Comment by chatmasta
2 years ago
I also like this. But I don't like the distraction of seeing all the blocks below my cursor move every time I make a new line.
The perfect UX would be to add a new buffer at the top, but with enough padding to fill the window so that you can't see the movement of previous blocks while you're typing.
(Maybe this is already kinda how it works - I haven't downloaded the app yet, but I'm excited to try it, because it looks great!)
I wrote a small Ruby TUI which works like this called Rodo (Ruby Todos). Pressing CTRL+t will get you a new Todo list (it's just markdown) at the top of a file.
https://github.com/coezbek/rodo
>I don't like the distraction of seeing all the blocks below my cursor move every time I make a new line.
Uhm... They don't move. They stay the same distance, relative to your line. As you add more lines, they'll disappear below the fold.
In a regular doc, if you start typing at the beginning, then all the lines after it move down as you type. It's just the movement I find distracting, compared to appending to a doc with no space below where I'm inserting text. I'd rather feel like I'm typing into empty space rather than up against a wall.