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I always wonder why I learned emacs over vim. There is never support for it.
Because when you learn elisp, it runs circles around vim.
Yay, the original Holy War!
(vi, for the record)
GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter
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Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter
#112Looks amazing, but why CoffeeScript?
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#113A text editor in a browser? There seems a lot of excitement about it but I can't work out why - can anyone explain? I'm not trying to be argumentative; I really am curious! It's for editing text and there appears to be massive excitement about it....?
I for one use my own web-based version control system and project management. If there was a good web-based texteditor that is 100% vim compatible, I could stop switching between a browser and a shell.
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#114A text editor in a browser? There seems a lot of excitement about it but I can't work out why - can anyone explain? I'm not trying to be argumentative; I really am curious! It's for editing text and there appears to be massive excitement about it....?
I for one use my own web-based version control system and project management. If there was a good web-based texteditor that is 100% vim compatible, I could stop switching between a browser and a shell.
What sort of stuff do you work on? Do you use a web based editor to modify stuff locally or is it for web based stuff hosted the other side of the world?
I always SSH'd into boxes and edited stuff there if necessary, or had a local copy to work on using "normal" editors and synced it. But now I'm writing C++ so I am blessed with good IDEs so perhaps that is why I am missing the excitement over a text editor?
Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter
#115All of the competition can only be good for us developers. This, ST3, Light Table, Brackets, etc. Bring on the text editor wars!
Add LIVEditor [ http://liveditor.com ], although it's single-purpose is for css, html and js only. It uses Webkit too, but for live preview of css and html changes only, like the real-time effects you can see with Firebug or Dev Tools.
The videos on your site don't load for me. I've turned off ad blocks...
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#116holy 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…
Some more...
* https://atom.io/assets/screenshot-main@2x-e0b7c5a0be2ef13348...
* https://atom.io/assets/screenshot-native-web@2x-2842562f4757...
The second seems to confirm this being web based.
Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter
#117holy 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
> it looks like this is a GitHub-aware/integrated text editor that targets both desktop (Mac, at least) and web
I can confirm, from looking at the code.
It uses CSS / LESS for highlighting, and CoffeeScript for client-side programming (eg, the fuzzy completion[0], or the autocompletion).
The surprising part is that the editor doesn't seem to be a fork of either Ace or CodeMirror, the two big guys in the field. The highlighters (ie, syntax files) are in CSON. Ace is probably the closest, but it uses a completely different structure[2].
A negative impact of that is the low number of syntax files. However, there seems to be a 1-to-1 equivalence to tmLanguage (TextMate) syntax files[3].
[0]: https://github.com/atom/fuzzaldrin/blob/master/src/filter.co...
[1]: https://github.com/atom/language-toml/blob/master/grammars/t...
[2]: https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/blob/master/lib/ace/mode/asci...
[3]: https://github.com/textmate/toml.tmbundle/blob/master/Syntax...
Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter
#118They're on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AtomEditor found the link in the Source Code of: http://blog.atom.io/
It also has the line: "At GitHub, we’re building the text editor we’ve always wanted: hackable to the core, but approachable on the first day without ever touching a config file. We can’t wait to see what you build with it."
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#119I really can't wait for this to be released. I am a little pessimistic about the Vim mode. There are countless 80 or 90% complete Vim modes in various modern editors. But the absence of a truly native feeling Vim (that last 10%) is a deal breaker for many. I'd rather see more editor developers spend time finding a solution that provides a truly authentic Vim mode instead of spending countless hours merely approaching…
What really bugs me are Vim modes that don't allow you to easily add new keybindings that abstract combinations of keystrokes, i.e. map . For instance, I love to bind "s" to "go into insert mode, insert one character, exit insert mode". I feel crippled without this binding, but making it happen in Sublime 3 with Vintageous is daunting. It involves understanding the Sublime API and constructing some complex block of c…
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Maybe an announcement that git bought sublime and this is the web launch of it. I would be so excited if that happened.
The ST builds mysteriously stopped recently (ST3 beta and dev), which is a bit ominous.
ST development have presumably been stopped numerous times so nothing new about that. Atom have been in the works for at least six months.