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Re: Lapce – Fast open-source code editor

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Post by reacharavindh »

dzhou121 wrote: post #41

Author here. Thanks for all the feedback. I'm aware that Lapce lacks lots of basic stuff. It's a personal project so the initial set of features and key bindings are tight to my personal preferences. I'm currently working on the missing pieces, like multi cursor support(in master but not released yet), mouse support, sane default key bindings(probably I'll stick to an existing editor), basic UX etc. Feel free to subm…

It is refreshing to see a new code editor, even with minimal set of features that feels fresh and fast. Thanks for putting it out there. Please please please keep that responsive experience and don't trade it off for a full set of features that will make this tool lose its charm and become just the same as the rest of the powerful tools.

Re: Lapce – Fast open-source code editor

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Post by pjmlp »

thejosh wrote: post #34
woile wrote: post #8

It looks really promising. I wonder why code editors have the file explorer on the left side by default, if you resize it you move the whole text (unless you write in a right-to-left language). A colleague made me aware of this a while ago and I cannot stop wondering. I moved it to the right ever since.

I think that Visual Studio has it on the right hand side by default, but that's the only editor I can think of that does it.

Nowadays, Visual Studio on the old days had it on the left by default.

Actually I don't remember any longer when they changed, maybe VS 2010 WPF rewrite.

Re: Lapce – Fast open-source code editor

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Post by chimen »

pkolaczk wrote: post #46
chimen wrote: post #40

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Sublime success shows people do need those 0.01 seconds saved (well, actually it is often not just 0.01 seconds, but a lot more - VS Code is sometimes laggy and that's really annoying).

Sublime got completely destroyed in a single year by...an electron app (VSCODE). Chew on that. While at it I'm going to let you know why: features, open platform, plugins, ecosystem and integration. I've been a Sublime user and now I don't even have it installed any more. They share the same fate with TextMate.

Re: Lapce – Fast open-source code editor

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Post by dzhou121 »

reacharavindh wrote: post #51
dzhou121 wrote: post #41

Author here. Thanks for all the feedback. I'm aware that Lapce lacks lots of basic stuff. It's a personal project so the initial set of features and key bindings are tight to my personal preferences. I'm currently working on the missing pieces, like multi cursor support(in master but not released yet), mouse support, sane default key bindings(probably I'll stick to an existing editor), basic UX etc. Feel free to subm…

It is refreshing to see a new code editor, even with minimal set of features that feels fresh and fast. Thanks for putting it out there. Please please please keep that responsive experience and don't trade it off for a full set of features that will make this tool lose its charm and become just the same as the rest of the powerful tools.

Thanks for your kind words.

It will, it's in the DNA. L comes before P.

Re: Lapce – Fast open-source code editor

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Post by Yoric »

chimen wrote: post #53
pkolaczk wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sublime success shows people do need those 0.01 seconds saved (well, actually it is often not just 0.01 seconds, but a lot more - VS Code is sometimes laggy and that's really annoying).

Sublime got completely destroyed in a single year by...an electron app (VSCODE). Chew on that. While at it I'm going to let you know why: features, open platform, plugins, ecosystem and integration. I've been a Sublime user and now I don't even have it installed any more. They share the same fate with TextMate.

On the other hand, VSCode won largely by being much faster than most of the competition.

Anyway, the author wanted to write a desktop app in Rust. What's the issue with that? A few years ago, we'd have the same but "written in JS", "written in Ruby", "written in Python", ... I agree that it's more important for the author than for the end-users, of course.

Re: Lapce – Fast open-source code editor

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Post by theredpilldeal »

woile wrote: post #8

It looks really promising. I wonder why code editors have the file explorer on the left side by default, if you resize it you move the whole text (unless you write in a right-to-left language). A colleague made me aware of this a while ago and I cannot stop wondering. I moved it to the right ever since.

This is a valid point. File explorer is not something that is used very frequently so moving it to the right makes sense.

> I moved it to the right ever since.

What text editor are you using?

Re: Lapce – Fast open-source code editor

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Post by marcus_cemes »

Great work already! I do have one nitpick, however. Instead of handling click events, it seems to be using a more direct mouse input and acting on the mouse button being pressed. In webpages, this is the difference between onmousedown and onclick events.

This is extremely frustrating, perhaps it was done to give the illusion of speed, or it's a side-effect of the immaturity of the GUI framework? If you click and hold on the tab close button on your browser, and then move your mouse away and depress the button, you have the possibility to abort the action.

Another side effect of this seems to be that the GUI does not respond to presses from a touchscreen (on laptops), which does not behave like a mouse input, but still fires click events that most applications happily accept.

Re: Lapce – Fast open-source code editor

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Post by brainwipe »

dzhou121 wrote: post #41

Author here. Thanks for all the feedback. I'm aware that Lapce lacks lots of basic stuff. It's a personal project so the initial set of features and key bindings are tight to my personal preferences. I'm currently working on the missing pieces, like multi cursor support(in master but not released yet), mouse support, sane default key bindings(probably I'll stick to an existing editor), basic UX etc. Feel free to subm…

Extremely impressive for a personal project! Great job, if it were mine, I'd be exceptionally proud of it.

I think the heat you're getting here is from the very slick website that makes Lapce look more finished than it is. It might be a good idea to adjust the text to manage people's expectations.

Great job!

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