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That's much better, thanks.

> The evidently misguided assumption was that whoever uses it will need to tweak it anyhow, so might as well read it through. As I wrote - it’s very close to throwaway code.

Even if that assumption is true for part of the potential users, they would appreciate a starting point, you know.

Now I have bookmarked it and will check it out at one point.

If you ever figure you want to invest some more effort into it: try make it into an LSP server so it can integrate with LSP Code Actions directly.



Thanks, hopefully it will be of any use and not too buggy ! (It was a classic “worked on my machine for my needs”, but I would be very suspicious of the autogenerated code being 100% bug-free).

I looked shortly at LSP but never had experience with it, and it looked very overwhelming… (and given that I generally use vi, it seemed like a bit too much overhead to also start using a different editor or learn integrations - which I looked at but they seemed a bit unsatisfying).

As a result this exercise got me into an entirely worse kind of shiny: writing my own TUI editor, with a function/type being the unit of editing rather than file. facepalm.

probably entirely worthless exercise, but it is a ton of fun and that is what matters for now ! :-)


Well, you can at least check out Zed and Helix first? Many people say they work perfectly for them and that they are simpler than both Emacs and [Neo]vim.

LSP Code Actions is super neat though. You can have a compiler error or a warning and when your cursor is positioned on it (inside the editor) you can invoke LSP Code Actions and have changes offered to you with a preview, then you can just agree to it and boom, it's done.

Obviously this might be too much work or too tedious for a hobby project, but it's good for you to know what's out there and how it's used. I don't use LSP Code Actions too often but find them invaluable when I do.


I had looked at Zed, but it’s a GUI, and I would rather stay inside a terminal for a variety of reasons. Helix I didn’t try though…

It might be a bit closer to what I am after, so I will definitely give it a try even if as a source of inspiration for my reinvention of bicycle !

Thanks a lot !




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