On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Jens Petersen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have been testing Yi once in a while in the last months/year and > here are a few comments from a user perspective: > > * vim > - why not just make the vim mode the default one? (it seems more of > the developers are using and working on vim)
I'd rather stay "neutral". Also I have long dreamed of "better" keybindings that would be the default for Yi, picking vim as default feels like giving up on this. Plus, it should be really easy to create a yi-vim if you want. > * gtk > - I haven't tested current head but it would be wonderful if the gtk > frontend could be made to work properly (recently when I tested it > again it still locks up very quickly with just a little editing) I > guess not many using it? Yeah, gtk is effectively not supported. > * emacs > - help (C-h) is needed for emacs > - self-insertion in dired is ugly (I started the other night reading > code to try to work out how to implement a sparser base keymap) Fair points, but not so trivial to fix properly. I'd like to have a generic "widget" system to implement dired, darcs-mode, etc. Hacking the buffer state as it's done now is really ugly. > * minibuffer > - minibuffer text should be simplified: drop all the haskell char > quotes and list brackets What do you mean? > * config > - really wish there was runtime loading of config and customization - > HConf is not really attractive IMHO Doesn't "reload" give you satisfaction? > and it does not play well with > distro packaging What do you mean? > * C-z out of vty tends to leave the terminal in white on cyan? yep, but not consistently. > * pango > - the pango frontend is still experimental I guess, but the defaults > don't seem good to me Correct. > Sorry, I did not check the issue tracker or mail archives to see if > any of items are already noted. I can probably do that based on any > replies to this post... That would be great. > Probably the vim mode is better, but the emacs one is still far from > the production quality of Emacs. I have implemented all features I need... If people wish to improve I'd be glad to help, but I have little motivation to implement stuff I don't need. Of course you can also try to convince me that I need more features :) > Yes, I know patches are welcome... I will try to find time to > contribute something this year, but it is going to be a busy one > already. I have long dreamed of a fine "Emacs" in Haskell, it feels > like so close and yet so far. I do wish this project will continue to > flourish! :) Thanks! -- JP --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Yi development mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/yi-devel -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
