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Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by Davertron » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 6:28 PM UTC

xauronx wrote: post #25

pixelbath wrote: post #11

This is a very pretty editor. That said, I have no freaking idea what I'm supposed to do. I've been messing around with it for around 15 minutes now, and I still don't understand it. I added a PHP website folder and got no code hinting or anything else beyond "here is the match for your parenthesis" for either PHP or Javascript. This also resulted in my "navigate" tab being filled with SVN meta-files. I am quite conf…

Same here. I really WANT to use this, but I added a PHP project and it doesn't seem to do anything. I can't even Ctrl+F to find something in the file. I'm looking everywhere for hotkeys to do things, but there's no documentation I can find. I was expecting some kind of awesome interface like "Ctrl-Left Arrow" to bring up the left bar, then type in your command and press enter and it does magic and hides the bar. But…

I was wondering the same thing. Neither ctrl+space or cmd+space works on osx for me, maybe because I have alfred installed?

Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by Avestan » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 6:28 PM UTC

ibdknox wrote: post #10

shuma wrote: post #7

Which languages does it support?

It's a general editor and can open most things out there, however the eval stuff is limited to Clojure, ClojureScript, JavaScript, and CSS.

I follow LT project since I saw it on kickstarter and it looks great so far. And I cannot wait for promised full Python support to be implemented.

Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by Macsenour » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 6:31 PM UTC

As a game dev guy, I'm looking at the two new Open game platforms, Ouya and GameStick, and thinking that LT might be a great way to get kids into coding.

Getting kids to code games is so much easier than any other project, even if the game is extremely simple.

Anyone care to comment?

Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by cheald » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 6:32 PM UTC

I've tried to add a workspace directory from a Samba mount, and it's been stuck for about 10 minutes now.

Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by pjbrunet » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 6:32 PM UTC

I downloaded Linux 64 and it doesn't work in Debian. No readme either?

Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by eric_bullington » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 6:34 PM UTC

podperson wrote: post #24

What going back over the old demo and looking at this post did was remind me of how nice jsfiddle is when it isn't insanely slow, which then led me to wonder how hard it would be to create something like jsfiddle that lived on top of github would be, or something like jsfiddle that lived inside my favorite editor, or just in a static html page on my desktop.

If you get frustrated with jsfiddle, try out http://cssdeck.com/labs It's nominally oriented toward CSS and all the CSS preprocessors, but it handles JS just fine (and CoffeeScript, too!). I like its layout a lot more than jsfiddle -- it's more aesthetically appealing to me. It also features the ability to do codecasts. I can't recall if jsfiddle has that, but it's a nice feature for demonstrating code to someone.

Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by pjbrunet » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 6:36 PM UTC

pjbrunet wrote: post #65

I downloaded Linux 64 and it doesn't work in Debian. No readme either?

Just tried Linux32 download and it seems to be working :-)

Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by ibdthor » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 6:41 PM UTC

ollysb wrote: post #35

I'd absolutely love to see ruby in Light Table, how are plans looking for this? If there was a kickstarter for adding ruby I'd pony up in a flash. I realise manpower is probably going to be the main issue though...

Manpower is an issue, but we've gotten a lot of requests for Ruby in the future. When and where Ruby support will come is still unknown, but do know that we hear you! :)

Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by edoloughlin » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 6:43 PM UTC

Currently downloading at 9-10KB/s. Anyone seeding a torrent?

Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by moogleii » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 6:45 PM UTC

pixelbath wrote: post #11

This is a very pretty editor. That said, I have no freaking idea what I'm supposed to do. I've been messing around with it for around 15 minutes now, and I still don't understand it. I added a PHP website folder and got no code hinting or anything else beyond "here is the match for your parenthesis" for either PHP or Javascript. This also resulted in my "navigate" tab being filled with SVN meta-files. I am quite conf…

The website definitely could use a little more info. I had never heard of lighttable until now. Figuring out what it was and what problems it was solving took longer than it should have, imo. I don't want to watch a video. Give me a breakdown, time is precious!