A new Light Table experience

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Post by falava » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 4:25 PM UTC

A new Light Table experience
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Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by Raphael_Amiard » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 4:39 PM UTC

It is absolutely gorgeous, but it is also looking a lot more like a traditional text editor from what i can gather.

I'll download and play with it a bit anyway, to see what i get from it.

Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by fdb » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 4:43 PM UTC

There's something weird going on when using the trackpad on OS X. My trackpad is set to "natural scrolling", but if I scroll really fast the editor seems to scroll in the other direction.

Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by ibdknox » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 4:44 PM UTC

Raphael_Amiard wrote: post #2

It is absolutely gorgeous, but it is also looking a lot more like a traditional text editor from what i can gather. I'll download and play with it a bit anyway, to see what i get from it.

It is, but that's because we have to have a solid editing experience for the "simple" stuff before we can do the more interesting things. What good is it to have these awesome function oriented editors when you can't even modify a file efficiently? :)

We use tabs as a simple way of wrapping up a context. In the future they will include all sorts of neat things - and they aren't limited in any way. If we want, we can drop an infinite canvas into one, or a codex (a document made of many parts of different files). So yes, right now we wanted something beautiful and efficient to use while live coding, but as I said in my bit about 0.4.0, the really interesting semantic-oriented stuff (functions and the like) is what's next!

Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by amckenna » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 4:45 PM UTC

I know python support is planned, but will it be integrated alpha/beta or will we have to wait until after the 1.0 release?

Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by dpick » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 4:48 PM UTC

Stack Size Exceeded when trying to open a ~3500 line clojure app :(.

Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by shuma » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 4:49 PM UTC

Which languages does it support?

Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by ibdknox » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 4:50 PM UTC

dpick wrote: post #6

Stack Size Exceeded when trying to open a ~3500 line clojure app :(.

a ~3500 line file? What do you mean by open? Could you put up an issue [1] with a bit more information so we can track it down?

[1]: https://github.com/Kodowa/Light-Table-Playground/issues

Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by ibdknox » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 4:52 PM UTC

fdb wrote: post #3

There's something weird going on when using the trackpad on OS X. My trackpad is set to "natural scrolling", but if I scroll really fast the editor seems to scroll in the other direction.

I think that might be a bug in CodeMirror[1], does it happen consistently? I'll see what I can track down.

[1]: http://codemirror.net/

Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by ibdknox » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 4:52 PM UTC

shuma wrote: post #7

Which languages does it support?

It's a general editor and can open most things out there, however the eval stuff is limited to Clojure, ClojureScript, JavaScript, and CSS.