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Pulsar, the best code editor since Atom

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Re: Pulsar, the best code editor since Atom

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Post by antiframe »

> While both of these [Emacs and vim] can probably compete with Pulsar in number of extensions available and the amount of customizations and keyboard shortcuts, neither of them have a graphical user interface, and they are completely incapable of doing things like showing images or, for example, a Markdown preview (which by the way you can open in Pulsar by pressing Ctrl+Shift+M).

Claiming that Emacs has limited customization, no GUi, and can't display images tells me they've not used Emacs and probably shouldn't be making any claims without fact checking them. Really colors how I read the rest of their pitch.

Re: Pulsar, the best code editor since Atom

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Post by rtpg »

notnmeyer wrote: post #9

> I know several world class programmers, and interestingly, the commonality among them is that they all seem to use Vim as their code editor. Many people I know who think of themselves as world class programmers use Emacs. haha, shots fired!

Evil mode giving you Vim macros, combined with Elisp as a real programming language.... ooh now that's some fun IDE a la carte-ing

Re: Pulsar, the best code editor since Atom

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Post by GalaxyNova »

antiframe wrote: post #31

> While both of these [Emacs and vim] can probably compete with Pulsar in number of extensions available and the amount of customizations and keyboard shortcuts, neither of them have a graphical user interface, and they are completely incapable of doing things like showing images or, for example, a Markdown preview (which by the way you can open in Pulsar by pressing Ctrl+Shift+M). Claiming that Emacs has limited cus…

Also nowadays there's a few GUI frontends for Neovim such as Neovide.

Re: Pulsar, the best code editor since Atom

#34

Post by umvi »

notnmeyer wrote: post #9

> I know several world class programmers, and interestingly, the commonality among them is that they all seem to use Vim as their code editor. Many people I know who think of themselves as world class programmers use Emacs. haha, shots fired!

And then you have Linus Torvalds who uses nano

Re: Pulsar, the best code editor since Atom

#35

Post by antiframe »

GalaxyNova wrote: post #33
antiframe wrote: post #31

> While both of these [Emacs and vim] can probably compete with Pulsar in number of extensions available and the amount of customizations and keyboard shortcuts, neither of them have a graphical user interface, and they are completely incapable of doing things like showing images or, for example, a Markdown preview (which by the way you can open in Pulsar by pressing Ctrl+Shift+M). Claiming that Emacs has limited cus…

Also nowadays there's a few GUI frontends for Neovim such as Neovide.

See, I didn't know that. But, I wouldn't go around claiming it either. Especially if I was making that claim to disparage a competor to my product.

Re: Pulsar, the best code editor since Atom

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Post by gkhartman »

doctor_eval wrote: post #28
notnmeyer wrote: post #9

> I know several world class programmers, and interestingly, the commonality among them is that they all seem to use Vim as their code editor. Many people I know who think of themselves as world class programmers use Emacs. haha, shots fired!

Right? The greats all used ed.

Nah, programmers of that caliber will use a magnetized needle directly on the hard disk platters.

Re: Pulsar, the best code editor since Atom

#37

Post by 2143 »

idle_zealot wrote: post #13
bwhaley wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, as a vim user, modes are completely fine and I do not believe that modes slow me down. I’m not sure why the author is so insistent on this point.

Intuitively having to press more keys in order to accomplish an action sounds like it would be slower than a single key combo. Of course this fails to account for the fact that pressing something like Option+Fn+Backspace to forward-delete a word is far more awkward than f-d and therefore takes longer.

TIL Option+Fn+Delete can forward-delete a word! Thanks!

Re: Pulsar, the best code editor since Atom

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Post by logicprog »

notnmeyer wrote: post #9

> I know several world class programmers, and interestingly, the commonality among them is that they all seem to use Vim as their code editor. Many people I know who think of themselves as world class programmers use Emacs. haha, shots fired!

Considering how confidently utterly wrong the author of this article seems to be about Vim and to an even more substantial degree Emacs, I'm not inclined to put much stock in this as an insight.
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