Chalsed

Pronounced KAL-SED

The Lisp Editor.

Goals

• Code and Data orientation
• Extensibility via libraries
• Steno Integration
• Lightweight and Tiny

Beliefs

• Editors should not be text-based.
• Editors are too large.
• Plugins are bad.

Editor Complexities

• Plugins in not giving the user control over their output, and being largely buffer-based and stateful
• Text
• Breakage and Inconsistency

Code Editing

In a text editor, you have a text cursor that you move around your text file to make text actions and text motions to modify the text that makes up your code.

Code is overwhelmingly comprised of collections, not text (even if your language doesn’t make that obvious), we should be working at that level.

Code is constrained. Text and data are not really constrained, you need something beyond this. Linters are not the anwser, you need semantic coding editing capabilities.

Code is constrained. Text is not constrained, even data is largely not constrained, You need semantic code editing capabilities.

Spreadsheets, Notes, Diagrams

Who actually writes code?