jessegrosjean

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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
No easter eggs in Bike yet... though I should add something someday. At the moment just trying to get features in to make it a good place to work and think.
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
I'm Bike's developer. Thanks everyone for the comments. While I have the eyeballs I hope you don't mind me asking... I'm in process of adding autocomplete to Bike. Problem is that I generally find macOS autocomplete pain
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Sorry, I'm tried web tech in previous apps. This time I wanted build native, and I don't have resources to do it all. What I would love... Take a look at Bike's file format, it's just a subset of HTML. Would love to some
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Thanks :)
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
I don't think it would matter, text affinity happens at texts "run" boundaries... so only where formatting changes. Doesn't matter how many attributes each run has. I think that is proper way to design the feature, but i
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Writing the text editor has certainly been painful and taken me a long time. This particular feature (typing affinity) isn't actually to hard and I think could be bolted on to most existing edit editors. Really you just need to take on
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Please see footnote in linked article. Like all ideas it's probably been invented many times before. But also like all ideas you need to invent, make good implementation, and then hopefully luck into people finding out a about it.
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Pretty sure :) I submitted this story a month ago when Bike first released this feature and only got 3-4 upvotes. Very pleased and surprised to see it generating interest today.
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
It works on text "runs", so there will only ever be two choices. In the case you describe there's no way to choose only bold, or only link... you would need to revert to standard rich text dancing for that.
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
If you are interested in Canon Cat these are two good sites: - Documents: http://www.canoncat.net - Web based emulator: https://archive.org/details/canoncat
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Is anyone aware of other apps that clone Cannon Cat's leap feature? I've always wanted to implement in my own editors, but it's never quite reached top of the list. VIM search is similar in some ways, but not sure it's r
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
> It's kind of shown in the video, but how do you edit the link target URL? For that Bike uses standard approach from other rich text editors, you need to invoke some command to show popover UI. Either right click on link and choose
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
I've been digging around and think I see what you are talking about. I see using visible codes for formatting such as ^PBbold^PB. I agree this allows for more precise text input in relation to formatting. For similar reasons that Markd
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Does anyone have a good link demonstrating this? I've never run Wordstar, though I have read through manuals and screens in the past trying to make sense. My impression from skimming manuals/screens is that the approach isn't
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Show HN: Bike – Rich Text and Innovation(hogbaysoftware.com)
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Two thumbs up for Maine blueberries! I made my summer money from 5 years old through college raking them. Piece work, around $2.50 per 5 gallon bucket.
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
For saving to disk yes, but not on every keystroke. An autosave is scheduled and then the save is performed after some period of time. The underlying scheduling and behavior is provided by macOS framework code. If you add a line then rows a
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
A bit late, but added, I always forget that bit.
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
If anyone digs in and profiles Bike 1.0 you'll unfortunately find that it is wasting some CPU with a timer. This will be fixed soon and is not related to underlying architecture or animations. It's me coalescing events from user d
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Maybe, though I will probably just stick to macOS standard keys for now. And maybe that is ... I don't know. Anyway generally when I want to cut line I will exit into outline mode and cut.
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
I plan to do more with single key shortcuts in outline mode, just haven't had time to really think it through. Want to make sure I have a plan before I just start adding them.
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Keep those good old days going. Get a license :)
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Yes, all the basic needed to be implemented. Impressive or dumb or maybe just persistent.
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Thanks I'm glad you liked it. Please note that I sold FoldingText to https://doubledogsoftware.com and it's still being worked on. I don't know full set of plans, but when I sold last summer (right before dedicati
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Sorry, just not supported right now.
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Note that Bike does support changing font size already. I'm getting a lot of request for also adding changing the underlying font. Will likely add that sooner then later now since lots of people seem to need.
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Couldn't remember. Just found it: https://audiojungle.net/item/the-snaps-claps-stomps-pack/363...
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
I've read that article a number of times, it's of course a great data structure, though I haven't ever used it myself. I think I like b+tree/rope better though for indexing lists of things efficiently. I did a lot work u
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Thanks, added to my bug list.
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Unlikely to be built directly into Bike editor. I have thoughts (no plans yet) about plugin API that can use web view as output layer. The idea being that an outliner can be used for many things. For example you can create a calendar where

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