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Re: Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox

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Post by kenneth_chau » Fri, Feb 11, 2011, 1:36 AM UTC

askar wrote: post #69

ffffruit wrote: post #31

I only wish the real Textmate followed up on the huge list of todo's and feature requests people have been submitting. I think a core update is long overdue.

Can't agree with you enough! Do the developers of Textmate ever listen to these demands?

I personally hope the likes of SourceKit and Cloud9 IDE and such will someday replace the likes of Textmate and Eclipse. It'll be a dream when you have VCS, documentation, collaboration, IDE / text editor, running environments all be accessible by everything (including your tablets!!)

Re: Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox

#92

Post by kenneth_chau » Fri, Feb 11, 2011, 1:37 AM UTC

kayoone wrote: post #39

doesnt mozilla work on something similar ? http://ace.ajax.org/ it was previously called Bespin and is now part of a cloud based IDE as it seems. Interesting.

To clear this up, I am switching to Ace in my next major release.

Re: Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox

#93

Post by kenneth_chau » Fri, Feb 11, 2011, 1:40 AM UTC

signa11 wrote: post #79

just a quick question here: why using your standard editor and saving stuff onto the 'Dropbox' folder on the local-machine is not sufficient ?

I was inspired actually by the CR-48. As your JS engines get faster, these sorts of software would be more relevant. I 1st PERSONAL milestone is to develop this very software with itself rather than Textmate :)

Re: Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox

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Post by kenneth_chau » Fri, Feb 11, 2011, 1:40 AM UTC

dmd wrote: post #63

Nice, but you're (egregiously) violating Dropbox API TOS by asking for the user's password.

Asking, but not storing.

Re: Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox

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Post by dmd » Fri, Feb 11, 2011, 2:18 PM UTC

kenneth_chau wrote: post #94

dmd wrote: post #63

Nice, but you're (egregiously) violating Dropbox API TOS by asking for the user's password.

Asking, but not storing.

How about you tell me YOUR dropbox password? I promise I won't store it. I'm just asking.

Re: Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox

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Post by loevborg » Fri, Feb 11, 2011, 4:22 PM UTC

This is very interesting. I realize I'm in the minority here, but I would love to use something like this for editing English-language text such as articles, letters, and so forth. This requires decent support for line-wrapping, proportional fonts, and configurable line-spacing. I write my documents in markdown and convert it to whatever is needed - ODT or LaTeX - using the fantastic pandoc. I don't actually write a lot of code; I do write a lot of articles.

I also really like vim keybindings, which makes my usecase even more exotic. Web apps might make this niche interesting.

Re: Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox

#97

Post by kenneth_chau » Sun, Feb 13, 2011, 8:17 AM UTC

SourceKit 0.6.2 is OUT! No more asking for email, pass; now with more Dojo and Ace! http://bit.ly/dRvLmb