Honest question, since you posted this yourself on HN, what is the purpose of adding a “post to HN” button at the end of the post? Do further submissions after the original count as upvotes?
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Show HN: EDI – An editor in Go
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#12I don’t see much about this idea that requires a new editor. This seems to be mainly a new terminal app, not a new editor. The only points of integration between the terminal and the editor are the E/W/L commands to manage open files and the right-click context rules.
With so little connection between the editor and the terminal, I think this project would be better off changing focus to be only a new terminal app. There is no need to reinvent the wheel by bundling an editor with it. You haven’t listed any planned features for the editor that other editors don’t already do, so by cancelling the editor portion of the project, you wouldn’t lose any features.
Your terminal could still support customizable E/W/L commands and right-click context rules – but there is no need to tie those features to any one particular editor. Instead, provide a custom configuration of the terminal that sends commands to your favorite existing editor through built-in means. Or if that integration wouldn’t be powerful enough, provide a plugin for the editor that integrates it with your new terminal. That way, users of many different editors could use your terminal.
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#13Honest question, since you posted this yourself on HN, what is the purpose of adding a “post to HN” button at the end of the post? Do further submissions after the original count as upvotes?
> Do further submissions after the original count as upvotes?
Indeed they do. However the "post to HN" button is part of his CMS design so appears at the bottom of every article entry on that site - including articles he may not have posted to HN himself.
Re: Show HN: EDI – An editor in Go
#14Old dudes like me might have a strong negative reaction to something called "EDI."
For the young dudes like me could you explain why?
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#15Old dudes like me might have a strong negative reaction to something called "EDI."
For the young dudes like me could you explain why?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_data_interchange
For the record the term is still thrown around left and right in enterprise settings.
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#17Interesting concept. Are you planning on adding a system where you can write plug-ins in Javascript or Python for example? I saw in the blog post you were looking to adding a way to extend the editor.
Yes in a future release I do plan to do so.
I would recommend against using multiple languages for the plugin interface. It just becomes a mess, the Sublime Text way of using Python and Python only for all the plugin system makes it extremely clean and extremely powerful. In your case maybe making all the plugins Go would be the way to go, It helps a lot with performance (not having to create an environment for each programming language) and the power (all the cool stuff you can do in Go).
Re: Show HN: EDI – An editor in Go
#18Interesting concept. Are you planning on adding a system where you can write plug-ins in Javascript or Python for example? I saw in the blog post you were looking to adding a way to extend the editor.
Yes in a future release I do plan to do so.
There is a javascript engine written in Go called otto so you could use that for plugins. That way people can write plugins with many languages if they wish. i.e. clojurescript, typescript ,dart, etc etc
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
For the young dudes like me could you explain why?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_data_interchange For the record the term is still thrown around left and right in enterprise settings.
US Healthcare Insurance industry relies heavily on this for... everything.
Re: Show HN: EDI – An editor in Go
#20Old dudes like me might have a strong negative reaction to something called "EDI."
Not just old dudes, in my job we have to output and ingest various EDI formats (though mostly 820) all the time dealing with financial information.