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I almost wish it was Electron based. A bunch of things made the usage almost impossible. - MacOS has handy text navigation shortcuts: alt-arrow to go back a wo

by flixic 5y ago

I almost wish it was Electron based. A bunch of things made the usage almost impossible. - MacOS has handy text navigation shortcuts: alt-arrow to go back a word, alt+shift+arrow to select a word, etc. These don't work, and I'm too used to them to stop using. - I'm using Colemak keyboard layout (L key inserts letter "i"), but keyboard shortcuts don't respect it. So in my mind I have to press Cmd + U ("u" is mapped to I key) to make text Italic. Again, this broke my usual habbits. - Common MacOS shortcuts (even Cmd + Q to quit) don't work. I like the ideas behind this editor, but now I hope someone ports it to HTML + JavaScript, so it works keeping all the OS-provided affordances.

c-smile 5y ago
Yes, its operation on MacOS needs some attention. In fact I've created the notepad as a demo project for Sciter SDK (https://sciter.com https://sciter.com). The same as Sciter Notes: https://notes.sciter.com https://notes.sciter.com It is just that at some point someone asked me to make distribution so I've created that web site. Another question was to understand: donation-ware, is it a sustainable solution. Apparently it is not - donation does not even cover sums asked by Apple for allowance to develop software for their platform.
unicornporn 5y ago
> alt-arrow to go back a word, alt+shift+arrow to select a word, etc. These don't work, and I'm too used to them to stop using. Will sadly make it unusable for me. Thanks for saving me the time.
- c-smile 5y ago
  If someone wants to take care about this html-notepad - please let me know. I don't mind if it will be commercial product or not - I'll help anyway. As I said - it can be ported to new Sciter (it uses JS now) as it is - relatively easy. Just drop me a message at https://sciter.com/contact_us/ https://sciter.com/contact_us/
primax 5y ago
This feels a bit like the old reddit post about how now one would ever use Dropbox because you can just roll your own FTP server. Good points though on OS tracked features.
- deleted 5y ago
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- phist_mcgee 5y ago
  For anyone who might be interested in the referenced comment above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
toomanyducks 5y ago
Tangential, but for the pain of alternate keyboard layouts, I've found it easiest to use a keyboard that allows remapping of keys in hardware to alternate layouts (sends the 'wrong' keycode when you press a key). It's a bit of a hack, but it works much better than equivalent software hacks.
- flixic 5y ago
  System having "both views" -- software view (where "i" might be on key L) and hardware view (of physical key placements) -- is very useful. For example, when using Colemak on Windows, I can play using WASD physical keys, but many games correctly name them WARS.

by flixic 5y ago

c-smile 5y ago

Yes, its operation on MacOS needs some attention. In fact I've created the notepad as a demo project for Sciter SDK (https://sciter.com https://sciter.com). The same as Sciter Notes: https://notes.sciter.com https://notes.sciter.com It is just that at some point someone asked me to make distribution so I've created that web site. Another question was to understand: donation-ware, is it a sustainable solution. Apparently it is not - donation does not even cover sums asked by Apple for allowance to develop software for their platform.

unicornporn 5y ago

> alt-arrow to go back a word, alt+shift+arrow to select a word, etc. These don't work, and I'm too used to them to stop using. Will sadly make it unusable for me. Thanks for saving me the time.

c-smile 5y ago
If someone wants to take care about this html-notepad - please let me know. I don't mind if it will be commercial product or not - I'll help anyway. As I said - it can be ported to new Sciter (it uses JS now) as it is - relatively easy. Just drop me a message at https://sciter.com/contact_us/ https://sciter.com/contact_us/

primax 5y ago

This feels a bit like the old reddit post about how now one would ever use Dropbox because you can just roll your own FTP server. Good points though on OS tracked features.

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phist_mcgee 5y ago
For anyone who might be interested in the referenced comment above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

toomanyducks 5y ago

Tangential, but for the pain of alternate keyboard layouts, I've found it easiest to use a keyboard that allows remapping of keys in hardware to alternate layouts (sends the 'wrong' keycode when you press a key). It's a bit of a hack, but it works much better than equivalent software hacks.

flixic 5y ago
System having "both views" -- software view (where "i" might be on key L) and hardware view (of physical key placements) -- is very useful. For example, when using Colemak on Windows, I can play using WASD physical keys, but many games correctly name them WARS.