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Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Post by ytjohn »

pritambaral wrote: post #160
est wrote: post #37

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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

Check out Codebox.io, another open source web ide. I've been comparing the two from a self-hosted standpoint. c9 definitely has the more polished interface (for instance, the ability to resize any pain), but codebox doesn't seem to limit any features on the self-hosted version. It just seems to work better.

I only got my self-hosted version running last night and couldn't seem to spot a "chat" option (had two different browsers open) but for any file that was open by two people, you got to see who was editing what within the file.

When I was running c9, I couldn't even get the console to display. I found a plethora of issues in their github issue tracker of other people with the same problem, as well as code suggestions to fix it, but virtually no response on any issue from the c9 people.

I reported an issue I was having with codebox on their tracker. First I thought it was a bug, then I found a workaround (set the USER environment variable before starting codebox). I reported that on the issue, suggesting a documentation update, and within an hour, they had committed new code that made the workaround unnecessary.

So for self-hosted, I think codebox has the more stable and actively developed codebase while c9's open-source version is more of an afterthought. But I do admit that c9's hosted service is much nicer than codebox's hosted service.

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Post by grandalf »

this is very cool. I think many people are underestimating the potential of something like this. There are 1000x as many people who can hack something cool for this than would do so in elisp.

* I'm a happy emacs user but have to admit this is very promising.

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Post by pritambaral »

ytjohn wrote: post #251
pritambaral wrote: post #160

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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

Check out Codebox.io, another open source web ide. I've been comparing the two from a self-hosted standpoint. c9 definitely has the more polished interface (for instance, the ability to resize any pain), but codebox doesn't seem to limit any features on the self-hosted version. It just seems to work better. I only got my self-hosted version running last night and couldn't seem to spot a "chat" option (had two differe…

I checked it out (as recently as yesterday, right after my comment), but it is too buggy and featureless for me.

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Post by talkingquickly »

odonnellryan wrote: post #187
talkingquickly wrote: post #167

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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.

Would be really interested to chat to you about Codebox + Docker, email is ben at talkingquickly co uk or talkingquickly on twitter

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Post by odonnellryan »

talkingquickly wrote: post #254
odonnellryan wrote: post #187

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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.

Would be really interested to chat to you about Codebox + Docker, email is ben at talkingquickly co uk or talkingquickly on twitter

Sent you an email!

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Post by jaredmcateer »

DennisP wrote: post #241
jaredmcateer wrote: post #153

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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.

Funny, I'm just the opposite. I'd rather have the basics than nothing. Mostly I've used VsVim and Viemu. They're both pretty decent. (Viemu is better though, it's got everything I normally use except for :norm. VsVim is missing column mode and the vap doesn't work.)

I've built a suite of useful shortcuts that only work with my vimrc, which isn't a problem since installing my config from my github repo is a 3 step process, but when I'm running in some "vim-mode" editor I find myself tripping up on not having these things that I've committed to muscle memory and it ends up killing my productivity. At least if I know the editor is always in insert mode I can adjust with the occasional :w here.

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Post by DennisP »

jaredmcateer wrote: post #258
DennisP wrote: post #241

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Funny, I'm just the opposite. I'd rather have the basics than nothing. Mostly I've used VsVim and Viemu. They're both pretty decent. (Viemu is better though, it's got everything I normally use except for :norm. VsVim is missing column mode and the vap doesn't work.)

I've built a suite of useful shortcuts that only work with my vimrc, which isn't a problem since installing my config from my github repo is a 3 step process, but when I'm running in some "vim-mode" editor I find myself tripping up on not having these things that I've committed to muscle memory and it ends up killing my productivity. At least if I know the editor is always in insert mode I can adjust with the occasio…

I could see that being annoying. VsVim and Viemu both support a vimrc.
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