Updates to Zed with even more AI…
I am not convinced the LLM support in code editors are actually “agents.” However, kudos to Zed to have built this all in Rust and keep the app native. It’s a _lot_ of work that went in to do that. In a world where every code editor brings these capabilities, one way to continue to differentiate yourself to the developer community is to consistently make choices that highlight your philosophy and taste.
Weaponized Words: Uyghur Language Software Hijacked to Deliver Malware
This analysis details a spearphishing campaign targeting senior members of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) in March 2025. The attackers used a trojanized version of a legitimate Uyghur language text editor to deliver Windows-based malware for remote surveillance. While not technically advanced, the malware delivery was well-customized to reach the Uyghur community. This incident is part of a broader pattern of digital transnational repression against Uyghur diaspora by actors likely aligned with the Chinese government. The malware profiled systems, sent information to remote servers, and could load additional malicious plugins. The campaign demonstrates the ongoing digital threats facing exiled Uyghur communities and the exploitation of software meant to support marginalized cultures.
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#textEditor #vim #emacs #kakoune #foss
I’ve been using Emacs with evil mode for a while now but I just stumbled into an editor called Kakoune. Has anyone had any experience with it? How does it compare to other modal text editors? Is it worth trying?
Finally getting a handle on https://prosemirror.net/.
Managed to make my own toolbars and a prototype dialogue for inserting @mention type links.
It will be very powerful, in combination with codemirror, but has proven a bit tricky to get started with, in the context of the Vue framework, which tends to create proxy objects for reactivity.
Prosemirror spits those out in disgust.
[PROJET] #Gedit simple snippets
Petite extension en #python très basique pour récupérer un peu des fonctionnalités du #plugin snippets abandonné sur le bas côté depuis Gedit 48.
Ca ne reprendra jamais toutes les possibilités de l'ancien code (parce que bogué et lourd à maintenir)
Ça permet juste d'avoir des raccourci-clavier pour insérer du texte.
* https://omacronides.com/projets/gedit-simple-snippets
* https://framagit.org/rui.nibau/gedit-simple-snippets
#KateEditor needs oh-so-many commands it doesn't have, but one I would use often is "return to previous position". If I mistakenly hit Ctrl+Shift+End when I only meant to hit Shift+End, I end up at the end of the file when I only wanted to select to the end of the line.
In TSE, I could hit a key to execute PrevPosition() to be back where I was. But Kate doesn't have this feature, and I have to scroll up until I find my place. Annoying.
Kate might have good code-editing features, but as far as text editing goes, it lacks many basic #TextEditor commands I used in The Semware Editor under Windows.
Been working on a little text editor called `uwu` for the last day or so as a learning project at Recurse Center. Finally starting to take shape! There's a welcome message and cursor is movable now. 
This has been so much fun. I've learned all about how terminals work and how things like screen size and key presses work. Will keep plugging away at it.
#texteditor #learning #recursecenter #uwu
Did you know that the history of Interlisp crossed with the history of modern word processors and MS Word?
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You have to pay me pretty well to use Mac OS or Windows… and that is what my new employer is doing, so I have started using Mac OS as a daily driver again for the first time in over 15 years. For the most part I have been quite disappointed with how things have changed in that time.
But, I just discovered one little detail in the Mac OS “Text Edit“ application that made my day: it has a few of the Emacs key bindings built-in. You can do Control-N,P,F,B to move the cursor around, Option-Control-F,B to jump around words, and Control-Y to paste text. (Unfortunately, Control-W does not copy text.) I am sure there are a few others, I haven’t bothered to check yet.
Well done, Mac OS engineers.
Autopen: A Revolutionary Text Editor for LLM Insights
Introducing Autopen, a groundbreaking text editor that provides a unique lens into the workings of large language models (LLMs). By visualizing token probabilities and generating multiple text continu...
https://news.lavx.hu/article/autopen-a-revolutionary-text-editor-for-llm-insights
I woke up and realised that the Zed Reference Manual (the Cambridge Phoenix line editor that i used (not my daily driver)) should be in the Internet Archive. So now it is:
https://archive.org/details/zed-reference-manual
I still have a fondness for this editor. It's interesting from an alternate-history "what if Unix didn't win?", except that this alternate-history _did_ happen. It streamed but you could also go backwards, a bit; which made it considerably easier to use than sed(1).
#Zed #Phoenix #TextEditor
text files are a form of ui. and a very simple and portable one. beyond the utf stuff, you have a cursor or a point, you hit a key on your keyboard, it gets inserted at the cursor.
then there is navigation, which is primarily line and column based, you move in a 2d grid. and theres also the idea of a word, which is a whitespace seperated block of text. and with those, you have the editing model of most modern text editors. gnu readline (though im not sure if that's the origin), and ed are both line editors. and in turn, any derivatives are also line editors. vim is a line editor.
but then theres us programmers, the primary users of text editors. our interface isnt text files, or lines or words. it's a layer on top of all that, it's syntax that we interact with. and compilers, interpreters, or whatever else - they consume this syntax. not just any raw text. compilers work with parse trees and nodes. not lines or words. why don't editors reflect that?
Notepad3: The Lightweight Text Editor Revolutionizing Coding Efficiency
In the ever-evolving landscape of programming tools, Notepad3 emerges as a robust yet lightweight text editor that caters to developers' diverse needs. With its rich feature set and minimal memory foo...
https://news.lavx.hu/article/notepad3-the-lightweight-text-editor-revolutionizing-coding-efficiency
Helix 25.01 has been released, https://helix-editor.com/news/release-25-01-highlights/.
It’s sooo damn good. Better completion, inline diagnostics, tabular picker (yummy), macro keybindings and so much more.
Excellent work!
#dailyreport #emacs #traditions #emacscult #bestpractices
#thebestide #programming #computerscience #texteditor
I added small patch to Emacs and I am testing two others
for calendar and for indent.el.
I see the best practices of Emacs as following:
- Easy debugging with ability to jump to code
- Separate parts with two language, easy scripting
environment and efficient compiled core
- KISS is everything and the path of KISS should be learned.
- Respect to traditional console and great effort to
avoid conflicting keybindings.
Emacs birthday is March 20, 1976.
There is a cult of some character, find it yourself.
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Rhyolite: A New Era for Text Editing Inspired by Obsidian
Meet Rhyolite, the innovative text editor that's shaking up the open-source community. Built with Tauri and Svelte, this project breathes new life into the classic text editing experience, offering a ...
https://news.lavx.hu/article/rhyolite-a-new-era-for-text-editing-inspired-by-obsidian
I wanted a text editor that works on the command line and does non-destructive word wrap (i.e. doesn't hard code in new lines where I didn't add them). My main consideration (apart from the word wrap thing) is that it work well over SSH because I do a lot of that these days.
I tried a bunch before I found one I like. From a practical perspective, it's Linux only. (Follow up for reply guys in the following toot.)
The interface is reminiscent of the DOS command Edit and it has a lot of features and functionality I wouldn't have expected.
It's called Tilde and it's pretty great.
