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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
4 votes -
KeenWrite 2.8.1
4 votes -
Show your Emacs shortcuts in colour when giving presentations
5 votes -
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
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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 -
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?
14 votes -
Rx - An extensible pixel editor inspired by Vi
9 votes -
Humble Book Bundle: Linux & UNIX by O'Reilly
8 votes