Re:Why I Wrote a Programmer's Text Editor
by jjcm on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @04:50PM
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Love the chromium backend of it - I'd love it even more if it were merged with vim in a macvim-esque sort of way.
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The description says its chromium-like, not that it used code from Chrome, unfortunately.
Re:Why I Wrote a Programmer's Text Editor
by rasmusfabbe on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @10:04PM
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It do uses some Chromium code. See https://github.com/rsms/chromium-tabs
Cool! Detaching a tab into its own window (process?) is kinda magic for me.
Emacs would be awesome too. :-)
I disagree. Don't mix it. Just make port for linux so normal people can use it.
People who use Linux on the desktop are, statistically speaking, not even close to normal.
Re:Why I Wrote a Programmer's Text Editor
by burgerbrain on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @06:12PM
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This is a programmers editor. From the population of people who use such editors, using Linux really isn't all that uncommon.
Sure. But for the power user, for the full-time developer, there's no point in going for something like Kod. Learning vim or emacs is actually not that hard.
As Rasmus points out in this blog post, he's aiming for a different crowd: people for whom programming is a secondary activity.
Re:Why I Wrote a Programmer's Text Editor
by burgerbrain on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @07:48PM
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I would suggest that even among the population of simply "power users", Linux usage is not uncommon.
Re:Why I Wrote a Programmer's Text Editor
by dhyasama on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @10:11AM
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I initially read this as "people who use Linux are odd" and had a much needed chuckle. After reading it's descendants I don't think that's how you meant it, but thanks, nonetheless.
I agree. Both are amazingly powerful editors and seeing a nice/powerful GUI on top of it might make me switch over from a CLI. Time to branch this project.