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Re: Chocolat - the new editor

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Post by rednaught »

mrmaddog wrote: post #38

When 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 arbitr…

I'm not sure how well "relegated" is going to go over here since Vim and Emacs are considered by many the best editors.

If you're on a Gnome-flavored Linux, then many "lesser" editors can use GVFS to remotely work on files.

Re: Chocolat - the new editor

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Post by mechanical_fish »

mrmaddog wrote: post #38

When 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 arbitr…

Emacs has Tramp, which gives you (a), and one of the emacs terminal modes can do (b) if you write the requisite script (which I estimate at two lines) and bind it to a key.

You'll find these documented right next to C-x M-c M-butterfly. ;)

Though in practice I find that (a) once you know emacs it's usually just as easy to shell into the remote machine and run emacs there, so I myself have yet to really get the hang of Tramp and (b) the vanilla Terminal app plus a properly set-up .sshconfig goes a long way.

Re: Chocolat - the new editor

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Post by inportb »

mrmaddog wrote: post #38

When 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 arbitr…

http://ace.ajax.org/ seems to be built for remote editing of text files. Your other desired features could be built around it.

Re: Chocolat - the new editor

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Post by shurane »

rednaught wrote: post #41
mrmaddog wrote: post #38

When 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 arbitr…

I'm not sure how well "relegated" is going to go over here since Vim and Emacs are considered by many the best editors. If you're on a Gnome-flavored Linux, then many "lesser" editors can use GVFS to remotely work on files.

does sshfs count, either?

Re: Chocolat - the new editor

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Post by fedd »

i sometimes need to use the split window to show me 2 or 3 code chunks that are sequential, so that they scroll together.

i mean, not 3 different, distant parts of a document, but like one longer part of a document, where a core function with several recursions and nested loops is defined, in many lines, and i want to see them all.

usually i print them out and then inspect.

is there any editor to do this? maybe chocolat will?..

Re: Chocolat - the new editor

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Post by tedkalaw »

Cushman wrote: post #16
chrishenn wrote: post #9

A actively developed and quality casual editor for mac would be great. Textmate is still awesome, but it's getting stale on the innovation side. I can't say I've given Vico a try, but it isn't free ($40). And Kod looked great too, but it's stuck on version 0.0.3. Then again these aren't completely valid complaints. Vim is as great as ever, even though you aren't seeing any shiny big and innovative releases. Perhaps C…

Vico is a good contender for TextMate 2, but it's still pretty buggy for something he charges money for. Chocolat looks more like a contender for TextMate 1 to me... less Vim bindings? I'll probably skip it.

I purchased Vico and haven't regretted it yet. I'll be pleased when the Lion bugs get sorted out.

I've also wanted to love Textmate but can't give up my vim commands.

Re: Chocolat - the new editor

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Post by davidedicillo »

mrmaddog wrote: post #38

When 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 arbitr…

Did you look at Coda?

Re: Chocolat - the new editor

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Post by inportb »

rednaught wrote: post #41
mrmaddog wrote: post #38

When 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 arbitr…

I'm not sure how well "relegated" is going to go over here since Vim and Emacs are considered by many the best editors. If you're on a Gnome-flavored Linux, then many "lesser" editors can use GVFS to remotely work on files.

KDE tools can also work with remote data, using KIO slaves :3

Re: Chocolat - the new editor

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Post by simplify »

Anyone who thinks this is cool should check out Sublime Text 2. It has all these features and much more (json config files? oh yes).

Also, it's cross-platform; learn once, use everywhere.

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