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Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files?

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Re: Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files?

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Post by mhansen »

cscotta wrote: post #19
jrockway wrote: post #9

Typical designer. "Oh no, my text editor displays its status to me using text." Yeah. Some people get their eye-candy feed from lolcat videos, and then use their tools for work. (My desktop doesn't even have wobbly windows! Just a 1-px red border! How can I get any work done that way!) Also, I'm fairly certain that eproject gets rid of the "wall of text" that disqualifies Emacs. In a perl project, for example, I can…

I think your attitude is overly dismissive. At least, I'd have a hard time writing someone off as a "typical designer" (a bit of a tired stereotype) if they're experienced in both vim and emacs, let alone work for Peepcode. The author offered a sustained, reasoned argument for better navigation within projects. I agree that as a programmer, I care about functionality and tools that get out of my way so that I can get…

Look through the forks of fuzzyfinder_textmate on github - Jamis has stopped maintaining it to work with the latest FuzzyFinder, but other people are still working on their forks to keep it up to date.

Re: Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files?

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Post by technomancy »

eitland wrote: post #54

Sounds like some people still haven't learned NetBeans or Eclipse. Takes some time getting used to, -just like vim or emacs, but once you get used to the keyboard shortcuts you get everything the author asked for. No mouse needed: check, fuzzy search: check, paths: check, metadata: check, beautiful: check

Works over SSH: not so much.

Re: Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files?

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Post by vcrash »

KirinDave wrote: post #66
vcrash wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is quite the difference between a little bar of orange and a whole screenful of it.

There's also quite a difference between the orange on this site (a harsh electric orange) and the relatively mild and somewhat popular shade of orange on the article, so I think it's a wash.

I don't think that there's that much of a difference - The site starts out the same colour as the header, in fact, and fades gradually. The majority of the piece, however, is on quite bright orange.

http://omploader.org/vM3h3OA/Sample.PNG (HN topbar, start of site, middle of site, bottom of orange section of site.)

Re: Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files?

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Post by robryan »

armandososa wrote: post #39
devinj wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ?

Yes. The "user's don't scroll" meme has been confirmed as a myth.

Especially in this situation I think, when you are somewhat motivated to click the link by title. I'd hope hacker news readers at least have the patience to scroll down if they don't get instant content gratification.

Re: Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files?

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Post by justinweiss »

FlemishBeeCycle wrote: post #33
sjbach wrote: post #14

I wrote a snappy Ruby-based Vim plugin called LustyExplorer which does fuzzy/flex matching for opening files and switching buffers: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1890

Not to downplay your contributions (thank you), but just letting people know about other options: FuzzyFinder Textmate http://github.com/jamis/fuzzyfinder_textmate (Unfortunately only works with fuzzyfinder up until v2.16) and more recently Command-T http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3025

I also wrote a plugin to bring Jamis' fuzzyfinder to emacs: http://ruby-on-the-interrails.blogspot.com/2008/10/introduci...

Re: Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files?

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Post by artsrc »

technomancy wrote: post #72
eitland wrote: post #54

Sounds like some people still haven't learned NetBeans or Eclipse. Takes some time getting used to, -just like vim or emacs, but once you get used to the keyboard shortcuts you get everything the author asked for. No mouse needed: check, fuzzy search: check, paths: check, metadata: check, beautiful: check

Works over SSH: not so much.

The guy was asking for a GUI.

Re: Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files?

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Post by albemuth »

eitland wrote: post #54

Sounds like some people still haven't learned NetBeans or Eclipse. Takes some time getting used to, -just like vim or emacs, but once you get used to the keyboard shortcuts you get everything the author asked for. No mouse needed: check, fuzzy search: check, paths: check, metadata: check, beautiful: check

fuzzy search is quite lame in IDEs in my experience, maybe there are plugins I haven't heard of but the defaults are really put to shame by TM's Cmd+T

Re: Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files?

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Post by alexfarran »

btipling wrote: post #3

Am 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 readability bookmarklet is quite handy http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
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