Removing the editor from Xlog

[emad-elsaid]

After a small Twitter thread with Shao. I started to question the idea that Xlog has an editor built in.

I found some issues with supporting the editor:

• I went to great length and wasted a lot of effort trying to support this editor.
• Javascript Markdown editors are useless (take a look at the one we're using right now on Github).
• There are many great desktop editors. and the audience of Xlog are probably programmers that are used Vim/Emacs/VScode

Does it make sense to have the editor built in Xlog at all? Anything other than Notion level editor wouldn't be sufficient

Issues with removing the editor:

• Maybe some users are already using it. do I have to split it to a plugin and disable it by default?
• Editing a page means we'll have to switch to my editor, save, and come back to the browser? should I have the edit button run $EDITOR filename.md to invoke the default editor? if the default editor is vim or any terminal app, should xlog launch a new terminal? for me that's not a problem as I use emacsclient which signals the currently running emacs to open the file, but not all editors works that way