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Re: Chocolat - the new editor

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Post by mweibel »

Skywing wrote: post #52
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 use Eclipse on all of my dev machines, for this. Eclipse runs everywhere, as far as I know. I'm able to keep the same dev setup on my Windows PC, my Macbook and anywhere else I may want. Eclipse can edit files over sftp - no drive mapping needed, etc. I've modified Eclipse to be pretty minimal. All in all it's a good setup - it's definitely not sexy or very exciting, though. I rarely ever see it mentioned but it's…

How did you setup eclipse to open files over sftp? Remote System Explorer?

I installed this one but I don't like it :/

Re: Chocolat - the new editor

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Post by mweibel »

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…

+1 for that! I would really like that feature as a major feature in some editor. The one which had that pretty good was ZDE (Zend Development Environment) 5.5 but it's buggy and pretty old now (and not maintained anymore).

I already thought about writing an own editor exclusively for that, but it's too much work to build everything from scratch imo.

Re: Chocolat - the new editor

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Post by msie »

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 guess Cyberduck falls under the TextMate+Remote Filesystem Mount category but for me, it's relatively painless. You save a file in TextMate and Cyberduck updates the file on the remote server automatically.

Re: Chocolat - the new editor

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Post by sparky »

bentlegen wrote: post #75
simplify wrote: post #50

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.

> json config files? oh yes I find JSON makes for awful config files. For the sole reason that they can't be commented.

Sublime Text 2's config files have JSON-like syntax, but allow C (/* */) and C++ (//) style comments.

Re: Chocolat - the new editor

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Post by [deleted] »

bentlegen wrote: post #75
simplify wrote: post #50

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.

> json config files? oh yes I find JSON makes for awful config files. For the sole reason that they can't be commented.

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Re: Chocolat - the new editor

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Post by simplify »

lovskogen wrote: post #74
simplify wrote: post #50

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.

Do you often switch from linux to windows for your coding environment?

I personally don't, but I know some programmers who often do.

Re: Chocolat - the new editor

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Post by guywithabike »

dcope wrote: post #36
overshard wrote: post #13

Oh 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.

See: http://blog.macromates.com/2011/lion-notes/

Re: Chocolat - the new editor

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Post by subleq »

rednaught wrote: post #21
olsonjeffery wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the programmer/IDE-dweeb's version of "well yeah.. but does it run Linux?" Only half joking; the parent's comment is exactly what I thought after searching through the feature list. It's funny how, when forced to work outside of vim, the first thing I (and at least one other person, it would seem) do is try to make the environment as vim-like as possible (with usually-mixed-to-unsatisfactory results). Eclipse…

By "not-vim-but-vim-like" do you mean modal editors?

Are there any other modal editors besides vim?

Re: Chocolat - the new editor

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Post by Cushman »

msutherl wrote: post #78
Cushman wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I love Vico. I'm not coming from a vim background, so the progressive enhancement approach really works for me. It'll be nice when it stops crashing on Lion, but hey, I haven't lost any work yet :P The only thing I really miss from TextMate is transparent backgrounds... hopefully that's coming in the future.

Just curious – why do you use Vico instead of MacVim?

Eh, I'm not committed to vim as an experience. I still like TextMate's rather point-and-click editing style, and Vico does that compellingly where MacVim... doesn't.
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