Show HN: Goodbye Old Editor – Reinventing coding with the cloud

Re:Show HN: Goodbye Old Editor – Reinventing coding with the... by klibertp on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @06:07PM (#5783167)

Well, if everything else was equal and all features implemented the "zero deployment/any device" would be a great thing, no? As I said I like the idea, not current implementations.

Personally I would use it - and even if it had only a fraction of functionality I mentioned - for remote pair programming. It's so hard to make people feel comfortable with Emacs/Vim+screen/tmux!

As an aside, I think that an online editor with scripting capability would quickly catch up to native editors in terms of features.

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Re:Show HN: Goodbye Old Editor – Reinventing coding with the... by chr1 on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @06:58PM (#5783415)

Well actually all the online editors have awesome scripting capability via javascript:)

> - rectangular selection and operations (v: Ctrl-v, e: C-x r ... or rect-mark)

Ace (cloud9 editor which friendCode uses) have pretty good support for sublime text style multiple selections, (with ctrl-alt-arrow keys) so emacs or vim style should be easy to implement. The main problem is that there are oly a few people who use online editors, so most of this things are not implemented yet.

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Re:Show HN: Goodbye Old Editor – Reinventing coding with the... by gizmo686 on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @06:14PM (#5783211)

Could you use VNC or simmilar to do GUI screen sharing and use the editor of your (and/or your partners) choice?

Also, regardless of scripting abilities, online editors are still limited to the abilities of the browser.

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