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Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Post by csmattryder »

aroman wrote: post #3

holy cow this thing has like 70 repositories! And I found a screenshot... looks very much like sublime text: https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/1424/1228569/cce6eb26-27a6... edit: based on this[1], it looks like this is a GitHub-aware/integrated text editor that targets both desktop (Mac, at least) and web [1] https://gist.github.com/elcuervo/eb68883f233baf5a46c8

This looks pretty cool, there seems to be Vim shortcuts [1] and even theming. Judging from your screenshot, Solarized Dark is the default theme?

But I'd have to wait until its release (or beta, should I be so lucky!) to consider moving from standard vim editor and Solarized in my Xresources.

[1] https://github.com/atom/vim-mode

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Post by netghost »

jitl wrote: post #10

What sets this apart from the other WebKit-based text editors, LightTable and Brackets? In general it seems like there's been an explosion of new text editors with this style since TextMate went into hibernation around 2008. It's great to have options, but there's lots of these TextMate clones now.

TextMate is still alive: https://github.com/textmate/textmate

But to your main point, I would assume this has really really really good github integration...

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Post by 1qaz2wsx3edc »

aroman wrote: post #3

holy cow this thing has like 70 repositories! And I found a screenshot... looks very much like sublime text: https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/1424/1228569/cce6eb26-27a6... edit: based on this[1], it looks like this is a GitHub-aware/integrated text editor that targets both desktop (Mac, at least) and web [1] https://gist.github.com/elcuervo/eb68883f233baf5a46c8

And it's totally gonna be awesome. I'm fairly confident they built it around node-webkit or another wrapper, perhaps in browser, I'm not sure.

What's important is that it's a text editor on top of web technologies. I was poking around doing the same a couple months back, brackets has been doing it for even longer. It's honestly sorely needed because of the amount of expression one can put into due to it's technological stack. An open, compile-less, hot-reloading editor sounds like a dream coming true.

I'm excited for it.

It also appears to be built around react, so that's really cool as well. And the code is simply great.

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Post by georgecalm »

Pretty crazy! Here are a few interesting plugins in there already:

  - vim-mode
  - fuzzy-finder
  - emmet (aka Zen Coding)
  - solarized-dark-syntax (heh)
  - snippets (check)
  - language-* (check; so many; awesome)
  - timecop (tracking where time is spent in the editor)
  - editor-stats (graph your mouse / keyboard activitiy)
  - ...

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Post by thinxer »

reustle wrote: post #7
aroman wrote: post #3

holy cow this thing has like 70 repositories! And I found a screenshot... looks very much like sublime text: https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/1424/1228569/cce6eb26-27a6... edit: based on this[1], it looks like this is a GitHub-aware/integrated text editor that targets both desktop (Mac, at least) and web [1] https://gist.github.com/elcuervo/eb68883f233baf5a46c8

Some more screenshots * https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/671378/2265086/c6897dba-9e... * https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/671378/2265022/bb148a20-9e... * https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/2988/1796891/85e69ff2-6a93... (animated gif) * https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/671378/2241795/ba4827d8-9c... * https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/671378/2241819/f8418cb8-9c... * https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/671378/2241519/04…

Seems like to be a Sublime Text clone in webkit?
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