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stcredzero
I love the command line, but I find this to be hair-shirted fetishization of the command-line aesthetic.

If we're to have an advance in programmer's editors, what we really need are more powerful and convenient ways of dealing with our working sets. By working sets, I mean working sets of definitions, methods, classes -- code entities and not files.

Right now, we're fudging this using virtual screens, multiple screens, groupings of windows, working sets in git/Mercurial, tabs, buffers, code folding, etc... The only tool I've seen that deals directly and cleanly with working sets is code bubbles.

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3854

That looks nice, if Eclipse is your thing. What about a lightweight tool that's an add-on to vim that deals directly with working sets? What about a Textmate-like editor on OS X with explicit working set support? (This should be integrated with code folding, so that you can quickly delineate a working set, save it, then later restore it, with only the entities in the working set unfolded.)

jcromartie
It's a joke.
Semiapies
Yeah. Specifically, it's a lame gag in the vi/emacs holy war.
stcredzero
I don't find such interesting. Please look at the LtU post and consider what I said about working sets.
Semiapies
1) I've already seen it.

2) You might look into making comments that have better relevance to the posts and comments you're replying to. Doubly so if you don't find them interesting.

stcredzero
The post is about editors. It's the joke I don't find interesting.
burgerbrain
No, this post is not about 'text editors', it is about 'a joke about text editors'.

Nobody really cares if you don't find it interesting. Flag it, maybe make a comment to that effect, and buzz off. Just don't veer off topic.

stcredzero
If you reflect for a moment, you'll find that both the posted gag and my humorless comments are actually getting at the same underlying idea.
burgerbrain
It reads like a joke from somebody too young to remember ed. Vi/m minus the insert mode leaves you with ed/ex, and a lot of serious programming has been done with those.
Semiapies
Why are you using the venue of comments on a parody of just that "command-line aesthetic" (well, as much as old-school text editor UIs are "command lines") to ramble on about this topic?

That is what blog posts are for.

burgerbrain
If at any time you think to yourself, "Gee, I wish [vim/emacs] could do [foo]", then you should rejoice, for you now know that you have some more learning to do.
stcredzero
Does vim really do working sets, or can you just keep track of working sets by doing [a bunch of geeky stuff]?
burgerbrain
If '[doing a bunch of geeky stuff]' is a concept that is off-putting to you, then you really have no business using real editors like vim/emacs/vile.
stcredzero
It's a major piece of functionality. I take it you don't know of any that directly fulfills it.

Smart people might like [a bunch of geeky stuff].

Stupid people are proud to do the same [bunch of geeky stuff] over and over again, and are proud of their "skill" in doing so.

(FYI: I've been using EMACS since 1989)

risico
I stopped reading after "is an excellent replacement for vim.". You guys know that there's no such thing as an excellent replacement for vim :).

On the side, good joke!

bheckel
the screenshot is priceless
burgerbrain
I'm trying to read the source to this on it's codeplex page, but don't seem to be able to scroll down... http://fuv.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/9e0aaba... I had no idea people even used codeplex, and seeing this, I have to wonder why anyone would.

(using firefox 3.6.13)

winestock
Wikipedia says that the projects on that site focus on ASP and other Microsoft-centered products. That may be why you've never heard of it.
burgerbrain
I've certainly heard of it, I just haven't heard of people actually using it.
rprasad
A real programmer uses whatever editor he damn well pleases.