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How often are you in situations where you can't run the editor/IDE you want? I haven't encountered this for years except the rare times I'm forced to do some editing over SSH (which is far too low-level for server management than I'd like).
If you have to edit over SSH then you can do an sshfs mount instead. sshfs @ : ≤mountpt≥
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I think the benefit is exactly the keybindings. And the fact that it is non-modal. It works like a text field in a desktop GUI, there is almost no state. You can't mess the state up. Contrast it to vim, where I got into the habbit of bashing ESC three times to be sure I'm not in a mode. Or emacs, which is nice until it's abstractions leak, and you accidentially start editing a configurations pane or something. I am a…
Why would you leave yourself in this low practiced state? Ie you don't spend the time to become fluent, so it's always "thinking" instead of being able to just do. Incidentally you should always always leave the insert mode when you are done typing. You are never confused about state because your default is "normal mode".
> Issues: [...] Slow on single cores, Raspberry Pi A text editor that is slow on 1GHz single-core machines. What a time to be alive.
No wonder.
> Issues: [...] Slow on single cores, Raspberry Pi A text editor that is slow on 1GHz single-core machines. What a time to be alive.
I was very puzzled about that too, so I looked at the repo and... it's written in Javascript. No wonder.
Well, that explains such an extensive list of features, I guess..
> Issues: [...] Slow on single cores, Raspberry Pi A text editor that is slow on 1GHz single-core machines. What a time to be alive.
Also: A terminal-based text editor written on top of node using parts of Atom. Well, I'll give it a try if I have some time. I'm very curious what those "amazing features that make you drop Emacs" might be ;-) Edit: Actually, does anyone know what the problem with a single core might be? If it's written in Javascript, it can't be that strongly relying on concurrency, can it? Or is it just the fact that it has to shar…
> Issues: [...] Slow on single cores, Raspberry Pi A text editor that is slow on 1GHz single-core machines. What a time to be alive.
Agreed! I wish the sources of CygnusEd (Amiga) were open. Those guys nearly 30 years ago made a graphical text editor which on a 16 bit CPU clocked at 8MHz run circles around most today editors on 32/64 bit CPUs clocked over two orders of magnitude higher. Do we have to count optimization as a forgotten art, at least among non system developers?
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I was very puzzled about that too, so I looked at the repo and... it's written in Javascript. No wonder.
yeah, I clicked to the colored bar to see the distribution of languages in the repo, expecting to see C/C++ or even Pyhthon, and was shocked to see that 96.5% is javascript. Well, that explains such an extensive list of features, I guess..
> Issues: [...] Slow on single cores, Raspberry Pi A text editor that is slow on 1GHz single-core machines. What a time to be alive.
Agreed! I wish the sources of CygnusEd (Amiga) were open. Those guys nearly 30 years ago made a graphical text editor which on a 16 bit CPU clocked at 8MHz run circles around most today editors on 32/64 bit CPUs clocked over two orders of magnitude higher. Do we have to count optimization as a forgotten art, at least among non system developers?