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Post by tracker1 »

gavinpc wrote: post #377
tzs wrote: post #341

From "The Zen of Programming": ------ Hearing a disturbance, the master programmer went into the novice's cubicle. "Curse these personal computers!" cried the novice in anger, "To make them do anything I must use three or even four editing programs. Sometimes I get so confused that I erase entire files. This is truly intolerable!" The master programmer stared at the novice. "And what would you do to remedy this state…

> Sometimes I get so confused that I erase entire files OT, but just this week my wife did something that really got me thinking about how far computers haven't come in terms of usability. I heard her say "O crap" from behind her macbook, and out of habit I came to assist. For some reason unknown to both of us, she had pasted the text of an email into a document called "thesis.docx", and then saved it. The text was c…

Not sure if this will help regarding change tracking in MS Word...

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/track-changes-wh...

Re: Atom

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Post by encoderer »

nilsbunger wrote: post #311
crazygringo wrote: post #144

I was all ready to be skeptical and everything... but this could actually be amazing. I currently use Chocolat for code editing, which is beautifully elegant and I love it, but there are 25 little tiny things that I really wish I could fix. I file issues, but the developers rightly have their own priorities. It's closed-source, but even if it were open source, I'm not about to learn how to use XCode and Objective C a…

Have you looked at Adobe Brackets? It's basically that, open-sourced today. Or look at node-webkit if you only want the app framework without the editor. The biggest downside I see right now is HUGE binaries (100+MB) because you're bundling a browser in your exe.

Browsers are 100+MB?

Re: Atom

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Post by klibertp »

colanderman wrote: post #530
klibertp wrote: post #502

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Clipboard manager. Set to record X selections too. That does it for me. Every bit of text I select is copied to clipboard, just below the value currently held there. In this case I'd have the full content of the docx file as a second item in my clipboard manager list with an email as a first one. I set the size of the clipboard items list to 500, just in case. I couldn't live without some kind of clipboard manager. I…

I actually have some scripts which take textual snapshots of all my open non-idle terminal windows every 10 seconds. This has saved my butt a number of times.

For this purpose I set very large history in tmux and I almost never use terminal outside tmux anyway. The panes and windows in my tmux are very long-lived, but when I decide to close one I need to go through it's history and manually extract interesting/important bits. It's annoying and automating this would be really nice though.

Re: Atom

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Post by njharman »

jvm wrote: post #401
gavinpc wrote: post #377

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> Sometimes I get so confused that I erase entire files OT, but just this week my wife did something that really got me thinking about how far computers haven't come in terms of usability. I heard her say "O crap" from behind her macbook, and out of habit I came to assist. For some reason unknown to both of us, she had pasted the text of an email into a document called "thesis.docx", and then saved it. The text was c…

Vim persistent undo solves this problem: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/undo.html#undo-persist... ...I'm sure Word will catch up eventually.

Exactly, and the fact that previous / older editors (and operating systems) have solved this "problem" supports the Zen Master parable.

Re: Atom

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Post by mihaifm »

mrbogle wrote: post #93
johnthedebs wrote: post #78

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I've been playing with it for a few minutes now, and it's definitely the case that it's easier to tweak. Not because of the underlying language, but because they expose so much of what's available through a GUI. I'm blown away by how cool this is. I'm just really hoping for good Vim keybindings and I will pay good money for this once it's out of beta.

You may have found it already, but there is: https://github.com/atom/vim-mode

written in Coffeescript? Oh God how did we get to this...poor old Vim...

Re: Atom

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Post by tksb »

klibertp wrote: post #502
exclipy wrote: post #499

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Not in this case. If you accidentally `:w! thesis.txt`, persistent undo isn't going to help you.

Clipboard manager. Set to record X selections too. That does it for me. Every bit of text I select is copied to clipboard, just below the value currently held there. In this case I'd have the full content of the docx file as a second item in my clipboard manager list with an email as a first one. I set the size of the clipboard items list to 500, just in case. I couldn't live without some kind of clipboard manager. I…

Re: OS X clipboard/pasteboard manager.

I've used ClipMenu [1] for years after using Jumpcut [2] as far back as 2003.

[1: http://www.clipmenu.com ] [2: http://jumpcut.sourceforge.net ]

Re: Atom

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Post by Kequc »

JabavuAdams wrote: post #576

Wait, so now I have to deal with all the shittiness of the web stack in order to develop a native app?

The new, dominant and universal front end/back end/desktop app all round programming language. JavaScript :(

Re: Atom

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Post by brian_cloutier »

xster wrote: post #345
brian_cloutier wrote: post #243

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It's most likely not possible until there's a "hosted atom" you connect to with your browser. ChromeOS is /just/ a web browser and won't run node, which Atom uses to do its processing.

You can make offline apps for ChromeOS/Chrome

You can make offline webapps for ChromeOS. Node will not run on ChromeOS.

Re: Atom

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Post by cli »

jsilence wrote: post #532
gavinpc wrote: post #377

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> Sometimes I get so confused that I erase entire files OT, but just this week my wife did something that really got me thinking about how far computers haven't come in terms of usability. I heard her say "O crap" from behind her macbook, and out of habit I came to assist. For some reason unknown to both of us, she had pasted the text of an email into a document called "thesis.docx", and then saved it. The text was c…

> "thesis.docx", which of course was not backed up. Something I find hard to belive from a woman whose husband is reading hacker news. 'thesis' and 'not backed up' are forbidden to appear in the same sentense by "the Universe(tm)". This law is enforced by _always_ deleting the contents of 'thesis'.

> Microsoft word on a macbook, and your penultimate version of a file is not backed up.

From that sentence, I interpreted it as the latest version of the thesis was not backed up, and that she may have lost several days' work.

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