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Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Post by crucialfelix »

aroman wrote: post #8
alecsmart1 wrote: post #4

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Looks good. Any idea how we can try it?

well, it looks like you need to use GitHub oauth to sign into it, and doing so currently spits you out here: https://atom.io/nope So I think we sit tight for now, though it looks like a release is imminent.

now it says "SOON"

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Post by jaredmcateer »

baby wrote: post #95
csmattryder wrote: post #11

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This looks pretty cool, there seems to be Vim shortcuts [1] and even theming. Judging from your screenshot, Solarized Dark is the default theme? But I'd have to wait until its release (or beta, should I be so lucky!) to consider moving from standard vim editor and Solarized in my Xresources. [1] https://github.com/atom/vim-mode

I always wonder why I learned emacs over vim. There is never support for it.

Don't feel bad, there's nothing worse (for editing) than using a half baked version of vim in another editor. The best of implementations will leave you with an uncanny valley feeling of disgust. I'd rather use a non-modal editor, all or nothing.

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Post by duaneb »

baby wrote: post #95
csmattryder wrote: post #11

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This looks pretty cool, there seems to be Vim shortcuts [1] and even theming. Judging from your screenshot, Solarized Dark is the default theme? But I'd have to wait until its release (or beta, should I be so lucky!) to consider moving from standard vim editor and Solarized in my Xresources. [1] https://github.com/atom/vim-mode

I always wonder why I learned emacs over vim. There is never support for it.

Unless you use a Mac!

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Post by odonnellryan »

Kequc wrote: post #99
reustle wrote: post #7

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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.

Codebox works awesomely well, and you can host it locally. Still has bugs, but they do releases often.

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Post by [deleted] »

lewispb wrote: post #116
reustle wrote: post #7

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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…

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.

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Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Post by masukomi »

admnor wrote: post #111
davidw wrote: post #102

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Because when you learn elisp, it runs circles around vim.

Yay, the original Holy War! (vi, for the record)

I'm pretty sure that vi hasn't been distributed for years. All the vi's in modern distros are just pointers to vim.

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Post by 72deluxe »

no_gravity wrote: post #125
72deluxe wrote: post #114

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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.

Ah I see the draw of an editor in a page then. Now I understand the excitement.

Thanks!

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Post by pritambaral »

est wrote: post #37
james33 wrote: post #13

All of the competition can only be good for us developers. This, ST3, Light Table, Brackets, etc. Bring on the text editor wars!

Don't forget IDE family like http://c9.io/ Edit anywhere just with a browser is a win IMHO. Also easy pairing.

c9 is awesome! One thing keeping me though is realtime collaboration in the open source edition. (Gotta self host, flaky internet).

The closest alternative currently is CoVim. :x

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