I think comparison list with other editors gives good introduction about what to expect from ox, For any terminal text editor comparison with vim, emacs is inevitable. It is good to know authors opinions.
- Vim: they took away "being a keyboard-only editor" (every CLI/TUI text editor?) and "being able to act just like an IDE after some configuration" (most programmer text editors?). Also, "being a keyboard-only editor" isn't even accurate for vim, it totally supports mouse input even in a terminal: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Using_the_mouse_for_Vim_in_an_xt...
- Emacs: they took away "a configuration system where you can change the colours and appearance of the editor"... This is adequately discussed elsewhere in the thread.
Therefore, gp's analogy of taking away wheels and tires from Ferrari is apt.
I’m not really sure what to think of everyone being so negative here.
You can build an impressive car without pointlessly referencing Ferrari.
Yes, after reading how the author described vim and emacs, I knew this project was not for me.
It looks like someone has never read the vim manual.
So vim both only provides basic text editing functionality and is harder to use than Ox?
Vim has a special "insert mode" in which the keyboard is repurposed for entering text. I don't think that's a very hard concept to grasp.
It's entirely unclear what niche this editor is aiming for. If it's a replacement for the editors it claims as inspiration it's not going to succeed.