Am I the only one who almost didn't scroll down, thinking that the keyboard graphic was the thing to see?
Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files?
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#22Am I the only one that found staring at orange hard on the eyes? I guess I should give the author credit for all the work that they put into this rant, seems like a blog post could have done just the same without all the fancy graphics and what not.
If you happen to be on a mac, control-option-command-8 is your friend. Also, the readability bookmarklet does wonders for the appearance of sites like these. (And thanks to the people on HN who originally introduced me to these)
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#23One solution:
Use fewer files. I try to keep the number of files and folders for a project to as few as possible.
Then you spend much less time opening and searching for files. As more people get involved with a project, you'll have more files, but you should make an active effort to keep the numbers minimized.
Here's a little script I wrote to give quick stats on a project's size:
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#24Am I the only one that found staring at orange hard on the eyes? I guess I should give the author credit for all the work that they put into this rant, seems like a blog post could have done just the same without all the fancy graphics and what not.
If you happen to be on a mac, control-option-command-8 is your friend. Also, the readability bookmarklet does wonders for the appearance of sites like these. (And thanks to the people on HN who originally introduced me to these)
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#25Am I the only one that found staring at orange hard on the eyes? I guess I should give the author credit for all the work that they put into this rant, seems like a blog post could have done just the same without all the fancy graphics and what not.
If you happen to be on a mac, control-option-command-8 is your friend. Also, the readability bookmarklet does wonders for the appearance of sites like these. (And thanks to the people on HN who originally introduced me to these)
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#26Command-T is a relatively new Vim plugin that does fuzzy matching on the entire path, giving greater weight to characters immediately following slashes or other word separators in the pathname. I've been using it for a few days now and can attest that it is extremely fast and seems to "know" exactly which file I want after just a few keystrokes.
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3025 | http://github.com/wincent/Command-T
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#27Am I the only one who almost didn't scroll down, thinking that the keyboard graphic was the thing to see?
No. It's a terrible webpage design.
Am I the only one who still values things like http://www.useit.com/alertbox/scrolling-attention.html ?
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#28Am I the only one that found staring at orange hard on the eyes? I guess I should give the author credit for all the work that they put into this rant, seems like a blog post could have done just the same without all the fancy graphics and what not.
Agreed. I gave up even trying to read it. My eyes still hurt. :-(
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#29My favourite text editor still has to be Notepad++ on Windows. I've never found another (both for Windows or Linux) that was as snappy and simple. shrug (never quite "got" emacs - it reminds me of the crappy, buggy, horrid PIC IDE we used at uni)
I also use Notepad++ and like it a lot. It keeps things simple and just works. One of the coolest features is if you change a file anywhere, the changes are automatically reflected in the opened buffer.
I use Total Commander for opening files: http://www.ghisler.com/
Emacs and vim fill me with rage every time I try to use them. And I definitely prefer several small tools to a big, monolithic IDE.
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#30Am I the only one that found staring at orange hard on the eyes? I guess I should give the author credit for all the work that they put into this rant, seems like a blog post could have done just the same without all the fancy graphics and what not.
The site and the god awful grid background image (appears on doubleclick) was enough to inspire me to make a new bookmarklet.
My first impression, article aside, was that the site made baby Jesus cry.
Edit: In retrospect I think it was the combination of the orange and the grid background (I have a tendency to doubleclick on everything) that really put it over the edge for me, the main design isn't terrible.