sts-q at gemini

This is a three-minute-launch of an other gemini capsule.

Short description of programming related software that i like and use.

Hare

A systems programming language designed to be simple, stable, and robust.

harelang.gmi

Miranda

Miranda, Haskells beautifull mother.

Oberon

Writing computer programs without stackoverflow.

TR7-Scheme

An implementation of r7rs scheme in two files of C.

Joy Progamming Language

Vis editor

In search for a small and simple, yet powerfull text editor i followed a recommendation of www.suckless.org: Vis-editor as editor that rocks. So i tried it some years ago and i'm at the time of writing still with it.

It is a lot simpler than emacs and smaller than vim which results in a lot of time saved reading docs and configuring the editor.

Written in C, Vis is scriptable in lua. With a bit of lua any personal adoption is possible. Syntax highlighting is done by Lua LPeg. LPeg is powerfull but required me a lot of searching docs and learning how to do it.

The key outstanding feature is Sam's structural regular expressions. I never took the time to learn about it.

A feature that i miss is a notice about a file already opend in an other vis instance and a way to save all files of all open instances. My work around is to save file at every escape key press.

A personel win is: i am using vis on my smartphone every day for all sorts of notes taking running vis on termux. That turned out to be a great liberation from all cloud-service-apps. I can take notes without waiting for some internet syncing connection! No need to fear app updates or app vanishing. Always superfast. Backup goes via git.