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26 votes
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KeenWrite 3.5.0: Captions and cross-references
6 votes -
Bram Moolenaar, creator of Vim, has passed away
108 votes -
KeenWrite 3.3.2: MermaidJS diagrams (with caveat)
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KeenWrite 3.3.0
6 votes -
KeenWrite 3.2.0
6 votes -
KeenWrite 2.10.0: R meets TeX
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KeenWrite 2.8.1
4 votes -
Show your Emacs shortcuts in colour when giving presentations
5 votes -
Sunsetting the Atom text editor
6 votes -
Introducing Zed — A lightning-fast, collaborative code editor written in Rust
From Hacker News: Founder of Atom here. We're building the spiritual successor to Atom over at https://zed.dev. We learned a lot with Atom and had a great time, but it always fell short of our...
From Hacker News:
Founder of Atom here. We're building the spiritual successor to Atom over at https://zed.dev.
We learned a lot with Atom and had a great time, but it always fell short of our vision. With Zed we're going to get it right. Written in Rust, custom native UI framework, engineered to be collaborative. Just starting our private alpha this week, so the timing of this announcement feels quite fitting.
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KeenWrite 2.5.1: Command-line arguments
10 votes -
JMathTeX
4 votes -
Making bracket pair colorization 10k times faster in VSCode
7 votes -
Sublime Text 4
22 votes -
Text editing hates you too
13 votes -
Text rendering hates you
12 votes -
KeenWrite 2.0
12 votes -
KeenWrite: Dark themes
4 votes -
Emacs user survey 2020 results
7 votes -
Modern IDEs are magic. Why are so many coders still using Vim and Emacs?
13 votes -
Toward a "modern" Emacs
14 votes -
KeenWrite: A text editor
12 votes -
Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003)
7 votes -
Scrivenvar: Writing + Variables
4 votes -
Highlighting code with color can carry a huge amount of information, and there are many useful approaches other than just using it for syntax
10 votes -
Fedora approves of making Nano the default terminal text editor
14 votes -
Onivim 2: First round of MIT commits have been released
12 votes -
How Vim became so popular
22 votes -
Scrivenvar: A text editor with built-in R functionality
5 votes -
How Emacs should get more users: A response to Making Emacs popular again
8 votes -
vim_cubed
13 votes -
Multi-format text editor with chain-of-command processing
A while back I developed a desktop-based text editor (Scrivenvar) that uses the Chain-of-Responsibility design pattern to help me author fairly involved text documents. The editor's high-level...
A while back I developed a desktop-based text editor (Scrivenvar) that uses the Chain-of-Responsibility design pattern to help me author fairly involved text documents. The editor's high-level architecture resembles the following diagram:
https://i.imgur.com/8IMpAkN.png
Am I reinventing the wheel here? Are there any modern, cross-platform, liberal open-source (LGPL, MIT, Apache 2), text editor frameworks (such as xi or Visual Studio Code), that would enable (re)development of such a tool?
Scrivenvar is written in Java, but to my chagrin, Java 9+ no longer bundles JavaFX. The text editor was based on MarkdownWriterFX, itself based on JavaFX. This means there's no easy upgrade path, so I'm looking to rebuild the editor either as a cross-platform desktop application or as a web application.
8 votes -
Jupyter Notebooks in the IDE: Visual Studio Code versus PyCharm
4 votes -
What editor/IDE do you use?
How fast do you think it is and what are your reasons to use it?
25 votes -
Text Editing Hates You Too
14 votes -
Please tell me what you think about this idea for a text editor/Linux Distribution combo
I know there are similar products I could buy in the US that would give me this experience, but I'm not in the US and I don't have much money. In the old days, my father had some kind of machine...
I know there are similar products I could buy in the US that would give me this experience, but I'm not in the US and I don't have much money.
