GitHub epitomizes a "culture of shipping" to me. They're slamming feature after feature out the door (multiple features in the same day sometimes - like today). I like BitBucket too but, man, I would not want to be competing against the GitHub team right now. They're just <i></i>prolific<i></i>.
I think this is inspired by the fullscreen mode in Wordpress. That's a good thing. Now I wish other places would incorporate this. I'd love a zen mode in Gmail, for instance.
If you're writing an inline comment (in normal mode, not Zen mode) on a commit and accidentally hit escape, your whole comment is lost. I think the biggest improvement to comments github could make would be to not wipe out everything you've written if you hit escape. This feature will help a bit with this, as it given you an extra level before escape will destroy a comment.
It's a little funny that "Zen mode", absolute quietness on screen to focus the mind without any distractions at all, has a little, largely unnecessary widget on screen that you can keep clicking back and forth that lets you change the color scheme.
I wrote a short blog post [1] on what I found while trying out Github's new zen writing tool. Just using it was enlightening for me if you havn't tried it yet give it a go, or have a look at what I thought of it, then you'll want to give it a go?<p><pre><code> I realised that I wanted to be able to link to this.
Not the main github page of my code repository (although I will want to do that too
of course) but to this markdown rendered zen mode view of what I want to show them.
be that code or prose.
</code></pre>
Over all I think it's great and have tried to explain my thoughts more fully in the link provided.<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/christopherdebeer/zen/blob/master/README.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/christopherdebeer/zen/blob/master/README....</a>
Would be nice to have it in fixed when you're editing code. But, then again, if you're using it for editing code, you might need syntax highlighting as well.<p>Man, my old man's generation probably thinks we're all candy asses.
How long before they offer full blown IDE? Something like Cloud9 IDE could be quite easily integrated - <a href="https://c9.io/" rel="nofollow">https://c9.io/</a>