Why I Wrote a Programmer's Text Editor

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Post by pgebhard » Tue, Jan 25, 2011, 9:10 PM UTC

Why I Wrote a Programmer's Text Editor
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Re: Why I Wrote a Programmer's Text Editor

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Post by kanny96 » Tue, Jan 25, 2011, 9:22 PM UTC

Interesting tale of the development of Kod, the Mac OS X code editor.

Re: Why I Wrote a Programmer's Text Editor

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Post by jjcm » Tue, Jan 25, 2011, 9:50 PM UTC

Love the chromium backend of it - I'd love it even more if it were merged with vim in a macvim-esque sort of way.

Re: Why I Wrote a Programmer's Text Editor

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Post by Derbasti » Tue, Jan 25, 2011, 9:58 PM UTC

jjcm wrote: post #3

Love the chromium backend of it - I'd love it even more if it were merged with vim in a macvim-esque sort of way.

This! Oh, this!

Re: Why I Wrote a Programmer's Text Editor

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Post by xtacy » Tue, Jan 25, 2011, 10:09 PM UTC

jjcm wrote: post #3

Love the chromium backend of it - I'd love it even more if it were merged with vim in a macvim-esque sort of way.

Emacs would be awesome too. :-)

Re: Why I Wrote a Programmer's Text Editor

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Post by jjcm » Tue, Jan 25, 2011, 10:21 PM UTC

xtacy wrote: post #5

jjcm wrote: post #3

Love the chromium backend of it - I'd love it even more if it were merged with vim in a macvim-esque sort of way.

Emacs would be awesome too. :-)

I agree. Both are amazingly powerful editors and seeing a nice/powerful GUI on top of it might make me switch over from a CLI. Time to branch this project.

Re: Why I Wrote a Programmer's Text Editor

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Post by GrooveStomp » Tue, Jan 25, 2011, 10:24 PM UTC

Look really nice. Too bad it's just OSX and as jjcm and xtacy pointed out, too bad it doesn't support vim or emacs bindings/integration in some way.

I really like your UI choices borrowing so heavily from Chrome, though. Really do... updates personal notes

Re: Why I Wrote a Programmer's Text Editor

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Post by Swizec » Tue, Jan 25, 2011, 10:27 PM UTC

I can attest to the awesomeness of both Kod and Rasmus.

Especially Rasmus, I coded up the whole indentation feature and he had to completely rewrite everything I made because of efficiency issues (I'm not that great with objC yet) and he didn't even complain.

Great guy.

Re: Why I Wrote a Programmer's Text Editor

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Post by dsadsa » Tue, Jan 25, 2011, 10:30 PM UTC

xtacy wrote: post #5

jjcm wrote: post #3

Love the chromium backend of it - I'd love it even more if it were merged with vim in a macvim-esque sort of way.

Emacs would be awesome too. :-)

I disagree. Don't mix it. Just make port for linux so normal people can use it.

Re: Why I Wrote a Programmer's Text Editor

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Post by wccrawford » Tue, Jan 25, 2011, 10:52 PM UTC

Swizec wrote: post #8

I can attest to the awesomeness of both Kod and Rasmus. Especially Rasmus, I coded up the whole indentation feature and he had to completely rewrite everything I made because of efficiency issues (I'm not that great with objC yet) and he didn't even complain. Great guy.

Don't sell yourself short. Just having a working prototype can be a god-send, no matter how inefficient.