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Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Post by munificent »

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!

> All of the competition can only be good for us developers.

Competition isn't a panacea. All this means is that we get to choose from dozens of half-baked options instead of a small number of ones that have each gotten a lot of effort poured into them.

A little more cooperation would be nice, but editors are one of those things where everyone seems to want to try their hand at it before getting bored and wandering off.

See also: build systems, programming languages, games.

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Post by adambard »

Morgawr wrote: post #218
jbeja wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Light table is only fast is you are a slow writer, the vim mode in it is painfully slow. Webkit base editors like LT and Brackest are unusable to me.

I'm a pretty fast writer and I never had any problem with LightTable's vim mode. Maybe it's just me though, I don't know.

The nice thing about Vim mode is that it glosses over latency by making simple edits take fewer keystrokes. It's sort of why vi was invented.

In the words of Bill Joy himself:

> ... you've got to remember that I was trying to make it usable over a 300 baud modem. That's also the reason you have all these funny commands. It just barely worked to use a screen editor over a modem. It was just barely fast enough. A 1200 baud modem was an upgrade. 1200 baud now is pretty slow.

> 9600 baud is faster than you can read. 1200 baud is way slower. So the editor was optimized so that you could edit and feel productive when it was painting slower than you could think. Now that computers are so much faster than you can think, nobody understands this anymore.

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Post by hodgesmr »

pritambaral wrote: post #224
hodgesmr wrote: post #223

"Atom is free during the beta period." https://github.com/atom/welcome/commit/86790ef7cca263ca0943f...

Seems like they're going the ST route. I'm kinda disappointed Atom won't be open sourced.

Maybe. https://github.com/atom/welcome/blob/master/LICENSE.md https://github.com/atom/welcome/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Post by hodgesmr »

thecoffman wrote: post #226

Apparently it collects usage information? https://github.com/atom/welcome/pull/7 Thanks, but no thanks. I don't need my editor sending usage information anywhere.

"If you do not want this information reported, disable this package from the Metrics section of the Settings view"

https://github.com/atom/metrics

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Post by thecoffman »

hodgesmr wrote: post #228
thecoffman wrote: post #226

Apparently it collects usage information? https://github.com/atom/welcome/pull/7 Thanks, but no thanks. I don't need my editor sending usage information anywhere.

"If you do not want this information reported, disable this package from the Metrics section of the Settings view" https://github.com/atom/metrics

I saw that as well, but opt-out is a crappy default. It should be opt-in.
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