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Except for the mouse and the graphical user interface
Where did you get that idea?
In Sublime you can select text with your mouse and on the right there is a graphical overview of the entire document.
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Where did you get that idea?
emacs and vi are console based editors. I don't understand how anything could get to the point where it could never be made better. In Sublime you can select text with your mouse and on the right there is a graphical overview of the entire document.
Don't know about emacs, but vim has an (optional) gui.
>In Sublime you can select text with your mouse
And in vim - even in the console version in fact. It's useful being able to select text, scroll with the mouse wheel, etc in a terminal window, particularly if you're editing a file on a remote machine.
>and on the right there is a graphical overview of the entire document.
Depending on what 'graphical overview' means, it's almost a certainty that vim can do something similar. The only thing I can think of where that would not be the case is if you mean something like a thumbnail view of the whole document (can't see much use for that offhand, but maybe) [edit: I had a second look to see what you meant by that, and yeah it looks like that's one thing vim can't do].
Not sure if you're aware but it also has features like tabs, arbitrarily split screen, colouring (console version is limited to 256 colours unfortunately, not sure about gui [edit: gVim supports proper 24bit colours]) and numerous other features that you might only expect in a dedicated graphical application.
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emacs and vi are console based editors. I don't understand how anything could get to the point where it could never be made better. In Sublime you can select text with your mouse and on the right there is a graphical overview of the entire document.
>emacs and vi are console based editors. Don't know about emacs, but vim has an (optional) gui. >In Sublime you can select text with your mouse And in vim - even in the console version in fact. It's useful being able to select text, scroll with the mouse wheel, etc in a terminal window, particularly if you're editing a file on a remote machine. >and on the right there is a graphical overview of the entire document. D…
I just opened vi on my machine and I was unable to select text. Maybe there's a way to get it to work... but in Sublime and other graphical editors it just works.
Thumbnail may have been a better word... Sublime has just that. I've found it useful when working on long files. But regardless, there are other features that a GUI enables, like code folding...
I downloaded this and tried it out, and it's definitely pretty. I just can't come up with any situation where I'd actually use it to write code. Try pulling up a source file. Any file, any language. Type in the name of one of your objects, then a period, then hit CTRL+SPACE. What comes up? A list of strings that contain your object name, picked by matching text from the source. Really? In 2011??? Why are people still…
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>emacs and vi are console based editors. Don't know about emacs, but vim has an (optional) gui. >In Sublime you can select text with your mouse And in vim - even in the console version in fact. It's useful being able to select text, scroll with the mouse wheel, etc in a terminal window, particularly if you're editing a file on a remote machine. >and on the right there is a graphical overview of the entire document. D…
Having an (optional) gui is something "new". The parent post I was responding to asserted that there was nothing new in the editor space since emacs and vi. I just opened vi on my machine and I was unable to select text. Maybe there's a way to get it to work... but in Sublime and other graphical editors it just works. Thumbnail may have been a better word... Sublime has just that. I've found it useful when working on…
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>emacs and vi are console based editors. Don't know about emacs, but vim has an (optional) gui. >In Sublime you can select text with your mouse And in vim - even in the console version in fact. It's useful being able to select text, scroll with the mouse wheel, etc in a terminal window, particularly if you're editing a file on a remote machine. >and on the right there is a graphical overview of the entire document. D…
Having an (optional) gui is something "new". The parent post I was responding to asserted that there was nothing new in the editor space since emacs and vi. I just opened vi on my machine and I was unable to select text. Maybe there's a way to get it to work... but in Sublime and other graphical editors it just works. Thumbnail may have been a better word... Sublime has just that. I've found it useful when working on…
