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Seems like to be a Sublime Text clone in webkit?
Maybe an announcement that git bought sublime and this is the web launch of it. I would be so excited if that happened.
You cannot be serious.
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Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter
#32I really can't wait for this to be released. I am a little pessimistic about the Vim mode. There are countless 80 or 90% complete Vim modes in various modern editors. But the absence of a truly native feeling Vim (that last 10%) is a deal breaker for many. I'd rather see more editor developers spend time finding a solution that provides a truly authentic Vim mode instead of spending countless hours merely approaching…
Why not just use Vim?
Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter
#33Any ideas if all the code behind the editor will be released as open source?
Edit: To be clear, I am not talking about all the supplementary repositories that are already open source, but rather I am wondering if the core application will be OS.
Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter
#34FYI https://atom.io is leaking assets. Here is an album of the images found in the css http://imgur.com/a/KG4MX#0 the css http://pastebin.com/FgN3g448 the js http://pastebin.com/p1nBmGki
The most vital one, showing it wants to be hacked at (in a good way): http://i.imgur.com/XmLcOhB.gif
Awesomeness.
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#35What sets this apart from the other WebKit-based text editors, LightTable and Brackets? In general it seems like there's been an explosion of new text editors with this style since TextMate went into hibernation around 2008. It's great to have options, but there's lots of these TextMate clones now.
LightTable is different then most editors by design, in that it tries to reproduce Bret Victor's idea on "the future of programming". Brackets is really neat, it just attempts to be a good editor, it has some unique features like toggling css inline from an html file for example and other jazz. So Atom isn't something that's really set apart from webkit-based editor, but I don't think that's what's important here. It…
As a side note, it seems like Vim will get a little better soon in terms of its barrier to modifying it and creating plugins. Someone has started a credible project to create a fork, Neovim, which will be easier to modify and extend: https://www.bountysource.com/fundraisers/539-neovim-first-it....
Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter
#36Flattered to see it using marked for the markdown engine. Maybe the world is finally ridding itself of showdown.
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#37All 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.
Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter
#38What sets this apart from the other WebKit-based text editors, LightTable and Brackets? In general it seems like there's been an explosion of new text editors with this style since TextMate went into hibernation around 2008. It's great to have options, but there's lots of these TextMate clones now.
LightTable is different then most editors by design, in that it tries to reproduce Bret Victor's idea on "the future of programming". Brackets is really neat, it just attempts to be a good editor, it has some unique features like toggling css inline from an html file for example and other jazz. So Atom isn't something that's really set apart from webkit-based editor, but I don't think that's what's important here. It…
I realize that vimscript or elisp may not be your cup of tea, but you can already have exactly this "hot reload" experience with both vim and emacs.
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#39holy cow this thing has like 70 repositories! And I found a screenshot... looks very much like sublime text: https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/1424/1228569/cce6eb26-27a6... edit: based on this[1], it looks like this is a GitHub-aware/integrated text editor that targets both desktop (Mac, at least) and web [1] https://gist.github.com/elcuervo/eb68883f233baf5a46c8
And it's totally gonna be awesome. I'm fairly confident they built it around node-webkit or another wrapper, perhaps in browser, I'm not sure. What's important is that it's a text editor on top of web technologies. I was poking around doing the same a couple months back, brackets has been doing it for even longer. It's honestly sorely needed because of the amount of expression one can put into due to it's technologic…
> An open, compile-less, hot-reloading editor sounds like a dream coming true.
You're talking about Emacs, right?
This actually seems really exciting, and I'll give it a whirl when and if I can. It's just funny to see people (the Light Table fans as well) rediscover what Emacs users already knew - modifying your editor in-place is really awesome.
Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter
#40I really can't wait for this to be released. I am a little pessimistic about the Vim mode. There are countless 80 or 90% complete Vim modes in various modern editors. But the absence of a truly native feeling Vim (that last 10%) is a deal breaker for many. I'd rather see more editor developers spend time finding a solution that provides a truly authentic Vim mode instead of spending countless hours merely approaching…
Curious as to your opinion on Evil from Emacs - I've been learning Evil without knowing Vim first, so I don't know what I might be missing.