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Re: Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

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Post by matthewhartmans »

jiggawatts wrote: post #191

One thing that has mystified me is all these people talking about text editor responsiveness, whether it feels "snappy" or not. What are they talking about!? I mean that as someone who has grown up with 3D shooters and is obsessive about tuning networks to the lowest possible ping times to improve latency for competitive gaming. I always turn triple buffering off because I can definitely feel the difference over doub…

This is a thing man.

I'm running a Pentium powered notebook and VS Code runs like a dog.

Another factor to consider is you might be running other things in parallel to editing your files (terminal watching and compiling code, a web browser for viewing output, etc).

Re: Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

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Post by JSavageOne »

jiggawatts wrote: post #191

One thing that has mystified me is all these people talking about text editor responsiveness, whether it feels "snappy" or not. What are they talking about!? I mean that as someone who has grown up with 3D shooters and is obsessive about tuning networks to the lowest possible ping times to improve latency for competitive gaming. I always turn triple buffering off because I can definitely feel the difference over doub…

The difference in "snappiness" between Sublime Text and VS Code is extremely noticeable. The startup time in particular is substantially slower on VS Code (not just on the initial startup but also upon loading new windows)

The reason I still use VS Code is because the additional features for coding make it worth the unfortunate performance cost, but whenever I'm just working with basic markdown files I always go to something like Sublime.

Re: Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

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Post by bArray »

jiggawatts wrote: post #191

One thing that has mystified me is all these people talking about text editor responsiveness, whether it feels "snappy" or not. What are they talking about!? I mean that as someone who has grown up with 3D shooters and is obsessive about tuning networks to the lowest possible ping times to improve latency for competitive gaming. I always turn triple buffering off because I can definitely feel the difference over doub…

> What are they talking about!?

You're missing the point with refresh rate, you could make the slowest implementation in the Universe have a snappy UI thread.

> What is this mysterious difficulty people have with editing

> ~100KB text files!?

Most editors will open the entire file into RAM, which is not such a problem unless is starts trying to index everything for searching, colourizing everything, etc, etc. What feels like a great feature for ~10kB source files starts to chomp away at CPU and RAM for some file >1MB as your editor tries to find patterns in some binary file.

> I mean, seriously: I'm playing Doom Eternal at 4K with a

> constant 60fps, no dips. That game is processing a decent

> chunk of a terabyte per second of data at that rate.

That's quite the powerful machine you have. Consider many people will operate with laptops and some of them are low-power, high battery life. Also consider that many will not just be doing that one thing. I know quite a few people now doing serious dev work from tablets... (They use build servers.)

Also, just because you do have the latest processor available doesn't mean that I expect a simple text editor to consume everything it has.

Re: Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

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Post by mythz »

Was a bit skeptical, but this is surprisingly fast & lite & supports multi-tab + tree view + syntax highlighting in a 1mb download. I've not seen any of the reported issues with the font which looks clean & crisp (on Win 10).

I'm not expecting it to have any of the features I'm used to with VS Code or JetBrains products, but it's definitely going to replace notepad.exe for a fast look at any text file.

Supports `lite ` to open any file/folder, e.g. `lite .` opens up the current folder in a tree view with beautiful dark mode by default, single click on each file loads it instantly. Seeing beautiful, matte-style syntax highlighting for all popular formats I've tried: .html, .css, .js, .md.

Perfect minimal distraction-free editor for writing docs.

Re: Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

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Post by konsumer »

eyelidlessness wrote: post #76
rxi wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not even that: SDL just provides a pixel buffer, the application draws everything itself per-pixel. Lite uses a technique I refer to as "cached software rendering" which allows the application code to be written as if it's doing a fullscreen-redrawn when it wants to update, the renderer cache (rencache.c) then works out which regions actually need to be redrawn at the end of the frame and redraws only those. You can…

Sounds like the pixel grid equivalent of a "virtual DOM"?

I think this is correct, like in the sense that react uses a VDom. When you make changes, you sort of pretend that you are changing everything, but the rendering engine figures out the differences to the real DOM, based on the in-memory changes, and makes minimal edits to it. This is why you can use react with all kinds of things that aren't DOM or even web-related (react-native, react-blessed, react-babylonjs, etc.) I contributed to react-blessed & react-babylonjs, and wrote the main chunk of react-babylonjs's current fiber system. You essentially just use the VDOm to describe the full graph, and that graph doesn't have to be DOM at all.

Re: Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

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Post by pradeepchhetri »

fareesh wrote: post #106

I would really like something as simple as windows notepad which syncs to my devices, where the app is equally simple. A no frills fulltext search feature would be nice too. I currently use Google Keep, which is incredibly slow

Have you tried Notion(https://www.notion.so/)?
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