Hired: A Modern Take on 'Ed'

• add-ed

  5 12 5.9 Rust

  Embeddable ED in rust

You seem to misunderstand "freezing up on me" to be about slowness, that was a complete halt of function that occurred every so often for me despite a relatively simple emacs setup. My initial frustration resided in the complexity of emacs and vim and the many potential failure points that come from that, wherefore I looked into simpler historical editors and ended up trying out ed. (I considered vi, but decided that ed was a good first step if I went there anyways.)

I didn't blindly decide to switch to ed, I tried it out and found its commands to suit my editing methodology, the lack of keybindings to help make it work well on dvorak and the line editing workflow to save me from often manually moving my cursor "long distances". Due to how much I liked the concept I wanted to make improvements.

(I have also looked into vi but I don't quite like the cursor focused way of working it entails, and really dislike how it depends on keybindings (at least hjkl).)

Regarding why I rewrote it rather than forking the C repo you can look into my other comment that explains what I gained from it. And of course I did it because I wanted to, it's not like I'm getting paid for this.

It is well established that commits aren't a great way to judge anything, and innovation is especially hard to judge by any metric. Feel free to look at the usage documentation for add-ed https://docs.rs/add-ed/latest/add_ed/ if you wish to quickly gather some insight into the design, to base your judgement upon.

(btw, some corrections

ed arguably is a modal editor with default command mode and an input mode entered by `a` and `i` and left with either ctrl+c or a lone `.` on a line.

The hired repo has around 100 commits since it is only the syntax highlighting UI, CLI and config handling; the `ed` runtime implementation is in https://github.com/sidju/add-ed with around 200 commits.

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• hired

  6 117 6.0 Rust

  A modern take on 'ed'

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• bat

  195 46,497 9.5 Rust

  A cat(1) clone with wings.

That’s the same as bat:[1] one of the features is syntax highlighting. Kind of unexpected to find a concatenation program… which also does that.

[1] https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

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