Will this support Linux? I would love to try this on my Linux System. (Ubuntu, to be specific)
looks like it is built on node-webkit so probably yes.
where did you find that out? just curious
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#122I saw this. I have a lot of respect for Githubbers and Github but is Node really the language for a text editor? My text editor that's built natively to my OS often struggles, let alone if it's Node. Seems like they're shoehorning the wrong technology.
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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 technologic…
> An open, compile-less, hot-reloading editor sounds like a dream coming true. You're talking about Emacs, right? This actually seems really exciting, and I'll give it a whirl when and if I can. It's just funny to see people (the Light Table fans as well) rediscover what Emacs users already knew - modifying your editor in-place is really awesome .
You're talking about Emacs, right?
Over the last 18 years, I've tried to figure Emacs out a few times, but it always ends up baffling me. It may be as powerful as you say, but given how obtuse I am (or perhaps how terrible Emacs is), I'll never know.
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#124I 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…
> For instance, I love to bind "s" to "go into insert mode, insert one character, exit insert mode".
Doesn't that already exist, by hitting 'r'?
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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?
I work on web based stuff on the other side of the world.
I edit code in vim in screen in ssh.
Used many IDEs in the past, but settled on pure vim.
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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…
I love the edit markers in the last screenshot. But too skeptical about the performance of a text editor running in webkit. All of my experiences writing text online have been bad. So the jump into using webkit for an entire dev environment fills me with dread.
This is already possible using gitgutter in both Vim and ST, and I've never noticed an impact on performance.
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#127Looks amazing, but why CoffeeScript?
Because it's a modern and usable version of one of the most ubiquitous language of the modern web era (and happens to actually produces that language as an output, making it seamless to integrate)?
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#128Looks amazing, but why CoffeeScript?
I have the same problem with LightTable... ClojureScript is Lisp and all, but why not Javascript? Huge user base, must be faster since its CS target, and pretty good as a extension language (or just use Lua :))
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Why not just use Vim?
Vim does not support graphical user elements, and is built around the unfamiliar language Vimscript. Those drawbacks are pretty baked into Vim and would be hard to change (though someone is trying to: https://www.bountysource.com/fundraisers/539-neovim-first-it... ). Many other editors don’t have these drawbacks, allowing them to support features such as these: • a graphical file tree browser (with icons, not restric…
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The ST builds mysteriously stopped recently (ST3 beta and dev), which is a bit ominous.
Considering that ST is barely ever worked on, not really. Maybe a few spouts. I love sublime, if it wasn't for the awesome plugins I probably would have ditched it. :)
Exact reason why I think this is great news, it will likely be a more actively developed version of what ST is now... plus some extras