No one has mentioned it yet, but the authors are also the ones who have created the Ingredients documentation viewer: (http://fileability.net/ingredients/). If there is integration between Chocolat and Ingredients, it could be a compelling text editor for people like me, who do iOS development.
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#32"Who doesn't like tabs?" In text editors? Me. I don't like thinking about which individual files are open. Any file under the root of my project (i.e. the editor's current working directory) is fair game for an open buffer. I treat open file as "go to class".
Emacs user.
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#33"Who doesn't like tabs?" In text editors? Me. I don't like thinking about which individual files are open. Any file under the root of my project (i.e. the editor's current working directory) is fair game for an open buffer. I treat open file as "go to class".
Emacs user.
Buffers are truly amazing - combined with powerful buffer naming patterns, it's a breeze switching between buffers blindly (included with autocomplete) and if you forget about which buffers are open it's a keystroke away to see an overview of the buffers open...
20-25 buffers open at once? Easy!
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#34Beautiful landing page, beautiful product. This looks to be an awesome editor. Can't wait.
I agree that it's a great looking looking site. But I don't see many detailed feaures. Can I ask you what you think makes this look to be an awesome editor? I am a Vim and Komodo user so I am admitedly hard to please but it seems the other new kid on the block, Sublime Text 2, offers more than Chocolat.
I can't speak directly on Vim since I don't use it much. I have only used it for very quick edits and am no "Vim power user" by any measure of the spectrum. Ever since switching to OS X, I've been using TextMate. As everyone has been assuming, TM seems to be slowly dying. With the upgrade to Lion I've come across many bugs and quirks with TextMate. Chocolat seems like it's going to be something fresh and inviting for users. Coming from TextMate, I think this will solve the need for a nice, new editor that will embrace new OS features and actually be supported.
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#35Oh look, another text editor. Just use TextMate if you're on Mac OS X. If you want something cross platform use Sublime Text, and if you want to be awesome and have a few days to customize and learn use VIM or Emacs. I use Sublime Text on my laptops and desktops and vim on my servers. It's the only editors I need for any operating system and any situation.
I love me some textmate, but the lack of split window editing makes me sad, every time I start really working in it.
Indeed. I would gladly pay $50 bucks just to be able to split windows in my textmate.
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#36Oh look, another text editor. Just use TextMate if you're on Mac OS X. If you want something cross platform use Sublime Text, and if you want to be awesome and have a few days to customize and learn use VIM or Emacs. I use Sublime Text on my laptops and desktops and vim on my servers. It's the only editors I need for any operating system and any situation.
TextMate has been acting very wonky for me on 10.7.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Emacs user.
Buffers are truly amazing - combined with powerful buffer naming patterns, it's a breeze switching between buffers blindly (included with autocomplete) and if you forget about which buffers are open it's a keystroke away to see an overview of the buffers open... 20-25 buffers open at once? Easy!
^ Ido mode user!
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#38When will somebody produce a text editor built for remote editing of text files? The vast majority of programmers that I know do all of their work on a remote build-server, and thus are relegated to using emacs, vim or some extremely ungainly combination of TextMate+FtpServer/Remote Filesystem Mount.
Could some intrepid developer create an app that would allow me to easily a) open and edit remote files b) open arbitrary terminal windows that are already ssh-ed into my build server so I can grep/find/make/whatever else I have to do. This would be the killer editor for me and most people I know, and it pains me every time I see a new editor that doesn't do this.
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#40No vim mode support?
Every time I see a new shiny text editor for mac, I'm like "meh". I would have been excited in my pre-vim days, but now? Nothing touches vim, unless it improves on vim.