Re:SubEthaEdit 5 – native open-source text editor with live ...
by okennedy on Saturday May 16, 2020 @12:46PM
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I remember using it around the time they switched names. Although I barely ever used the collaborative features, SEE's multi-cursor editing capabilities were like magic. Yeah, other editors let you edit multiple lines, but SEE was the first editor I'd used that gave you multiple distinct cursors, rather than giving you a single vertically stacked cursor. Top that off with OSX's default emacs keybindings, and you had a super simple, but incredibly powerful editing experience.
I eventually needed something cross-platform and switched to Sublime, but I still have very fond memories of SEE.
Re:SubEthaEdit 5 – native open-source text editor with live ...
by qubex on Saturday May 16, 2020 @01:01PM
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That’s right! I’d forgotten how utterly amazed I was when I discovered multiple cursors and how useful they were. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered that feature anywhere else.
It was the first collaborative text editor I ever used and was a showpiece for Apple’s Randezvous (later Bonjour) implementation of zeroconf. I was absolutely amazed.
I never used the collaborative features (much) but it certainly impressed people when I showed them!