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> I know k is up, because I constantly k in bash What is ESC-k supposed to do in Bash?
The poster probably changed his bash to use vi editing mode with set -o vi. In this mode, k would put the text of the last command entered back on the prompt.
I'm always surprised by people who are on the vi/vim side of vi/emacs debates but then use the defaults emacs mode in deadline!
From the github page, "Kilo is a small text editor in less than 1K lines of code. [..] The project [..] was written in just a few hours" Either this has to be a unstructured mess of copy and paste and not worth anyones time or the author is lying about the time he used on this. Both alternatives are unappealing.
Or you're making assumptions based on your own skills? Have you seen what e.g. Notch can do in a few hours of live coding?
Judging from the screencast he use around 10 seconds per line. That would be, (10s * 1000 loc)/3600 = 2.7 hours just to type 1000 lines of code. Programming is of course not typing, but a mental activity first and foremost. Let's say he is incredible smart [1] and helped by copy and past, so on average he uses 90 seconds to program one line. That is, 25 hours. Of course it will take a few days to create a 1000 line C program that does anything useful.
And of course I know that "a few hours" is just something one say to look cool. I just don't think it is cool.
1. His naive redlock and following discussion on HN a while ago was not convincing, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11065933
From the github page, "Kilo is a small text editor in less than 1K lines of code. [..] The project [..] was written in just a few hours" Either this has to be a unstructured mess of copy and paste and not worth anyones time or the author is lying about the time he used on this. Both alternatives are unappealing.
Or you're making assumptions based on your own skills? Have you seen what e.g. Notch can do in a few hours of live coding?
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> In your car, do you move the turn signal lever up or down to indicate a right turn? You rotate it the same direction you're about to rotate the wheel. The vi navigation keys have no such convenient correspondence.
The J kinda looks like an arrow pointing down. If you squint.
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Yeah but that is so much less usable. Quick, which one is up?
Just look at your keyboard :-) ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-3A#Legacy ) I always try to remember them by noting that the leftmost key moves left, the rightmost key moves right (not too hard), and that 'K climbs' (using alliteration to remember that). That leaves 'J' for cursor down. In practice, though, I use the cursor keys. Luckily, they work on the editors/systems I work on nowadays. Side effect is that I…
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Or you're making assumptions based on your own skills? Have you seen what e.g. Notch can do in a few hours of live coding?
Just out of curiosity, where can I see what Notch can do in a few hours of code? Is there some screencast of him coding?
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That issue basically forced me to switch from plain-text to html emails, and thence to the slippery slope of using italics and the OCD of syntax highlighting my code snippets..
I dread the slow insinuation of "the web" into email. Specifically, the need to use a rendering engine like Blink or Gecko to read an email. Is there anything I can do to tempt you to switch back to plain-text emails?
I think of it as 99%[1] text/html with format=flowed, and if gmail ever added format=flowed to text mode[2] I'd switch back in a heartbeat.
[1] The remaining 1% of the time I'm composing something long enough that it has more in common with publishing than 1-1 communication.
[2] I wouldn't hold my breath: http://productforums.google.com/d/topic/gmail/Z42NibAOzjc/di.... More likely I'll stop using gmail one of these years..
What challenges might you have if you wanted to implement something like this inside a game framework like Unity or MonoGame with C#, where it renders everything via DirectX or OpenGL?
@Antirez please please please let this thing have a future: there is a great need for a modern, simple and usabile CLI editor.