searched the "family tree" page for aurora [https://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Aurora] but sadly it seems to have died without issue
TextEditors.org – A website about every known software Text Editor
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great to hear someone other than myself is interested in an all software site. I started working on a site for that in December after getting fed up with the number of times I've looked for a program to do X, not finding it, starting to build it myself, only to stumble across a random HN comment two months later that links to a program that solves the problem better than I ever could. I'd really like a resource that…
This used to be freshmeat.net, which rebranded to freecode.org and immediately died. It was an heirarchical directory of software, classified by category, user interface, UI toolkit, license, implementation language, operating system support... I often wonder what happened to that database. It would be a great thing to revive. "I want an ncurses text editor that runs on linux and has a permissive license" or "I want…
Thank you for this!
I think the information architecture is going to easily be the hardest part of this project.
This really gives me some food for thought
... Or I guess I could throw some LLM RAG nonsense on it and see what happens
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#13Where is https://fsnot.es?
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#14Did Carmack really use Emacs? Hadn’t read that anywhere else.
I think I heard he used LucidEmacs at around the time of Doom.
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#15Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan, Bjarne Stroustrup, and Rob Pike used[1] sam.
Linus Torvalds used a variant of MicroEmacs that is non-extensible and has non-standard keybindings.
Bryan Cantrill used Vim without syntax highlighting.
What this tells me is that what matters is what you write and whether you finish it, not what you write it in.
[1] Past tense because things might have changed.
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#16There is a good thread about vi on HN from a few years ago. I think the subject was OpenVi.
I compile nvi as a static binary. At 2.1M, that's enough complexity for me in a text editor. I still use ed every day, non-interactively.
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#17Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan, Bjarne Stroustrup, and Rob Pike used[1] sam. Linus Torvalds used a variant of MicroEmacs that is non-extensible and has non-standard keybindings. Bryan Cantrill used Vim without syntax highlighting. What this tells me is that what matters is what you write and whether you finish it, not what you write it in. [1] Past tense because things might have changed.
Considering the code I have up in the next i3 workspace right now, I think it's safe to use the present tense for me with respect to vim -- and with respect to not using syntax highlighting.
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#18Where is https://fsnot.es ?
it is a wiki
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#19"Kuned" missing. Full name "Kunnallistiedon Editori". From 1973, perhaps. For PDP-11 and CP/M. It mostly solved issues regarding "ÄÖÅ"-characters on anglo-made TTY and video terminals. Most functions were the same as in Wordstar.
-- In 1972, 300 municipalities in Finland founded common datacenter named "Kunnallistieto".
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#20Is there a site with very detailed feature comparison of text editors?