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If you're like me, and read the comments first, this change is about giving feedback on the scrollbar for a search. In other words, when you search for somethi
by dragosmocrii 6y ago
If you're like me, and read the comments first, this change is about giving feedback on the scrollbar for a search. In other words, when you search for something, the scrollbar will give an idea how many results there are, and where on the page rhey are located.
On another note, the comment uses IntelliJ as an example. Wow, that was 17 years ago! Happy to see my favorite editor be around for so long.
- smitty1e 6y ago> 17 years ago "Nearly half my age," said Emacs.
- hughw 6y agoWait is Emacs lying about its age again?
- wilsocr88 6y agoEmacs was released in 1985. That's 36 years ago. Half of that is 18. What am I missing?
- agumonkey 6y agoare we off by one ?
- intrasight 6y agoI was using Emacs in 1982, and it had been around for several years before that.
- herodoturtle 6y agoI love it when old-timers weigh in on HN comments. What do you use these days?
- DyslexicAtheist 6y agonot OP, but Emacs ofc [1] [1] why on earth would they go through the traumatic change of reprogramming their muscle memory after so many years? it would be like a wizard that voluntarily gives their power away. like a father sacrificing his own child.
- intrasight 6y agoEmacs of course ;) Gosh, "old timer" :(
- herodoturtle 6y agoApologies for my poor choice of wording! Here in South Africa we typically use "old-timer" to refer to someone who is very experienced. My comment was expressed with the utmost respect I assure you :)
- intrasight 6y agoI didn't take it as a derogatory label. My emoji was just my own self reflection on the years gone by.
- intrasight 6y agoStarted with Gosmacs. Working in the CMU graduate terminal room with the man himself. I was just a freshman undergraduate, but a graduating student gifted a coveted X1 key to me. Mostly coveted due to the coke machine. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~coke/history_long.txt https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~coke/history_long.txt
- herodoturtle 6y agoWhat a wonderfully entertaining read that was :) Sounds like the culture in the CMU CS department was pretty great. Thank you for sharing this historical gem with us.
- dhimes 6y agoedlin Why fix what ain't broke? /s
- coliveira 6y agoI think GNU Emacs was released in 1985, but Emacs existed before that. Similar to vim and vi relationship. In fact, Emacs was first implemented as a plugin (a set of macros in the language of the time) for a now forgotten editor called Teco, which was one of the first, if not the first, programmable editor ever.
- chaorace 6y agoThat's the "macs" in Emacs: Editing MACroS.
- LukeShu 6y agoGNU Emacs was released in 1985. Other variants of Emacs date back to the 70s.
- Jenk 6y ago> Initial release 1976; 45 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs
- edeion 6y agoApparently, the downvote restriction to wise users doesn't prevent some of them from being trigger happy. Maybe the release date stated above is wrong but I'm shocked to see this kind of comment downvoted.
- eyelidlessness 6y agoToday I thought I was learning I’m older than emacs, but learned I’m only barely younger and that’s just fine for me.
- CivBase 6y agoTo think I was still using Eclipse a scant 7 years ago...
- dragosmocrii 6y agoOh wow, Eclipse.. That reminds me, I was using Netbeans eons ago (2010 more precisely xD). For this reason, I'm using the Netbeans key mappings in all my editors. I kinda feel bad for those editors, and I hope they still have an active user base, but oh well, it's survival of the fittest I guess.
- MattGaiser 6y agoYour comment reminded me that I have now been writing code for about a decade, as I used Netbeans as my first IDE in high school.
- stuaxo 6y agoAh, someone else ! I live in fear they will be removed from PyCharm - every time I update one of the Jetbrains editors and the Netbeans bindings aren't there, I'm lost.
- monsieurbanana 6y agoDon't worry too much about it. It will take 1-2 weeks of excruciating pain, changing your muscle memory, but that's it. Remember, people learn dvorak after a life time of qwerty... and I'm sure they aren't (all) masochists.
- Agentlien 6y agoI was forced to use Eclipse for a while ~2010, never liked it. It's funny to look at how many editors one comes across over the years. My first one was Borland C++ as a kid. Then came a mix of Visual C++ and Bloodshed Dev C++ during high school. During university I tried a bunch of things but mainly nano, gedit, Visual Studio, and Eclipse. In my early career (2013) I finally got into Vim and haven't looked back since. I did try out Rider a little over a year ago. It was really good and I'm impressed with some of its features. But it wasn't enough to make me switch.
- millerm 6y agoI’ve been using IntelliJ since version 2. :-) My favorite developer tool of all. Cheers!
- agumonkey 6y agooh god, I never knew how much I needed a scrollbar gutter for search results. So great.
- scubbo 6y agoThis comment just makes me angry to think about all the time I wasted using Eclipse without knowing that a better alternative existed.
- laurent92 6y agoI feel bad for leaving Eclipse. It was exceptional at the time, with its partial-class compiler, you could execute the JUnit on it even if the rest didn’t compile, something IntelliJ still refuses.