<story><title>TKE: Modern Tcl/Tk-based text editor</title><url>http://tke.sourceforge.net/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Anonymous4C54D6</author><text>So, Hackernews, here is what I want you to do. Create a website with &amp;quot;solve this with your editor&amp;quot; challenges where everybody can upload screencasts and compete. :)&lt;p&gt;An obvious metric would be &amp;#x2F;time to completion&amp;#x2F; but I would also be interested to see &amp;#x2F;can be done with mouse only while drinking coffee&amp;#x2F; or in general &amp;#x2F;can be done one-handed&amp;#x2F;, &amp;#x2F;can be done left handed&amp;#x2F; (so the mouse is free) or maybe &amp;#x2F;keystrokes+clicks&amp;#x2F; instead of general timing because it takes the typing speed out of it. Some metric that measures how many shortcuts you have to memorize would be great, too.&lt;p&gt;Now somebody go and do it! :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nurettin</author><text>Vim will win, and everyone will keep on using VSCode&amp;#x2F;Idea</text></comment>
<story><title>TKE: Modern Tcl/Tk-based text editor</title><url>http://tke.sourceforge.net/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Anonymous4C54D6</author><text>So, Hackernews, here is what I want you to do. Create a website with &amp;quot;solve this with your editor&amp;quot; challenges where everybody can upload screencasts and compete. :)&lt;p&gt;An obvious metric would be &amp;#x2F;time to completion&amp;#x2F; but I would also be interested to see &amp;#x2F;can be done with mouse only while drinking coffee&amp;#x2F; or in general &amp;#x2F;can be done one-handed&amp;#x2F;, &amp;#x2F;can be done left handed&amp;#x2F; (so the mouse is free) or maybe &amp;#x2F;keystrokes+clicks&amp;#x2F; instead of general timing because it takes the typing speed out of it. Some metric that measures how many shortcuts you have to memorize would be great, too.&lt;p&gt;Now somebody go and do it! :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>boomlinde</author><text>There is a very large margin between time I spend considering the solution to a problem and the time I then spend writing it, so my main consideration with an editor is ergonomics. For example, if I can do a change without moving my hands off the home row in 20 seconds, that&amp;#x27;s better than a 5 second change that involves alternating between the keyboard and the mouse.</text></comment>