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Re: Textadept: fast, minimalist, and Lua-extensible cross-platform text editor

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Post by adiM » Tue, Nov 20, 2012, 2:59 AM UTC

johncoltrane wrote: post #79

adiM wrote: post #73

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Images are useful if you are authoring a math heavy document (and don't want to go back and forth between a previewer and the editor). See http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/img/preview-screenshot.pn... for an example.

Well, I would use another — more suited — tool than a text editor for that kind of task. A word processor, for example.

I guess this is a difference in philosophy. I prefer to use a te t editor for editing all types of text: code, emails, tex markup, HTML markup, etc. Hence, for me, a text editor is better than a word processor. But I do like the convenience of not having to go back and forth between a previewer (PDF reader) and the text editor, and therefore like the fact that emacs allows embedding of imaging. (Not to mention the fact that none of the word processors can beat TeX output in terms of quality and flexibility)

Re: Textadept: fast, minimalist, and Lua-extensible cross-platform text editor

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Post by irahul » Tue, Nov 20, 2012, 6:21 AM UTC

TallboyOne wrote: post #80

irahul wrote: post #37

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>> It's not vim. That alone will be a selling point for a vast majority. > I didn't realize a vast majority were nincompoops. I am a long time vim user. Where do I get in line for obtaining my free-with-vim pretentiousness and douchbagginess? Or it doesn't come with Vim and it's just you?

At least you found the line for cant see when someone's being facetious.

> At least you found the line for cant see when someone's being facetious

You are a fucking asshole.

Ha, ha. Just kidding. You just don't get my flippant sense of humor.

Sorry. This doesn't work for me. Being facetious is different from being a jerk.

Re: Textadept: fast, minimalist, and Lua-extensible cross-platform text editor

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Post by dualogy » Thu, Nov 22, 2012, 3:51 PM UTC

SeanDav wrote: post #72

dualogy wrote: post #53

OK, so I find Sublime Text 2 extremely perfect for my needs... now how does this thing beat pure perfection? ;)

I tried using Sublime Text 2 but it has no ability to toggle automatic updating of changed files, unlike Notepad++ for example.

Yeah it does auto-update changed files by default, but you can enable the option to highlight unsaved files more prominently (should be on by default really) so such cases for me always show up on my radar immediately. And then a simple Ctrl+Z reverts the file to whatever was in that editor-buffer beforehand.