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Developer's Corner / Re: TextAdept: Lua-extensible Editor

« on: May 12, 2014, 01:25 AM »

Maybe we need a text-editors-only sub-forum

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Developer's Corner / Re: TextAdept: Lua-extensible Editor

« on: May 11, 2014, 02:04 PM »

And here one from me, both with Consolas and Monokai Themes (although these differ for the two editors as is obvious):

Same conclusion as Shades.

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Developer's Corner / Re: TextAdept: Lua-extensible Editor

« on: May 11, 2014, 04:01 AM »

Textadept has moved on since the review as it seems. 7.2 which I'm running right now has tabs for example.

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Developer's Corner / Re: TextAdept: Lua-extensible Editor

« on: May 11, 2014, 03:45 AM »

Found a pros/cons review comparing Textadept with Sublime/VIM/Emacs here:

http://yfl.bahmanm.c...ews/textadept-review

Current version is 7.2 by the way.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Atom - A new editor is born

« on: May 10, 2014, 01:25 AM »

I don't know why, but I really enjoy reading about why people choose the text editors they use.
 

I think it has partly to do with the fact that it's just a text editor, lol.  It's supposed to be this very plain thing, yet there are so many complex options and features, etc. to consider and we get all passionate about them.  Same goes for other software, I suppose, but I really have fun with the text editors.

-superboyac (May 09, 2014, 04:41 PM)

I think it's also due to the fact that editing text is one of a few key activities in many professions (at least of DC people). It's also one where it seems to be very apparent how it could be improved (although the specifics seem to be quite individual).

The one improvement important to me would be efficient navigation and selection within text. Home/End and Ctrl+Left/Right just doesn't cut it. It's also the main reason why I'm experimenting with VIM again.

I've read an interesting rant about text editors in general here and specifically about atom here yesterday, which makes some valid points to think about (it's in German, but I'm sure google translate can handle it). It made me check out the textadept web site which ewemoa had alread posted about but I had forgotten. After what I have read so far about atom I think checking out textadept or lime (a Sublime clone) would currently be a better time investment for me than trying to build atom (which I still haven't succeeded with).

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General Software Discussion / Re: DVCS ? (All about Git, Mercurial-Hg and the like...)

« on: May 10, 2014, 12:00 AM »

Funny and sad at the same time!

-ewemoa (May 09, 2014, 09:06 PM)

Indeed. It seems like using git not only serves the purpose of versioning your files, but also to excercise your brain.

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General Software Discussion / Re: DVCS ? (All about Git, Mercurial-Hg and the like...)

« on: May 09, 2014, 07:43 AM »

Ok, now check this out:

http://git-man-page-...erator.lokaltog.net/

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General Software Discussion / Re: DVCS ? (All about Git, Mercurial-Hg and the like...)

« on: May 09, 2014, 03:10 AM »

Just stumbled over what seems to be a very nice git book/tutorial available for free online.

http://www.vogella.c...als/Git/article.html

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Atom - A new editor is born

« on: May 08, 2014, 01:26 AM »

I tried building it on Windows without success yet.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The AVE

« on: May 08, 2014, 01:25 AM »

And here's a short tutorial on find and replace:

http://www.thegeekst...nd-replace-examples/

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Android: Note-taking App with Encryption, Source Code, ... ?

« on: May 07, 2014, 04:06 PM »

Found this one

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/enotes/

Supposed to run on Android and Desktop (it's Java after all), which could be interesting. Did not try it yet though.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: May 07, 2014, 02:34 PM »

Sounds weird but cool

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Developer's Corner / Re: Google not paying for OSS / how OS licence choice relates to monetization of OSS

« on: May 07, 2014, 06:32 AM »

While the topic of this thread perhaps slightly misrepresents the scope of the article ...

-Jibz (May 07, 2014, 06:19 AM)

Yes, sorry about that. Fixed.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Android: Note-taking App with Encryption, Source Code, ... ?

« on: May 07, 2014, 05:00 AM »

Encryption is the important part here: it means that all your notes (or information to make it more general) are encrypted and decrypted directly on your devices (aka client side encryption).

WorkFlowy doesn't seem to do that.

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Developer's Corner / Google not paying for OSS / how OS licence choice relates to monetization of OSS

« on: May 07, 2014, 02:03 AM »

http://www.drdobbs.c...pen-source/240168123

Reminds me that it's about time again to approach my boss to send some more money towards the OSS we use

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Android: Note-taking App with Encryption, Source Code, ... ?

