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Finally Skyrim weather. 🥳
On my way to having windows and mouse support:
https://movq.de/v/95bbbbd3e8/basic-windows.mp4
It would be cool to have something like Turbo Vision eventually.
(I considered just using Turbo Vision, but it’s a C++ library and that’s not quite what I’m looking for. But it’s not yet completely off the table.)
Well, you girls and guys are making cool things, and I have some progress to show as well. 😅
https://movq.de/v/c0408a80b1/movwin.mp4
Scrolling widgets appears to work now. This is (mostly) Unicode-aware: Note how emojis like “😅” are double-width “characters” and the widget system knows this. It doesn’t try to place a “😅” in a location where there’s only one cell available.
Same goes for that weird “ä” thingie, which is actually “a” followed by U+0308 (a combining diacritic). Python itself thinks of this as two “characters”, but they only occupy one cell on the screen. (Assuming your terminal supports this …)
This library does the heavy Unicode lifting: https://github.com/jquast/wcwidth (Take a look at its implementation to learn how horrible Unicode and human languages are.)
The program itself looks like this, it’s a proper widget hierarchy:
https://movq.de/v/1d155106e2/s.png
(There is no input handling yet, hence some things are hardwired for the moment.)
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Question to my fellow Vimers: Which snippet insertion mechanism are you using or can you (not) recommend?
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Well, I used SnipMate years ago (until 2012). IIRC, it’s more than just “insert a bit of text here”, it can also jump to the correct next location(s) and stuff like that. Don’t remember why I stopped using it.
Then I used nothing for a long time. Just before Christmas, I made my own plugin (… of course …), which does everything I need at the moment (and nothing more).
It can insert simple templates and then jump to the next location:
https://movq.de/v/67cdf7c827/sisni%2Dpython.mp4
And replace a string after insertion:
https://movq.de/v/67cdf7c827/sisni%2Dheader.mp4
(It’s not public (yet?) and it also uses vim9script, so I guess it wouldn’t work on your system.)
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My little toy operating system from last year runs in 16-bit Real Mode (like DOS). Since I’ve recently figured out how to switch to 64-bit Long Mode right after BIOS boot, I now have a little program that performs this switch on my toy OS. It will load and run any x86-64 program, assuming it’s freestanding, a flat binary, and small enough (< 128 KiB code, only uses the first 2 MiB of memory).
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Seeing this run on real hardware is so satisfying, even if it’s just a small example. 😅
My little toy operating system from last year runs in 16-bit Real Mode (like DOS). Since I’ve recently figured out how to switch to 64-bit Long Mode right after BIOS boot, I now have a little program that performs this switch on my toy OS. It will load and run any x86-64 program, assuming it’s freestanding, a flat binary, and small enough (< 128 KiB code, only uses the first 2 MiB of memory).
Here I’m running a little C program (compiled using normal GCC, no Watcom trickery):
https://movq.de/v/b27ced6dcb/los86%2D64.mp4
https://movq.de/v/b27ced6dcb/c.png
Next steps could include:
- Use Rust instead of C for that 64-bit program?
- Provide interrupt service routines. (At the moment, it just keeps interrupts disabled.)
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@lyse Thanks. 😅 (Do I say that? The WM can’t answer. 🤣)
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Oh, that’s cute: https://movq.de/v/046fb6ee70/s.png DuckDuckGo puts a little helmet on the duck when you search for Skyrim. (Katria is a Skyrim character.)
Mastodon has a “Wrapstodon 2025” now, showing you a “wrap up” of the year. Of course, a pointless funny shitpost was my most “successful” post in 2025. 😂
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Wow, @movq, so many tables. No idea what I expected (I'm totally clueless on this low-level stuff), but that was quite an interesting surprise to me. https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-12-21/0/POSTING-en.html
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I was surprised by that as well. 😅 I thought these were features that you can use, but no, you must do all this.
By the way, I now fixed the issue that I mentioned at the end and it works on the netbook now. 🥳
https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-12-21/0/netbook.jpg
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H… Ho… How have I not heard about vim-tagbar before? 😳
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, well, given that I didn’t need this for such a long time, it’s probably not an essential tool. 😅
I’ve often wanted to have an outline of text documents, though, and tagbar/ctags can do that as well:
https://movq.de/v/3c6d1a13d6/tagbar-md.png
https://movq.de/v/abc58e6d66/tagbar-latex.png
This isn’t as powerful as the “Navigator” tool in StarOffice/LibreOffice (which can be used to rearrange the document), but still pretty useful:
https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2024-05-23/0/so31.mp4