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Iosevka is a nice one
Iosevka is way too thin for me. I'm going to try out Hasklig (moving from Ubuntu Mono)
Iosevka has many weights and is customizable though. Or you mean narrow?
Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support
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Why do people need git support in an editor so much? Using git from the terminal is easy and you always know what is executed because you do it manually.
I'm in the same boat as you (I'm also doing "git diff"manually from the command line before each commit). And to answer your question, probably for the same reason why people have moved on from Assembler to C to managed memory languages to JS and to today's JS frameworks, they want to avoid the "rough" parts by adding another layer of abstraction. For some people constantly going back to the terminal looks "rough", I…
Magit user here.
I am both comfortable with git on the command line and through emacs. I prefer magit mostly because of its contextual support. With the command line, each command can derive no context from the last command. With magit, it's easy to drill in and see more relevant data (or edit that data) quicker and easier.
Just wanted to point out that not everybody is merely looking for an easier experience, or one that looks prettier.
Re: Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support
#94I'd rather they integrated SFTP/SCP natively into the editor instead of having to mock with third party extensions.
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#95I'd rather they integrated SFTP/SCP natively into the editor instead of having to mock with third party extensions.
What does that have to do with ligatures?
Re: Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support
#96I'd rather they integrated SFTP/SCP natively into the editor instead of having to mock with third party extensions.
What does that have to do with ligatures?
He thinks the developers shouldn't waste time on this feature, and instead waste time on another feature that already has multiple solutions in the plugin library.
Since I don't think you would be able to do this kind of work in a plugin at all, and can clearly implement his feature in a plugin I feel like he can pound sand.
I think he just doesn't want to pay the pittance the developer of the best scp plugin wants for his work.
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#97Tangent: Any good resources to read up on typography? I feel like of all design related issues thats the one I have zero knowledge or insight on.
I learned a lot from "The Elements of Typographic Style" by Robert Bringhurst. I sometimes find it a bit hard to read casually, but there's a lot in there I enjoy absorbing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_...
My friend teaches typography at an fine arts and design school and "Elements" is the textbook. When I went to art school in the 90s it was also one of my textbooks (though it was still a relatively new book at the time). It's one of the few books that's remained on my shelf for the 20ish years since I bought it. I still reference it regularly.
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Implementing a "Built-in Terminal" mindset is what is wrong with VSCode/Atom etc. You already have a terminal emulator installed in your system, and you can tile the windows if you want a terminal right under your editor. NIH syndrome of re-implementing everything under one roof is not really required, since we are heavily utilizing desktop environments for the past couple of decades, which allows you to put separate…
> Implementing a "Built-in Terminal" mindset is what is wrong with VSCode/Atom etc. Electron is what is wrong with them -- if anything is. Built-in terminal has nothing to do with it. > NIH syndrome of re-implementing everything under one roof is not really required, since we are heavily utilizing desktop environments for the past couple of decades, which allows you to put separate applications in one screen. That's…
Terminal buffers have a long history and certainly aren't what's wrong with atom/vscode. I concur that that problem is "using a web browser as a ascii rendering engine".
I think the one thing that keeps terminal buffers out of sublime text is probably it's crossplatfomness. Seems like it would be a bit of a hairball to get right on every platform.
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Iosevka is a nice one
Iosevka is way too thin for me. I'm going to try out Hasklig (moving from Ubuntu Mono)
How long did you try it? I found I had the identical reaction to you -- that it was way too narrow, being used to much wider monospace fonts. It took me about a day to get used to it, and now I love it to death.
It's probably not the font for everyone, but I mention this because I had the same initial reaction as you, and I'm super glad I gave it a serious try.