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Look out Sublime and Textmate ... here comes Brackets (stunning)

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Re: Look out Sublime and Textmate ... here comes Brackets (stunning)

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Post by zer01 »

nnq wrote: post #20

How hard would it be for someone to build and IDE (with nice code browser, refactoring and all the smart stuff... like JetBrains products) on top of or incorporating an editor like Sublime or Textmate? I'd pay an arm and leg for IDEA or PyCharm with Sublime as the text editor (or something else with multiple cursors and all the "shiny" editor stuff), and the ability to launch either the full IDE or just the editor an…

Oh man I agree whole-heartedly. Let programs do what they're already good at. PyCharm is good at managing things and being a general IDE, and Sublime is fricken awesome at editing text.

Both try to dabble in eachother's realm, but the places where they shine should be inter-operable, not combative.

Re: Look out Sublime and Textmate ... here comes Brackets (stunning)

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Post by JanezStupar »

newishuser wrote: post #12
epoxyhockey wrote: post #4

I just skimmed the long video.. The good: auto-refreshing preview of HTML page upon save The bad: no auto-end-brackets or end quotes as one types (ironic, considering the editor is named Brackets ) I am sure that the talented Adobe engineers will make this editor a major contender for Sublime and Textmate in the future, but at this point, I think the stunning attribute in the post title is a bit link-baitish. I'm loo…

The link bait was mentioning HN's 2 favorite editors. Especially since we've discussed brackets several times before: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=bra...

I always thought that HN's two favourite editors were VI and EMACS...

Re: Look out Sublime and Textmate ... here comes Brackets (stunning)

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Post by moocow01 »

I stopped at "you can edit the editor's source code in HTML/JS/CSS" For me personally, I want the best native editor I can find that makes doing my job easier/simpler - I don't want an editor that I can tinker around with its source code and accidentally shoot myself in the foot.

Re: Look out Sublime and Textmate ... here comes Brackets (stunning)

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Post by mahmoudimus »

nnq wrote: post #20

How hard would it be for someone to build and IDE (with nice code browser, refactoring and all the smart stuff... like JetBrains products) on top of or incorporating an editor like Sublime or Textmate? I'd pay an arm and leg for IDEA or PyCharm with Sublime as the text editor (or something else with multiple cursors and all the "shiny" editor stuff), and the ability to launch either the full IDE or just the editor an…

They're definitely working on it. I know the JetBrains folks are working very hard to integrate the editing systems of something like emacs / sublime into their IDE.

I'll ping @intelliyole on twitter to respond.

https://twitter.com/mahmoudimus/status/279494119431217153

Update:

For now, what I do is use an external command that pipes out the buffer to Emacs and I use Emacs to slice and dice - then I just C-c # out of Emacs and switch back to PyCharm and keep on coding.

Re: Look out Sublime and Textmate ... here comes Brackets (stunning)

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Post by btipling »

Eventually everyone's editor search ends with vim, emacs or a management position. All these editors like Sublime Text 2, Chocolat, Light IDE, Cloud9, etc fail at very basic task: sticking around. They also fail at another task: being available everywhere.

If a new decent editor shows up, it wont be shiny, it wont grab headlines on HN with a fancily designed website, it will simply grow popular slowly, be added to package managers across platforms after withstanding the test of time. The test of more than one person or just a few developing it and then moving on to something else.

With vim and emacs you're guaranteed to not be wasting your time learning their arcane ways. Long after humans have left the Earth someone will be reprogramming a couple of launch tubes on their trans-stellar space vehicle with vim. They wont be using this fluff from Adobe.

Re: Look out Sublime and Textmate ... here comes Brackets (stunning)

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Post by bdcravens »

jevin wrote: post #9

Is it me, or are they trying to hide the Brackets / Adobe relation ?

I don't think so. There's some Adobe heavyweights involved with the project.

The flipside is Twitter Bootstrap, which was never an "official" Twitter project.

https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/b95033c270af

Re: Look out Sublime and Textmate ... here comes Brackets (stunning)

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Post by epoxyhockey »

newishuser wrote: post #12
epoxyhockey wrote: post #4

I just skimmed the long video.. The good: auto-refreshing preview of HTML page upon save The bad: no auto-end-brackets or end quotes as one types (ironic, considering the editor is named Brackets ) I am sure that the talented Adobe engineers will make this editor a major contender for Sublime and Textmate in the future, but at this point, I think the stunning attribute in the post title is a bit link-baitish. I'm loo…

The link bait was mentioning HN's 2 favorite editors. Especially since we've discussed brackets several times before: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=bra...

Yes, you are correct! Egg on my face for not noticing the earlier mentions. Unfortunately for the army or Bracket promoters, substance really matters within the technical community. One can't market their way into product adoption with an inferior technical product in this community.

Re: Look out Sublime and Textmate ... here comes Brackets (stunning)

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Post by cypher543 »

moocow01 wrote: post #24

I stopped at "you can edit the editor's source code in HTML/JS/CSS" For me personally, I want the best native editor I can find that makes doing my job easier/simpler - I don't want an editor that I can tinker around with its source code and accidentally shoot myself in the foot.

If you're afraid of shooting yourself in the foot, don't edit the source code.

Re: Look out Sublime and Textmate ... here comes Brackets (stunning)

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Post by munchor »

JanezStupar wrote: post #23
newishuser wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The link bait was mentioning HN's 2 favorite editors. Especially since we've discussed brackets several times before: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=bra...

I always thought that HN's two favourite editors were VI and EMACS...

Vim and Emacs are very probably HN's two favorite editors, not sure why he said that.
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