipe commented
  1. Unfortunately not, I'm having real trouble trying to get unicode, syntax highlighting and file buffering to work together, I've been trying for a long time, but it's not working.
  2. See https://github.com/curlpipe/ox#configuring-ox for more information on configuration.
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Raj2032 commented

Hi @curlpipe

  1. Would this still be an issue if it was written in another language due to how Rust can be restrictive?
  2. Thanks for the link :)
curlpipe commented

It's not Rust that's the issue, it's that the way I process unicode, which is efficient as I can do, is still quite slow and so big files take ages to open, hence I tried buffering them (only reading what is needed) but syntax highlighting these partially open files is incredibly difficult to do.

Raj2032 commented

@curlpipe I see mate, its a shame the project couldn't continue. I would have loved to help but I don;t know much about this stuff. Hope to see it opened up soon :)

adsick commented

I'm interested in this project too, it looks nice to me. Previously I've watched at Helix and neovim, but Helix is too obsessed with their "kakoune" style editing which is bad and vim/neovim is a scripting hell when it comes to setting it up as an ide. It also is too hard to learn but not because it's modal, it is because it lacks discoverability I guess - hundreds of keybinds in different mods which are pretty hard to access with :help command.

adsick commented

btw if you think that supporting unicode is too hard (which I don't really believe tbh) then I'd simply drop it as you can perfectly live without it.

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