There seems to be a lot of text editors being showcased on HN at the moment. While the engineering involved in each of them is remarkable, and way beyond what I could imagine accomplishing, I've yet to be convinced that any problems are being solved. Nothing I've seen has yet convinced me to move away from my emacs/git based workflow.<p>Maybe they are simply CV showcases, in which case this is an impressive piece of software, and congratulations to the developer, but you've yet to convince me to move away from 1970s technology.
I've definitely wanted to make plugins for Sublime Text that show a live preview in another pane. Unfortunately there's no way to create another pane of anything but text, so the current solution is opening new windows (for things like Markdown Preview, or Graphviz).<p>When I get some free time, I would like to see if it's easy to do in Light Table. Since it's open source, anything should be possible with a bit of work.
I've noticed more desktop applications being built on HTML5, node-webkit, etc. Can anyone point me towards some good resources for getting started in this? I'm specifically interested in building a Windows application this way.
Why do you make a live HTML5 editor using Node.js but you don't make it work online? I think it would be much awesome and useful if it worked online and you could embed it on any website.<p>I was thinking on real time examples where you could play around with the code to learn how stuff works. It would be great for learning how to code or for explaining how a library works.
I wonder how trivial it would be to make it markdown. If I weren't already not-doing work on my own project(s) by reading HN...<p>This is nice though
Reminds the days of FrontPage and how I got started. I guess it's good for beginners. But I don't see a reason to replace my good old fashion editor vim.