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#132I 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…
I may be an outlier, but I'm perfectly fine with 90%.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
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'?
That replaces the character under the cursor, it doesn't insert a new one.
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#134Haha. https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says/status/278710645644484609
This sounds more like the future than having to get an expensive computer and setup a whole environment on it.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
It's also apparently a pain to integrate into anything else... http://www.freehackers.org/VimIntegration ...and plugins can't update things in the background... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev/-4pqDJfHCsM%... etc. I haven't looked at the code myself, but it sounds like a rewrite or major refactor would be very useful.
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Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter
#136I 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…
Curious as to your opinion on Evil from Emacs - I've been learning Evil without knowing Vim first, so I don't know what I might be missing.
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#137Looks amazing, but why CoffeeScript?
GitHub's guide for javaScript is to write every new JavaScript in CoffeeScript. https://github.com/styleguide/javascript
It has been like that for years.
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#138holy 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…
ugh why has it inherited that atrocious ST find box
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#139Looks 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 :))
I'll re-phrase an earlier comment: JS is the x86 of the web, so why argue about which macro syntax is superior?
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Brackets[1] is a decent programmer's text editor developed by Adobe and using WebKit. It works fine. The performance and polish of web editor components like CodeMirror has come on a long way in the past couple of years.
[1] http://brackets.io/index.html [2] http://codemirror.net/