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Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas
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#202This could be really nice on a VR headset with all the floating windows.
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#203That's a very cool concept but I don't understand how to use it. The 4 buttons above a pane (?) have no label or tooltip so I don't know what they do. Even clicking on them nothing happens, so it's not clear what the arrows, or blank paper, or the... thingy, do. The zoom control with the wheel seems wrong too, scrolling up should zoom, not dezoom. I also would like to display a single function in a pane but it doesn'…
We'll add tooltips and better/more explanatory UI soon! We rushed to get this out so there are a few rough edges unfortunately. We'll fix the Zoom controls and I'll take a look at the problems you're having with Go. Thank you for the feedback!
Looking forward to these changes!
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#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
emacs has existed for many decades already.
The whole recent crop of extendable editors (atom, vscode, zed, etc.) seem to have been created by a younger generation that never used emacs (and are perhaps scared of it because they find Lisp weird) and so are reinventing the wheel.
Have you heard about Windows? People don't even know about 'dir' anymore, they just click things with a mouse. It's horrific.
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#205how can I make the canvas color dark ...? white hurts my eyes ^^'
Just released a new version of Haystack on Mac where the canvas should match your VS Code theme!
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#206Can you have a black background? My eyes object to dark windows on a white canvas-
Just released a new version of Haystack on Mac where the canvas should match your VS Code theme!
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
We'll add tooltips and better/more explanatory UI soon! We rushed to get this out so there are a few rough edges unfortunately. We'll fix the Zoom controls and I'll take a look at the problems you're having with Go. Thank you for the feedback!
Looking forward to these changes!
Added tooltips + inverted the CMD+scroll controls!
Re: Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas
#208How is it better than the open-source CodePod IDE (https://codepod.io)?
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#209This is pretty cool! Reminds me of the now defunct SourceTrail tool: https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail Actually, seeing lines between the code and where you opened it from would most likely be useful!
Yes we were definitely inspired by SourceTrail! Will add to the feature list!
How does Haystack compare with CodePod (https://codepod.io)?
Re: Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas
#210This looks really interesting and well thought out. Nonetheless, I feel like the OS window manager should provide this kind of experience, with appropriate hooks so that an IDE can implement this sort of experience with native windows. I really liked using PaperWM¹ for a while, however, I'm still waiting for it to get more stable. Another system that is sort of similar to this concept, Pipeworld² (part of the Arcan p…
> I feel like the OS window manager should provide this kind of experience GIMP (the OSS Photoshop-style tool) had this idea for literally over a decade and eventually gave up on it because they never got it to work well.
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