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Post by gorbypark »

paxys wrote: post #89
hrktb wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if they have a plan to move to iPad their codebase after it’s battle tested. There’s a lack of a serious editor over there, and in particular VS Code can’t compete because of it’s business model.

> and in particular VS Code can’t compete because of it’s business model. What do you mean by that? If there was real demand for it, creating an iPad distribution for VS Code probably wouldn't be that difficult. It already runs great fully in a web browser.

VS Code is built with Electron, so making an iPad VSCode would require porting Electron to Safari (Apple doesn’t allow alternative browser engines on iOS) . That should be doable seeing as the VSCode ports to the web seem to work okayish on Safari, but it world be a pretty big undertaking.

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Post by mmm_grayons »

bkanber wrote: post #194
thamer wrote: post #163

Looks pretty, but is there really no Vim extension? I couldn't find one on the Extensions page. This is a deal-breaker for me, I can't use an editor or IDE without Vim bindings, this would kill my productivity. Is one planned, maybe?

This was the first thing I looked for too. Perhaps one is planned or perhaps they're counting on the community to write one using their API. TBH the only feature I truly use JetBrains for is their Cmd+Click to jump to definition, otherwise I'd be happy sticking with tmux+vim as IDE (as I did for about a decade).

Wouldn't g ctrl+] work for jumping to definition with a tags file?

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Post by themacguffinman »

thisisblurry wrote: post #151
spiralganglion wrote: post #73

I see a lot of folks here comparing this to VS Code and asking "Why would I use this instead?" — I am exactly on the opposite side of that equation. Why would I use VS Code when I can use this? I've been using Atom for most of the decade (plus a bit of Sublime, and TextMate before), and I've loved being able to hack it to look and feel exactly how I want. There's a ton of custom CSS in my setup. Now, Atom is slow. Th…

> Well, Atom is no longer supported, so I'm going to have to switch to something anyway. Is there an official source or announcement for this? I've noticed that recent release notes and changelogs have become much less substantial, but I've yet to see anything indicating that it's approaching EOL.

There isn't an official announcement but I wouldn't wait for one. The lack of updates coupled with the fact that Microsoft now owns GitHub indicates a very high likelihood that Atom development is practically dead.

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Post by cassepipe »

tym0 wrote: post #118
cassepipe wrote: post #88

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Provided you swapped ESC and Caps Lock, yes, I fully agree. setxkbmap -option caps:swapescape

inoremap kj

Wow, ok, never thought of that as a possible hack. Relying on the fact you won't ever use the kj combination. I'll keep that in the back of my head thanks.

Re: Nova by Panic

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Post by dcow »

bkanber wrote: post #194
thamer wrote: post #163

Looks pretty, but is there really no Vim extension? I couldn't find one on the Extensions page. This is a deal-breaker for me, I can't use an editor or IDE without Vim bindings, this would kill my productivity. Is one planned, maybe?

This was the first thing I looked for too. Perhaps one is planned or perhaps they're counting on the community to write one using their API. TBH the only feature I truly use JetBrains for is their Cmd+Click to jump to definition, otherwise I'd be happy sticking with tmux+vim as IDE (as I did for about a decade).

VIM can do this with a language server plugin now. It’s super refreshing to have compiler errors and symbol navigation inside native vim. Come back!

Re: Nova by Panic

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Post by mmm_grayons »

vkoskiv wrote: post #193

Lovely looking editor with a bunch of features, but they seemingly forgot to include support for something as ubiquitous as C? That's kind of a weird omission. I'll be following the development of this, but for now I'm not playing with it much further.

Yeah, I was confused by that; I believe there's LSP support, but no C/C++ support is a deal-breaker for a lot of people.

Re: Nova by Panic

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Post by sushisource »

mmm_grayons wrote: post #212
bkanber wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was the first thing I looked for too. Perhaps one is planned or perhaps they're counting on the community to write one using their API. TBH the only feature I truly use JetBrains for is their Cmd+Click to jump to definition, otherwise I'd be happy sticking with tmux+vim as IDE (as I did for about a decade).

Wouldn't g ctrl+] work for jumping to definition with a tags file?

Not to speak for parent comment, but the reason I use vim plugins in JetBrains IDEs is to have all that shit "just work". Yeah, you can setup stuff to autogen tags, but it's not always reliable. If you care about other IDE features (I do) then the list of crap you need to do to get vim/nvim to work properly piles up endlessly. I'll take the IDE with it's nice appearance and features and slap the keybindings in any day over the reverse.

Re: Nova by Panic

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Post by biztos »

I'll definitely give it a try but it seems very web-dev-centric at first glance.

There is a "preliminary alpha" Go extension for example, but there is first-class support for... FTP.

It took me a few minutes to notice the magical sometimes-visible "download" link but now I have the trial, and I hope it's as useful as it is pretty!

Re: Nova by Panic

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Post by gruez »

TAForObvReasons wrote: post #42
TylerE wrote: post #30

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intellij is functionally the same. Buying a subscription gets you one year updates, and then whatever that last version is remains functional forever.

There was some confusion, and I'm not sure if they changed policy, but IntelliJ gave you a perpetual license for the version on the day you purchased it, not the last version at the end of the support contract

Why is this being downvoted? He’s right.

> When purchasing an annual subscription, you will immediately get a perpetual fallback license for the exact version available at the time.

https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...

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