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Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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FYI 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

Well, crap, they've certainly got enough pictures of rockets. Sign me up!

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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Why not just use Vim?

Vim does not support graphical user elements, and is built around the unfamiliar language Vimscript. Those drawbacks are pretty baked into Vim and would be hard to change (though someone is trying to: https://www.bountysource.com/fundraisers/539-neovim-first-it... ). Many other editors don’t have these drawbacks, allowing them to support features such as these: • a graphical file tree browser (with icons, not restric…

It's also apparently a pain to integrate into anything else...

http://www.freehackers.org/VimIntegration

...and plugins can't update things in the background...

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev/-4pqDJfHCsM%...

etc. I haven't looked at the code myself, but it sounds like a rewrite or major refactor would be very useful.

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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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.

I’ve used Evil in Emacs with http://orgmode.org/ , after having learned Vim. I’d say Evil is another great, thorough emulation of Vim. It includes even relatively-obscure features like visual block mode, R, K, v_o, :%!sort, ^W window split/switch/close commands, and Vim’s tree undo model. My only problems with Evil are where Emacs or Emacs plugins’ bindings conflict with Vim bindings, such as v_^G (that is, Ctrl-G in…

I recall this most recent emacs effort the best of all the previous attempts (Viper etc). I believe there was one thing I couldn't fix:

When in command mode (such as when you type :e etc), hitting back space stops at the last deletion. In Vim, if you continue pressing backspace, the editor cursor starts moving back (as if you're pressing `h` in normal mode). (Did you figure out how to fix this?)

It's the little things like this that have become ingrained in our muscle memory over the course of more than a decade.

I do agree that emacs' scripting environment is better than Vim Script.

Re: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

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holy 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

Some more screenshots * https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/671378/2265086/c6897dba-9e... * https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/671378/2265022/bb148a20-9e... * https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/2988/1796891/85e69ff2-6a93... (animated gif) * https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/671378/2241795/ba4827d8-9c... * https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/671378/2241819/f8418cb8-9c... * https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/671378/2241519/04…

looks like light table
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