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I'd really like to get to the point where I have a library of transformations and you can make your own interface. Already the click ui and hot keys ui call the same `insert_function` or `assign_to` functions. Adding a ui with lots of dragging or voice control should be trivial

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I’ve actually moved away from GUI controls and towards something resembling a keyboard command language. Similar in spirit to vim motions, but instead of applied to text, it’s applied to an AST.

I think that could be the key to making structured editing feel less “clunky”.

That's interesting! Do you have any of it in a public repo?

I have an older repo that briefly describes it at a high level: https://github.com/matry/editor

I've moved on to another (private) repo, but it should be shareable soon.

That's a cool idea. I think the arrow directions you chose for sibling and parent/child directions are very intuitive.

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