Lapce Editor 0.3

I wonder whether it's achievable to have a plugin system similar to how web extensions work where you could write a plugin and have it work across different editors. I see how getting people to move to this editor might depend on people moving over once a sufficient amount of their current editor's features are supported, some of which might be contributed by extensions.

Awesome, this looks like an editor I&#x27;ve wanted to have for a while. I&#x27;ll definitely be trying it out.<p>Basically it seems to take the good parts from a few other editors and combines them:<p>It&#x27;s like VSCode, but without the bloat of electron or Microsoft&#x27;s telemetry.<p>It&#x27;s like sublime text, but it&#x27;s open source and has first class LSP support.<p>It&#x27;s like Neovim, but it doesn&#x27;t require downloading and configuring a bunch of mystery meat plugins just to get what have been table stakes editor features for decades.

Definetly a project I&#x27;m keeping my eyes on.<p>The &quot;killer feature&quot; will be the plugin&#x2F;extension support. Vscode got where its now mostly because of how extendable it is imo.

It&#x27;s great but unfortunately the lack of line wrapping[1] has actively prevented me using it.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lapce&#x2F;lapce&#x2F;issues&#x2F;945">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lapce&#x2F;lapce&#x2F;issues&#x2F;945</a>

Related. Others?<p><i>Lapce Editor, Release v0.2.0</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32714191">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32714191</a> - Sept 2022 (40 comments)<p><i>Lapce – Fast open-source code editor</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30708505">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30708505</a> - March 2022 (224 comments)<p><i>Show HN: Lapce – open-source code editor inspired by Xi-editor</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30526693">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30526693</a> - March 2022 (2 comments)<p><i>Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29549173">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29549173</a> - Dec 2021 (145 comments)

I’ve really liked Lapce for the past 3&#x2F;4 months I’ve used it, but there’s been a persistent issue that keeps me going back to Lite XL. Pasting huge blocks of text, think 80,000 characters long, breaks it to the point of not being able to open the same file again in the editor. Lite XL doesn’t care and it’s wicked fast with edge cases like that. If Lapce could manage that better, it would be my go to.

&gt; Rewrote in FloemUI<p>Just had a look at this. It&#x27;s one of the few that doesn&#x27;t use jsx-like macros, an major anti-feature in my opinion. The jsx stuff looks fancy, but it completely breaks Rust Analyzer. You might not care about code completion, but good luck resolving the complex type+lifetime issues (that UIs in Rust often have) without hover type.<p>Kudos for showing scope discipline, that&#x27;s one I will be keeping an eye on.

I&#x27;ve been using this the last year for navigating larger code bases where my usual terminal editor falls a bit short because this looks clean and minimal but has all the IDE navigation features like file system trees and LSP functionality. It&#x27;s a cool project, and it might be getting to the point where it can be used as the main code editor for a project.

Still not sure what the &quot;killer feature&quot; here is. Is there even one? Or is it just &quot;something like vs code but in Rust and faster and slicker&quot;?<p>I&#x27;d give it a try, but I am very happy using Helix, which is pretty novel in its own right.

Code folding is still not supported. It&#x27;s a dealbreaker for me <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lapce&#x2F;lapce&#x2F;issues&#x2F;749">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lapce&#x2F;lapce&#x2F;issues&#x2F;749</a>

I could definitely give this a shot, looks clean as hell. Does it support Ruby?

I first thought “Another editor, we don’t need that…” but this one actually gets everything even more right than neovim! Plugins on WASM, written entirely in Rust, renders via wgpu, built in Remote Development. Only thing missing is an official built-in package manager, to avoid the mistake neovim did. A non-barebones VSCode like out-of-the-box configuration would be the cherry on top.

I&#x27;ve been keeping an eye on this one. This holds the most promise of replacing vscode for me. Right now, Kate is more mature and stable at the moment. But I think once it gets further along it&#x27;ll definitely kick the pants off of the other options.<p>I&#x27;ve tried Lite XL and CudeText and they are both hard to set up and fall far short of Kate and Lapce in terms of UI.

Would it be feasible to implement a TUI&#x2F;ncurses mode over the same editor backend and feature set? Think something like the FreePascal TUI IDE, or the Oberon TUI that made HN a couple days ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38240333">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38240333</a>

Looks better than last time I checked. I like the idea and it&#x27;s getting there.

The preview image shows intellisense covering up 80% of the code with irrelevant suggestions and a compiler error verbosely complaining about code in progress. That much distraction should have a very small visual indicator at the point of focus, just enough to hint the action required to expand if it is actually relevant.

Tried it. Not bad actually, can&#x27;t see the type annotations from the Rust lsp though. I see one warning so I imagine annotations are at least partially supported.<p>Also I can&#x27;t jump to my jumped-from point when pressing &quot;go to definition&quot; via Ctrl+T when using vim bindings.

&gt; #2190: Rewrite with Floem UI<p>Oh, does it means that it&#x27;s moving back to wgpu after its earlier switch to OpenGL? Does it means that the problems that were encountered earlier with wgpu has been resolved?

It feels extremely fast if you compare with vscode, also it looks like it is already usable for some projects, need more time to see if there&#x27;s some deal breaker for an early adoption.

Looks promising, but not usable for me atm, formatting doesn&#x27;t seem to work and i also don&#x27;t find any support for eslint.

weird font rendering on non-retina windows makes this unusable for me.

Promising project, but keyboard internationalization is a mess. It&#x27;s unusable for those using non-English keyboard layouts.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lapce&#x2F;lapce&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2244">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lapce&#x2F;lapce&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2244</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lapce&#x2F;lapce&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1094">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lapce&#x2F;lapce&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1094</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lapce&#x2F;lapce&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1689">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lapce&#x2F;lapce&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1689</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lapce&#x2F;lapce&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2731">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lapce&#x2F;lapce&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2731</a>

I want an &quot;I&#x27;m adult&quot; switch, which will stop bombing me with popups until I press Tab (for completion) or F1 (for help).<p>It&#x27;s unusable, because it distracts on almost every keypress with popups, type hints, and additional characters inserted. Sometimes, these popups even block the CODE I working on. It similar to browsing without an ad-blocker.<p>I want a helpful and predictable editor, not a kaleidoscope. I don&#x27;t want to think &quot;hey, what happened?&quot; after a key press.

Syntax highlighting? Aaaaaand... it&#x27;s gone!