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haneboxx commented on Show HN: Open-source Markdown research tool written in Rust – Ekphos github.com/hanebox/ekphos... · Posted by u/haneboxx

sanufar · 2 months ago

Wow, looks really nice, and the README’s super comprehensive. I don’t know if I missed it or not, but do you support inter-note link navigation (like Obsidian WikiLinks)? I know markdown-oxide did this with LSP actions, but I’d love to know more about your plans for navigation/lsp-like features, if any

haneboxx · 2 months ago

Thanks!! WikiLinks feature will be dropping today, as for LSP is currently on consideration :)

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sroerick · 2 months ago

Beautiful

I'm too far down the org roam rabbit hole to ever come out but... If you get org support give me a holler. Looks really nice

haneboxx · 2 months ago

Thanks! tbh, I've never heard about org-roam, probably because of the Emacs thing, I've never really used Emacs. I'll look into it :)

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LordDragonfang · 2 months ago

So you say it's inspired by Obsidian (and call it an "alternative") but notably missing from your table of syntax support are [[wikilinks]], which for many (I would guess most) users would prevent this from being a drop-in replacement, even for just viewing a vault. Is there a reason you chose not to support them?

haneboxx · 2 months ago

Yes, internal links will be introduced in the next version along with other features like standard theming and more. Ekphos is currently in a rapid development stage and is slowly reaching core markdown feature parity with Obsidian. Feel free to open a discussion in the gitHub repo for things that would be nice to add to Ekphos :)

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ktallett · 2 months ago

It is very pretty but curious if there are any advantages over Obsidian?

haneboxx · 2 months ago

Feature wise, not all will be implemented due to the limitations of a terminal user interface, but it has upsides in performance and being lightweight, plus native nvim keybindings for nvim users

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c4kar · 2 months ago

looks promising but i prefer nvim instead of learning a new tool.

haneboxx · 2 months ago

Ekphos uses Neovim keybindings btw :)

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wek · 2 months ago

A paragraph or two on your motivation for this and the benefits of this approach would be helpful. Thanks!

haneboxx · 2 months ago

Yeah sure :) The motivation is actually really that simple. I was searching for a markdown editor similar to Obsidian with a terminal user interface, but I couldn't find any that really fit the needs of a proper markdown tool like Obsidian. Though Ekphos isn't yet reaching what Obsidian is capable of, we're surely getting closer and closer. But I want to take only what really matters from Obsidian, so it doesn't get bloated and people can really focus on writing the markdown

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bebna · 2 months ago

Why not (n)vim or emacs and some plugins?

haneboxx · 2 months ago

I was thinking a plugin wouldn't be sufficient for extending it beyond a regular markdown editor, so I went for a full standalone app instead for better upgradeability, optimization, etc.

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