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Behind my two Safari windows is the text editor I use for my technical writing job: BBEdit, a native desktop app. (For coding, though, I prefer to use MacVim, a
by chipotle_coyote 7y ago
Behind my two Safari windows is the text editor I use for my technical writing job: BBEdit, a native desktop app. (For coding, though, I prefer to use MacVim, a native desktop app, although I've lately been trying out a beta of the forthcoming Panic Nova, a native desktop app.) I also use Marked, a native desktop app, for Markdown previewing occasionally. Of course, I spend a lot of time in the Terminal, a native desktop app, running command line programs and shell scripts, which are not native desktop apps but are certainly native apps. When I need to run a diff or merge tool, I tend to use Kaleidoscope, a native desktop app. Because I'm in an open office, I sometimes have to resort to headphones, which I primarily use with iTunes, a native desktop app.
Now, as I finish up this response to you in Safari, a native desktop app, remind me what were you saying about native desktop apps again?
- derefr 7y agoOfftopic, but if you’d like an elegant hybrid† Markdown viewing/editing experience, I’d suggest https://typora.io/ https://typora.io/, another nicely-polished low-memory-consumption native app. † I don’t know what to call this editing paradigm. It’s somewhere between source-editing and WYSIWYG. Document markup nodes are rendered as their source syntax when your cursor is “inside” them, allowing for plaintext modification of the syntax; but then, when your cursor leaves a node, it switches to rendering as its formatted output instead. You can cursor back into the node to edit it more at any time. It’s pretty unique. It’s the editing style that Slack’s new input box wishes it had.
- disqard 7y agoI use Typora myself, but it's definitely an Electron app (neither native, nor lightweight). https://support.typora.io/What's-New-0.9.66/ https://support.typora.io/What's-New-0.9.66/