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I'm really looking for a lighter-weight GUI editor. Too many random shortcut keys to memorize in Atom, and VS code is getting wayyyy to bloated. It always has a

by dheera 4y ago

I'm really looking for a lighter-weight GUI editor. Too many random shortcut keys to memorize in Atom, and VS code is getting wayyyy to bloated. It always has an annoying welcome message at startup, annoying notifications about things I could install, and way too much text in the UI. I don't like settings and other dialogs being tabs alongside code, even though I know it hip to do that nowadays. I search for 'ssh plugin' and there about 35 of them. SSH remote editing is about the only "plugin" I need, and if it's built into the editor that would be nice. Very often I find myself going back to terminal vim because VS code has gotten to be too much, and also too annoying to deal with if I want to keep multiple projects' repos open at the same time.

nicoburns 4y ago
Sublime Text is by the most mature product in this category.
- dheera 4y ago
  Yeah, but it's not free, and creating a ticket for purchasing a license for my work machine is a PITA. I'm sure the actual cost isn't an issue, and it would likely get approved, but the friction is there, the purchasing/reimbursement UI at my corp isn't nice.
vlunkr 4y ago
> and also too annoying to deal with if I want to keep multiple projects' repos open at the same time. This was a big annoyance for me when I tried vscode. Maybe it's atypical, but I'm typically accessing 3-5 different repos every day. Having to open a window instead of just quickly doing a cd and opening vim gets old fast.
sargstuff 4y ago
So define the random shortcut keys via GPT-3 & and use 'text to speech' to automate 'visual cues' using ar glasses[0] to avoid all the memorization? ar/vr glasses instead of Inkbox[1]/pierader[2] would make for 'ligher' gui. [0] Open source smart glasses : https://github.com/TeamOpenSmartGlasses/OpenSourceSmartGlasses https://github.com/TeamOpenSmartGlasses/OpenSourceSmartGlass... [1] : https://github.com/Kobo-InkBox/inkbox https://github.com/Kobo-InkBox/inkbox [2] : https://gitlab.com/guyjeangilles/piereader https://gitlab.com/guyjeangilles/piereader

by dheera 4y ago

nicoburns 4y ago

Sublime Text is by the most mature product in this category.

dheera 4y ago
Yeah, but it's not free, and creating a ticket for purchasing a license for my work machine is a PITA. I'm sure the actual cost isn't an issue, and it would likely get approved, but the friction is there, the purchasing/reimbursement UI at my corp isn't nice.

vlunkr 4y ago

> and also too annoying to deal with if I want to keep multiple projects' repos open at the same time. This was a big annoyance for me when I tried vscode. Maybe it's atypical, but I'm typically accessing 3-5 different repos every day. Having to open a window instead of just quickly doing a cd and opening vim gets old fast.

sargstuff 4y ago

So define the random shortcut keys via GPT-3 & and use 'text to speech' to automate 'visual cues' using ar glasses[0] to avoid all the memorization? ar/vr glasses instead of Inkbox[1]/pierader[2] would make for 'ligher' gui. [0] Open source smart glasses : https://github.com/TeamOpenSmartGlasses/OpenSourceSmartGlasses https://github.com/TeamOpenSmartGlasses/OpenSourceSmartGlass... [1] : https://github.com/Kobo-InkBox/inkbox https://github.com/Kobo-InkBox/inkbox [2] : https://gitlab.com/guyjeangilles/piereader https://gitlab.com/guyjeangilles/piereader