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Off-topic response: w.r.t. code completion plugins in Chocolat, the hard part is already done. With v3, the plugin API is now process-separated, and communicati

Off-topic response: w.r.t. code completion plugins in Chocolat, the hard part is already done. With v3, the plugin API is now process-separated, and communication is over mach ports. Now that there's a stable, non-blocking and low-latency foundation for plugins, all I need to do is figure out a good API for it. My advice to aspiring text editor authors would be: do development on the slowest most outdated computer you can find. I use a 2007 iMac: 2GHz, 3GB of RAM and a 128MB ATI Radeon 2400. If the app works OK for me, it should work awesomely for everybody else!

veidr 12y ago
That is great to hear! I bought Chocolat (a purchase mainly instigated by the hilarious "the demo expired so it still works, but only with Comic Sans font" gimmick). And I even sent friends screenshots[1] raving about its completion UI. But... Chocolat didn't really stick for me, with the plethora of editors I already use. Even though it's good. I would definitely revisit it, if it got extensible completion. [1]: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r2da0rc7spgpxqq/Screenshot%202014-11-21%2011.59.45.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/r2da0rc7spgpxqq/Screenshot%202014-...
- mkhalil 12y ago
  Is there an app that does have that autocomplete in the screen shot?
  - veidr 12y ago
    Yes! That is indeed a real screenshot of an editor for OS X, called Chocolat[1]. The alextgordon fellow that replied to me upthread is one of the principal people behind it. [1]: http://chocolatapp.com http://chocolatapp.com
halflings 12y ago
The auto complete in Chocolat is just mind-blowing. Unfortunately I really miss all the keyboard friendly features in Sublime (CMD+P then write the name of a file; CMD+SHIFT+P and write a command). I think if you had those implemented many Sublime users may consider switching to Chocolat. (then there are also features that may be harder to implement, like Sublime's search and multi-cursor selection)
- alextgordon 12y ago
  CMD-P is CMD-D CMD-SHIFT-P is CMD-SHIFT-D Multicursor find is CTRL-F, CTRL-SHIFT-F and CTRL-ALT-F I guess what it really needs are a set of sublime keybindings.
  - halflings 12y ago
    Great! Seems like I missed on a lot :) Maybe another suggestion would be executing (Python) programs in the main interface instead of executing them in the terminal.
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veidr 12y ago

That is great to hear! I bought Chocolat (a purchase mainly instigated by the hilarious "the demo expired so it still works, but only with Comic Sans font" gimmick). And I even sent friends screenshots[1] raving about its completion UI. But... Chocolat didn't really stick for me, with the plethora of editors I already use. Even though it's good. I would definitely revisit it, if it got extensible completion. [1]: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r2da0rc7spgpxqq/Screenshot%202014-11-21%2011.59.45.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/r2da0rc7spgpxqq/Screenshot%202014-...

mkhalil 12y ago
Is there an app that does have that autocomplete in the screen shot?
- veidr 12y ago
  Yes! That is indeed a real screenshot of an editor for OS X, called Chocolat[1]. The alextgordon fellow that replied to me upthread is one of the principal people behind it. [1]: http://chocolatapp.com http://chocolatapp.com

halflings 12y ago

The auto complete in Chocolat is just mind-blowing. Unfortunately I really miss all the keyboard friendly features in Sublime (CMD+P then write the name of a file; CMD+SHIFT+P and write a command). I think if you had those implemented many Sublime users may consider switching to Chocolat. (then there are also features that may be harder to implement, like Sublime's search and multi-cursor selection)

alextgordon 12y ago
CMD-P is CMD-D CMD-SHIFT-P is CMD-SHIFT-D Multicursor find is CTRL-F, CTRL-SHIFT-F and CTRL-ALT-F I guess what it really needs are a set of sublime keybindings.
- halflings 12y ago
  Great! Seems like I missed on a lot :) Maybe another suggestion would be executing (Python) programs in the main interface instead of executing them in the terminal.

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