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Terminal text editors are a dead end [video]

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1 points by henning a month ago · 1 comment

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treetalker a month ago

Thesis of the video, as I understand it:

Modal text editors in the terminal, like Vim and Helix, are an evolutionary dead-end for users of non-English (non-Latin-alphabet?) keyboards because they rely on the terminal emulator to translate physical key presses, and thus they may not reliably switch away from an insert mode using a non-Latin alphabet.

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