It definitely has potential, but without tabbed windows, editing multiple files at once seems like it'll be cumbersome.
Same thought here - now even Finder has tabs!
CotEditor – Text Editor for OS X
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#12I'm pretty effective with vim, so much that other 'normal' editors like sublime & other modern gui editors make me feel a little crippled. That is a problem, because you need to be flexible about things in life. Has anyone succeeded in deliberately changing editors, even when not feeling like it's necessary? I'm especially curious how I could start using emacs, and actually get up to speed with it instead of using it…
Sublime Text has an excellent plugin called Vintageous that gives you a lot of Vim's functionality with some of the niceties of Sublime, worth a shot if you felt crippled by it.
Re: CotEditor – Text Editor for OS X
#13I'm pretty effective with vim, so much that other 'normal' editors like sublime & other modern gui editors make me feel a little crippled. That is a problem, because you need to be flexible about things in life. Has anyone succeeded in deliberately changing editors, even when not feeling like it's necessary? I'm especially curious how I could start using emacs, and actually get up to speed with it instead of using it…
It's pretty easy actually. Just get drunk one night and bash your head against a wall few times. This will make you forget all the keyboard shortcuts and you're free to learn a new text editor.
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#15Where is the most important part- plugins?
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#16> There is no complex setting files require geek knowledge. You can access all your settings incl. syntax definitions and themes from a normal preferences window.
Who is this for? This is not a feature I want.
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#17I like it. Obviously won't replace a programmer's favorite editor, but for quick things you need to write throughout the day (code or not) it's a good replacement for TextEdit.
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#18I'm pretty effective with vim, so much that other 'normal' editors like sublime & other modern gui editors make me feel a little crippled. That is a problem, because you need to be flexible about things in life. Has anyone succeeded in deliberately changing editors, even when not feeling like it's necessary? I'm especially curious how I could start using emacs, and actually get up to speed with it instead of using it…
When I first broke into web development, my editors of choice were Coda, Dreamweaver and Visual Studio (I wonder if I am dating myself here). I made a mid-career move to (non-gui) Vim, mostly out of general interest. The ramp up to Vim coming from GUI-heavy editors was a long one, but I stuck with it and it was worth it for me.
So, it's definitely possible to switch, you just have to be able to deal with that ramp up.
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#19Atom been working just fine.
Atom is strange to me, it seems like a less familiar Sublime Text with no real distinguishing features.
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#20Why the emphasis on character encodings?
The GitHub location says Japan so I'm assuming it's a personal pain-point for at least one of the developers: