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Re: Vico Editor (Mac text editor)

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Post by oemera »

akent wrote: post #106

I agree with Mark Pilgrim: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/01/21/wrongroom Here's the basic problem: you're writing a text editor. Stop doing that. It's 2007. Saying to yourself "I'm gonna build my own text editor" is as silly as saying "I'm gonna build my own build system" or "I'm gonna build my own amusement park."

While you are right at some point I don't think that it would all good if people would stop creating better software.

It's what makes the human being stupid and at the same time a genius: Always trying to make something better (even if you know you can't). Otherwise we wouldn't have lower consumption cars, color TVs and so on, right?

Re: Vico Editor (Mac text editor)

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Post by tvon »

growt wrote: post #132

If you use peepopen ( http://peepcode.com/products/peepopen ) put this line in your keys.nu (inside the app bundle): (nmap map:" " to:"!!open 'peepopen:///path/to/your/code/folder?editor=vico'; return true; ") ctrl-a will then open peepopen and the selected file will be opened in vico.

I've been debating peepopen but without a trial/demo of some sort I haven't really been willing to dive in. Would you say it's worth it for a vim user?

(edit: never mind, I went ahead and got it)

Re: Vico Editor (Mac text editor)

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Post by electrum »

fbuilesv wrote: post #21

Am I the only person who thinks that tabs don't scale in editors used for programming? I tend to have a lot of files opened at the same time (currently at 143 in Emacs) and I can quickly switch to any of these with a couple of keystrokes. Most of the Textmate users I've seen don't even care about the tabs in the editor, they just press Cmd-T and type the name of the file. Is people doing something else with tabs that…

I really like the IntelliJ model:

* no explicit saves: files automatically autosave

* the editor keeps a max of N tabs open using least-recently-used

* browser-like navigation by clicking into symbols combined with forward/back history

The autosave part was weird at first, but it makes so much sense. Why bother with explicit saving, prompting "do you want to save", manually closing tabs, etc. Combined with the navigation features, you never care which tabs are open. Edit history plus version control are much better than a simple save/discard model.

Re: Vico Editor (Mac text editor)

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Post by unfletch »

jarin wrote: post #20
beck5 wrote: post #3

This could be very good, I am still trying to find my perfect editor Vim's learning curve & interface means occasionally I just open up sublimeText2/TextMate. Great to see split views are there from the start.

I don't want to take anything away from Vico (because so far it is pretty rad), but if you stick with MacVim you eventually start using TextMate less and less until you just stop altogether. For me, it took a good 3 months or so. The last holdout was using TextMate for formatting JSON output, but I found a Chrome plugin for that.

I have this simple json formatting alias defined:

    alias json='python -mjson.tool'
I'm not much of a vi/vim/macvim user, but I bet you could pipe an open json document through that command pretty easily right in the editor.

Re: Vico Editor (Mac text editor)

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Post by thaumaturgy »

daxelrod wrote: post #118
thaumaturgy wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sweet! I'm completely unfamiliar with Ruby, which I think is half the problem (edit: and git/github, which is probably the other half). If there's a different file(s) to download for that fork, I can't find them -- everything in the github project seems to link back to https://gist.github.com/323731 , which is the Intel build (edit: e.g., the Readme.md file). I tried replacing my copy of brew with https://github.com/…

Here's what I did: First, get the latest version of Xcode that's compatible with your OS. You can find older versions of Xcode by clicking on "Developer Tools" on the right side of this page: http://connect.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MemberSite.woa/w... (you may need a free Apple developer account). sceaga has a branch for Tiger and another branch for PPC, I happened to be using Tiger on PPC, so I picked the Tiger…

You were my favorite non-girlfriend-or-business-partner person today!

I had a busy day so I didn't get to try this out until just now. Somehow, despite staring at the github project page and clicking on everything that I thought was clickable and grinding my teeth in frustration, I never noticed the "Downloads" button. So now I feel like an idiot, but I'm an idiot with a working homebrew. Thank you. :-)

Re: Vico Editor (Mac text editor)

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Post by zem »

dasil003 wrote: post #109
wyclif wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://wastm2released.com/ MacroMates totally dropped the ball. What a shame. Everybody was suing TextMate, everyone was talking about it a few years ago, and they didn't capitalise on that.

Tagentially: I'm so sick of that meme. All I can think of is someone spending $10 a year to think they are cleverer than they actually are.

"Intangibles are the most honest merchandise anyone can sell. They are always worth whatever you are willing to pay for them and they never wear out." -- Heinlein, "The Man Who Sold the Moon"

Re: Vico Editor (Mac text editor)

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Post by selbar »

fbuilesv wrote: post #21

Am I the only person who thinks that tabs don't scale in editors used for programming? I tend to have a lot of files opened at the same time (currently at 143 in Emacs) and I can quickly switch to any of these with a couple of keystrokes. Most of the Textmate users I've seen don't even care about the tabs in the editor, they just press Cmd-T and type the name of the file. Is people doing something else with tabs that…

just admit you're a fucking moron and move on...
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