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Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?

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Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?

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Post by jmarcher »

linuxlizard wrote: post #78

Brief, the text editor, from Underware. It's still the best code editor I've ever used. Super fast, underpins written in a Lisp-y dialect (later C-ish). The ^G feature would pop up a list box listing all functions in the file and I could select where I wanted to jump to. It's still a feature I wish I had in any modern editor.

This is a common and basic feature in most modern editors. Sublime, VSCode, Emacs (with ibuffer), IntelliJ*, VIM (with ggtags?), etc.

Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?

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Post by Fnoord »

strayamaaate wrote: post #77

Norton Commander. https://bit.ly/2SBnriS Nothing since has ever made me feel so in control of my file system. There have been a few clones, but never quite hit the spot.

Which clones have you tried? MC worked well for me (TUI), as does fman (dual pane file manager for GUI).

Re: Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?

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Post by phuff »

InGodsName wrote: post #75

I want an app which let's me design webscrapping workflows visually. Then once workflow is completed, upload it to cloud and run N instances of this workflow. There was a software called SpiderClimber for this. Unfortunately, the author disappeared and software too. Edit: i want to extract ad banners from websites, think Google ads or any other ad network ads. Pop ads etc... Including redirect sequence and page's scr…

Have you seen http://helena-lang.org and Ringer? The author has been building tools for doing what you are describing I think.
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