Suggestion for configuration language

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Hello! Actually, I'm long-time neovim user and not using helix as my main editor. I just want to suggest another configuration language for helix editor called KDL Document Language. Briefly, it is like XML but very human-friendly.

There is perfect application example - niri which is wayland window manager that uses KDL for its configuration. I believe it would also be a good match for Helix.

What do you think?

[rauletaveras]

As far as I know, Helix has decided to go with a Steel-based configuration system to replace TOML (#10389), so perhaps suggesting other config languages at this point is unfruitful. On a personal note, I should try some project that uses KDL, because I've read the docs over and over again and I can't for the life of me understand its syntax, lol

[5721309]

So to configure text editor one should learn scheme.. I believe that any configuration of any system is a tree of nodes, that optionally have references. That is what xml and kdl are for. Learning KDL takes literally 10 minutes, just by looking at some example config. And it actually feels like creating XML tree. Scripting/plugin functionality can be implemented separately in some high-level language or simply in Rust. And each plugin's configuration schema could be merged into main schema of helix when plugin loads.

Anyway, that is how I would prefer to do it. Does this approach have disadvantages?