In the old days, my father had some kind of machine that was not a proper laptop and not a proper typewriter. It opened instantly to a text editor. As far as I remember, there was no noticeable boot time. It had a keyboard and an entry for a floppy disk. You typed your stuff, saved it to the floppy disk, probably to send via email or to print in another machine. I loved that machine.
I love these little gadgets that do one thing and one thing only. And, as someone with severe ADHD, they're often a necessity. If my Kindle had Youtube I would never read a book. If my PS4 had Emacs I would never play a game. The list goes on, but the principle is this: a lot of things are useful to me precisely because of what they cannot do.
And that is why I wanna recreate my father's crazy computer-typewriter.
Because I know how to use the command line, it really needs to be in total lockdown: I open it up, it shows a very simple text editor (with a few handy features that make it works even more like a typewriter) that I cannot configure, tinker or alter in any way. It's focused on writing (not editing) literature because that's what I need and other kinds of writing require an internet connection.
It would save and back up automatically (like a typewriter) to one or more drives at your choice.
There would need to be a few options because of different screen sizes, the number of screens etc, with an interface to make it easier.
So the idea is an ultra-minimal, kiosk-mode Linux distribution that can either go on a flash drive or be installed on an old laptop. No package management, no internet connection, no access to the command line, no configuration files, no distractions whatsoever. I wanna forget I'm even using Linux. I wanna recreate my father's typewriter/computer that he never let me touch.
How do I do this?
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Rx - An extensible pixel editor inspired by Vi
9 votes -
Humble Book Bundle: Linux & UNIX by O'Reilly
8 votes -
Firenvim - embed Neovim in to Firefox/Chrome
12 votes -
Learn Vimscript the Hard Way
6 votes -
A fully-functional graphical text editor with syntax highlighting in thirty-nine lines of K.
13 votes -
All Tridactyl installations might get removed by Firefox on Aug 21
12 votes -
Onivim 2 pre-alpha is out!
9 votes -
History and effective use of Vim
6 votes -
Atom 1.38 Release and Atom 1.39 Beta
7 votes -
Emacs merges HarfBuzz support to master branch
10 votes -
What is your personal preference and why: vim or emacs?
This is of course the age old debate, which on other sites has been known to quickly devolve (one of the Internet ‘holy wars’ of yore). Nonetheless, I am curious. I personally use vim. Part of the...
This is of course the age old debate, which on other sites has been known to quickly devolve (one of the Internet ‘holy wars’ of yore). Nonetheless, I am curious.
I personally use vim. Part of the reason is surely that it is just the first one of the two that I happened to use, and thus by the time I tried emacs I was used to vim. But more broadly, I enjoy using vim because once you get over the hump of ‘weird’ commands and modes, I feel that vim most closely emulates the feelings and thought process that you have when building something with your hands. You can pick up different tools, yank pieces out and rearrange them, turn the object around in your hands to see different parts, etc etc. Once you internalize the movement and editing you really start flying around. At that point the interface seems less like a barrier between you and the text and more like a way to ‘hold’ it.
Of course, people have different preferences.
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What do you Tildians think of Atom?
I was looking for an open source editor and I found Atom. It looks pretty cool. What do the experienced programmers, etc. think about it?
29 votes -
Online markdown editors that are capable of handling loads of text
I have discovered hackmd.io a few months ago and started digitalizing my massive mess of handwritten nodes together with all the terrible notepad/word mixed notes into one big personal "wiki" of...
I have discovered hackmd.io a few months ago and started digitalizing my massive mess of handwritten nodes together with all the terrible notepad/word mixed notes into one big personal "wiki" of knowledge. But I ran into a problem. HackMd can only handle ~50k characters before starting to lag and 100k characters is the limit per note, this doesn't even fit my one summary/tips note on one programming language. Do you know any alternatives? I really like markdown, since all of the notes look clean and organized, I can insert pictures and link to websites easily, but also love to work with them online, since I have to switch between 3 computers between university, home and my laptop.
7 votes