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Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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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.

You could always use emacs evil-pluging.

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Am I the only one who finds it hard to believe this has indeed been leaked and is not just a marketing strategy from Github? The repos are not even private.

I'm in this camp. Have you ever been to a talk given by Scott Chacon? He demos git on Github's internal repos. It's clear that there's little value placed on keeping a feature under wraps before it comes out over there.

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A 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....?

Considering I am currently working on a ChromeBook, yeah it is is interesting for a class of users.

There are some well known web IDEs like C9 etc that don't really appeal to me and there is a Chrome app called Caret that look very Sublime Text like but lacks plugins. I am happily working with vim and tmux (although I have Sublime Text in a chroot if I felt the need) but Web IDEs have potential.

I had a play with something called godev and it had support for godoc, go-oracle, godef, fmt etc as well as all the usuals like syntax highlighting etc based on Eclipse Orion. It lacked a lot of editor features though and things like git integration so it wasn't really practical but it made me realise there is potential for self hosting a web ide.

I get the feeling there is a space for an open web ide to take off. Many of the current offerings are tied to hosted services and don't look overly customisable.

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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.

Yeah, as the create of GitGutter for ST, my first thought was, cool if I switch to this I can write GitGutter in CoffeeScript. Then I thought, being Github, they would probably bake that in.

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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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.

I like my (GitGutter's) concept of displaying removed lines better. This screenshot makes me think line 11 was removed. But I am looking right at it!

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

To put "often" in context, I raised a Github issue on it today which was resolved within a few hours, it's improving incredibly quickly (and it's already awesome).

Exactly. It's still very new, but it's really worth a shot if you need the cloud-ide solution.

We use to for Go and Docker. Currently, it's very nice. Even has auto-complete - though it has a long way to go.

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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There's a bunch of lovely gems scattered through the Atom repos. Some of my favorites from a first quick glance: Biscotto — A CoffeeScript API documentation generator based on TomDoc notation: http://atom.github.io/biscotto/ React-Coffee — A little glue that makes Facebook's React easy to use from CoffeeScript without having to resort to JSX: https://github.com/atom/react-coffee SpacePen: A minimalist view library fo…

I'm confused, why would they be working on React and SpacePen? Don't they do (roughly) the same job?

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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There's a bunch of lovely gems scattered through the Atom repos. Some of my favorites from a first quick glance: Biscotto — A CoffeeScript API documentation generator based on TomDoc notation: http://atom.github.io/biscotto/ React-Coffee — A little glue that makes Facebook's React easy to use from CoffeeScript without having to resort to JSX: https://github.com/atom/react-coffee SpacePen: A minimalist view library fo…

I'm confused, why would they be working on React and SpacePen? Don't they do (roughly) the same job?

The editor will be collaborative. It's github.
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