cursorless VS vscode-gitlens

What are your opinions on https://www.cursorless.org/ ?

Are you targeting developers?

My understanding was people who are serious about developing via voice use it pretty exclusively.

Like, yeah you need to learn commands, but "are often not worth it" feels like brushing a pretty massive offering under the rug.

Is learning vi / emacs commands not worth it (or shortcuts in another IDE?)

Is there a middle ground?

actually I just saw that someone is working on a keyboard mode for Cursorless! https://github.com/cursorless-dev/cursorless/issues?q=is%3Ai...

See for example: - https://youtu.be/xtOkYdwUves?si=X01vGNVhNRjj7kXh - https://www.cursorless.org/ - https://talonvoice.com/

I would highly recommend checking out https://www.cursorless.org/, an editor for voice built on Talon (what’s being used here by Josh) and a VSCode extension. If for nothing else than to watch the dev live code with it.

Yep. So I've been working for about fifteen years, had it from the start, but it just keep on getting worse. So now have migrated to a no keyboard solution, and am working on a no mouse solution.

My setup, software:

- talon (https://talonvoice.com/), basing my configuration on the standard repo (https://github.com/knausj85/knausj_talon/), with some minor modifications. This is how I navigate my whole computer, and runs the voice recognition and eye tracking. This is how I'm typing this right now. There are also a bunch of other little system changes that you need to make (eg, on macOS, disable double space to type a period), which is documented by the community with varying levels of success.

- cursorless (https://www.cursorless.org/), and then vscode. Before this I used Sublime Text for years and years, but cursorless is too good for coding. I know there are some projects on going to port it to different editors, but I haven't massively looked into it.

- vimium extension for web browsing (works in both chrome and firefox). This makes things like clicking links easier with your voice, without having too use an eye tracker all the time.

And then hardware:

- DPA 4488 microphone -> DAD6001 microdot-XLR converter -> Shure X2U USB XLR interface. ~£800. It's a very expensive microphone, but it's what the developer of talon uses (same brand anyway), and since I'm using this for work I want to remove every obstacle to having my voice recognised correctly and quickly

- Tobii Eye Tracker 5. ~£250. This is basically the only game in town. It works well enough but needs a lot of light. It also needs to be physically mounted to a monitor. In theory this means I don't need to use a mouse, but because I have a 34" ultrawide it doesn't work well on the edges, so I have a specific window size and location configured (say "layout mouse") which I could move apps into if I need to.

- At some point soon I want to replace the X2U with something higher quality and more permanent on my desk. Soon!

If you're programming, and open to doing it by voice, definitely check out Cursorless: https://www.cursorless.org/

It's worth mentioning Talon[0] here, which is a system for offline voice control as well, with great python-based scripting.

Using your computer or programming with it works like a charm, with some interesting and impressive projects like Cursorless[1] coming out as well, based on it.

[0]: https://talonvoice.com/

[1]: https://github.com/cursorless-dev/cursorless

Disclaimer: not affiliated, just a happy occasional user

IntelliJ: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/investigate-changes.html

VSCode:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mhutchie...

or https://github.com/gitkraken/vscode-gitlens#commit-graph-

SourceTree: https://confluence.atlassian.com/sourcetreekb/viewing-log-hi...

Quite a while ago, the GitLens+ plugin gained the Commit Graph feature--the same graph you see in GitKraken. Until then I had used Git Graph for visualizing my repositories and GitLens+ for git blame in the GUI. Since one plugin could now do both, the natural course of action was to remove the other--goodbye, Git Graph!

Btw, today I want to speak about something different, I love git and I love terminal, but sometimes I love having the info visualised appealingly and get info about the source control quickly. I work with VsCode typically, so some months ago I tried to find a solution for this editor that resolves what was said before. After googling and some testing, the result of my search was: GitLens. Now, I want to show you how it works and how it can improve your routine. So don't waste time and let's jump in it!

GitLens extension chef's kiss

for GitLens https://gitlens.amod.io/

The better version is to have something like gitlens installed into your IDE and have it dynamically render those git comments.

https://github.com/Axosoft/vscode-gitlens#current-line-blame...

I learned the cli first, but I do use vscode's git integration for staging and committing. I also love gitlens's "commits by file / line" feature.

Hi. Vs code is pretty well integrated with git. There are built in git support and a couple other plugins. For example, the most popular git plugin for vs code is git lens. It also has powerful rebase editor (i guess, it is my favorite feature), which you can enable by following this guide. I personally realy enjoing Git Graph extension, which allow you to observe your git history in pretty similar to git kraken way. It also provide navigation facilities and some other useful features.