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261 points david927 | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.211s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
1. shegeley ◴[] No.43160956[source]
1. Hackable text input system := Hatis https://github.com/shegeley/hatis

«Text-editors are dead as a concept. What’s needed is a text-input system. Mobile phones got it right more than 10 years ago. Both Android and iOS can catch the text-input context: «ah here we can input text, let’s show the virtual keyboard!».

This project is inspired by very same idea: catch the text-input context globally (across all system, not just one process) and do what’s needed: change the UI, keybindings, etc. Emacs got some part of text-input right with modes. But modes should be global, on Window Manager level (or even deeper).

In GUI it’s possible to “catch input context” using Wayland::InputMethod

It should also be possible on pure-tty with readline or something.

The system should be very hackable. That’s why it’s written in Common Lisp»

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