« on: May 07, 2014, 01:35 AM »

Thanks for this list ewemoa, will have a look. Looking for something like this is on my todo list as well. Although I'd like to have something for both Android and iOS and it should sync to dropbox (which seems to be the de-facto standard cloud service on iOS). Markdown capability would be a plus.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: O'Reilly programming Ebooks & videos 50% off through 7/27/2013

« on: May 06, 2014, 04:20 AM »

Same again but only for today:

http://shop.oreilly....-drm.do?code=DRM2014

sorry, can't change date in original title

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: May 06, 2014, 02:19 AM »

0.14 should fix both those problems. Hope it works for you now!

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General Software Discussion / Re: The AVE

« on: May 05, 2014, 06:04 AM »

I guess I'm not all that sure what the argument is for using Vim in the Windows world - if Windows is the only OS you ever anticipate using.

...

Vim certainly wouldn't be my first choice if I needed an editor. Nor my second. Or even my third...

-40hz (May 04, 2014, 05:00 AM)

I'm afraid I have come to the same conclusion. I've uninstalled VIM on the same day I started this AVE

What I have done instead is to install VsVim in Visual Studio and Vintageous in Sublime Text 3 to make this a two step process:

1. Learn vi commands in an environment which is familiar (and fully configured)
2. Look into VIM configuration at a later time, after I have learned using VIM (well, the editing parts of it anyway)

I have since found that VsVim is superior to Vintageous (which itself is superior to Sublime's own Vintage mode). But both are actually quite usable.

The one cheat sheet I've consulted most often was this one: http://www.fprintf.n...t/vimCheatSheet.html
although I've started my own with the commands I use most (so I can look them up faster).

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: May 05, 2014, 01:39 AM »

I'm using C# string.Split() which doesn't offer ignoring case

-phitsc (May 04, 2014, 04:22 PM)

How does the following look?

  http://stackoverflow.com/a/1436101

-ewemoa (May 05, 2014, 01:20 AM)

Thanks for the suggestion

I think it would be a good option except that it might be annoying when trying to split with a string which is a regex but you want it to be taken literally (well, not a problem if you know about regexes).

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: May 04, 2014, 04:24 PM »

I think the most needed feature would currently be storing parameters between sessions and when changing between individual text manipulations.

That was a note to self by the way.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: May 04, 2014, 04:22 PM »

Another issue for TIMU 0.12.0.0. When I paste a list in the input box in Split:

"A Kiss Before Frying" OR "Bittersweet" OR "Brain Doe" OR "Code Blue Plate Special" OR "Crime After Crime" OR "CSI Down" OR "CSI Unplugged" OR "Dead Air" OR "Dead Or Alive" OR "Double Fault" OR "Exile" OR "Forget Me Not" OR "Ghosts of the Past" OR "House of Hoarders" OR "In Vino Veritas" OR "It Was a Very Good Year" OR "Kitty" OR "Last Woman Standing" OR "Lost and Found"

and put " OR " (space+OR+space) as the separator string, it does not split "Dead Or Alive" regardless of the Ignore Case toggle. It does not split it if i put " or " either regardless of the toggle. It always splits "Dead Or Alive" (and only that one) if i put " Or " regardless of the Ignore Case toggle.

-DyNama (May 03, 2014, 10:20 PM)

As absurd as it sounds: I'm afraid it's not easy to fix and I have to postpone it to some other time. I'm using C# string.Split() which doesn't offer ignoring case, so I'd have to implement my own algorithm to fix that.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: May 04, 2014, 04:19 PM »

New release:

0.13

• Added Search & Replace - Highlight word multiplication
• Added Web - Twitter
• Added List - Trim to size

Just saw that the line trimming is not quite correct though. I think my algorithm that calculates the line length takes the space after the word into account for the line length check (although the space is removed later before the append-text is appended). Will have to fix this some other time

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: May 03, 2014, 04:12 PM »

You want the rest in one piece, or would this be desirable:?

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable ►

Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among ►

Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alt-tab replacement ?

« on: April 29, 2014, 02:30 AM »

Despite what it says on their web site, VistaSwitcher seems to run well on Windows 8. Problems might be related to Metro and Apps (which I don't use). There's a nice review here:

http://winaero.com/b...ks-with-modern-apps/