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by shalabhc 10y ago
Over at howl.io we've been working on another Lua/moonscript based editor. Incidentally it used scintilla as well until we switched to an in-house engine called aullar. The author wrote a blog post about it: https://how
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by shalabhc 10y ago
Also, Dynabook? And the GUI? http://online.wsj.com/ad/article/laptop-invented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_...
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by shalabhc 10y ago
Yeah I rarely post images online so I used the first google result. Later I realized imgur might be the better choice. Posted another image here: http://imgur.com/a/14l3y
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by shalabhc 10y ago
I switched to this and it does look nice: https://snag.gy/rFSpig.jpg
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Yes I find Howl so much better than the elisp and emacs archaic API.
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Can you give a ballpark estimate of the sizes of these files?
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by shalabhc 10y ago
There is no terminal frontend. Yes 'LuaJIT emacs' with a nice API is probably a good description. It does have a vi editing mode as well.
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by shalabhc 10y ago
Just here to plug an up-and-coming editor called Howl: https://howl.io I did some of these tests with Howl, here are the better numbers: - Memory (hello.c): 22748 (RSS) - Rehighlight test: about 3s - Time used to load test.xml,
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by shalabhc 10y ago
While we're on the topic of other editors - I found an editor that I could customize to work exactly the way I want ( https://howl.io ). And yes, I've used Emacs and written elisp to try and do the same - it just wasn&
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by shalabhc 10y ago
What are the main use cases of multiple cursors? It seemed like an interesting feature, and I'm curious why it would be considered essential.
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by shalabhc 10y ago
What do you mean by 'plugs in'? Is it just that Atom has good support for syntax highlighting or something else?
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by shalabhc 10y ago
Excellent! It should be zippy for largish files too :D Here's a link to video segment showing opening a large number of files: https://youtu.be/FmxKXWXj90c?t=24m50s
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by shalabhc 10y ago
I just wanted to plug an up-and-coming editor called Howl ( http://howl.io ). Written in and extended using Lua (actually Moonscript), not Javascript, and definitely very easy to extend. As an ex-emacs users I do find it similar i
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Visual Studio Code’s story(vimeo.com)
2 points by shalabhc 10y ago|0 comments
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by shalabhc 10y ago
There is already ycmd, srclib etc. so there already are other common protocol that try to unify different languages.
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by shalabhc 10y ago
Ah yes - I find that really useful too! Do you know how Emacs handles too many recursive listings? Howl just truncates the search after 3 seconds and I'm wondering if there's something better we can do.
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by shalabhc 10y ago
Seconded. Everytime I've tried VSCode I've been very impressed. (More than every time I tried Atom). It's snappy, has a nice UI and lot of great out of the box features.
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by shalabhc 10y ago
In terms of ease of extensibility, I haven't found anything better than Howl ( http://howl.io ). Disclosure: I'm one of the contributors.
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by shalabhc 10y ago
What, in particular, about the UI don't you like? Is it just the lack of tabs?
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by shalabhc 10y ago
Thanks! See this comment for instructions on how to build on OSX (or what worked last time :) https://github.com/howl-editor/howl/issues/68#issuecomment-1...
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by shalabhc 10y ago
Thank you. Yes it's kind of like a modernized Emacs with a very nice API in Lua. I haven't used Vim so can't say about the similarity there but it does have a Vim mode. Do you mean the normal file browser or the recursive
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by shalabhc 10y ago
Another one to try is Howl ( http://howl.io ) It's newish but very stable and uses Lua (not Javascript) as the extension language. It is very lightweight and faster than Atom. Disclosure: I'm one of the contributors.
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There's no framework at the moment, but will probably be added at some point. Currently packages are easily installed be just copying the folder into a 'bundles' directory. Note that there's a lot of built-in functionali
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by shalabhc 10y ago
I'm one of the developers and happy to answer questions. 0.4 was also just released: http://howl.io/blog/2016/05/31/howl-0-4-released.html
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The Howl Editor – a fast, lightweight, LuaJIT based, fully programmable editor(howl.io)
5 points by shalabhc 10y ago|3 comments