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by nicklaf 12y ago
I also like the following quotation of N. Bohr, appearing in an Amazon book review[1] of Dr. Simonton's[2] "Creativity in Science: Chance, Logic, Genius, and Zeitgeist": "We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The
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by nicklaf 12y ago
This article gives the following quote some context: "Mathematics requires a small dose, not of genius, but of an imaginative freedom which, in a larger dose, would be insanity. And if mathematicians tend to burn out early in their car
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by nicklaf 12y ago
That would be very interesting indeed. Even Plan 9 requires you to mount tar files with a special command instead of simply typing "cd file.tar". The Plan 9 developers were conservative about preserving the semantics of commands
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Folding could be partially automated based on language grammar. It could also try to learn from your own manual folds.
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Yes, good point about the differences in semantics with conventional filesystems. To the extent that they are similar, though, a synthetic filesystem could try to expose the folds as a Plan 9 filesystem interface. Plan 9 filesystems may or
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Storing text in a named file, folding a block of text within a file into a named "fold", and opening multiple views of the same file (with each view potentially being a different subset of that file), are all really just the same
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Another text editor that treats text as having no grammatical structure (it doesn't even do syntax highlighting), but nevertheless attempts to give the user some really snazzy shortcuts--not keyboard shortcuts, but mouse shortcuts--is
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To answer my own questions about the intended use for "Code Browser", see: http://tibleiz.net/code-browser/tips.html Understanding existing source code Code Browser can help you to understand existing source
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Interesting--the author developed his own language with LLVM with which to write the editor: http://tibleiz.net/copper My first reaction reading about the program was: since code folding (and other crutches intended to aid