Why I Wrote a Programmer's Text Editor

I can attest to the awesomeness of both Kod and Rasmus.<p>Especially Rasmus, I coded up the whole indentation feature and he had to completely rewrite everything I made because of efficiency issues (I'm not that great with objC yet) and he didn't even complain.<p>Great guy.

Is the font rendering on this guy's site screwed up for anyone else? The "t"'s have something wrong with them: <a href="http://ompldr.org/vNzVrZg/why_i_wrote_a_programmers_text_editor.png" rel="nofollow">http://ompldr.org/vNzVrZg/why_i_wrote_a_programmers_text_edi...</a><p>Firefox 3.6 on Linux.

I was particularly surprised by the behavior of the tab key:<p><a href="https://github.com/rsms/kod/wiki/Indentation" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/rsms/kod/wiki/Indentation</a><p>In a nutshell, if you press tab while anywhere on a line, it indents. Shift-Tab de-dents the line. After thinking about it a bit, I think I could get used to it. I like that they're exploring ideas like this.<p>I would like preferences "CMD ," to be bound to <i>something</i> though even if it's to opening the configuration file itself. It's a bit disconcerting to not be given an explanation of why there are no preferences. I didn't understand the reasoning until I read this blog posting.

I'm really looking forward to seeing this project develop. It has the potential to spawn a whole host of "webby" editing components..<p>As Rasmus aluded, in-browser editors aren't really tractable right now, but if everything about Kod but the runtime is written in JS, you could imagine all sorts of interesting browser ports or hosted options down the road.

Love the chromium backend of it - I'd love it even more if it were merged with vim in a macvim-esque sort of way.

Can someone explain the relationship between Kod and node.js?<p>The Kod website says it is "based on node.js", but I don't quite get that. I'm familiar with node.js as a server-side platform, but are we about to see a bunch of node.js desktop apps?

Nice, just found Kod yesterday while browsing around Github and gave it a try. Really like the dark syntax highlighting, looks very pleasing. I seem to have a font-rendering issue though, the text looks kinda blurry.

Look really nice. Too bad it's just OSX and as jjcm and xtacy pointed out, too bad it doesn't support vim or emacs bindings/integration in some way.<p>I really like your UI choices borrowing so heavily from Chrome, though. Really do... <i>updates personal notes</i>

What about TextMate? Is this aimed at a different crowd?

Does anyone know how the tabs are integrated into the system? Is it a library or did he just try to recreate the experience?

Plan on putting it in the Mac App Store?

Interesting tale of the development of Kod, the Mac OS X code editor.