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A Brief Survey of the History of Editing Programs
Software developers spend a lot of time working with code. Over the past half-century of doing so, we’ve invented a lot of mechanisms that make that task easier and reduce the amount of friction...
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A Personal Journey in Editing Programs
Over the past year or so, I’ve spent a bit of time tinkering with text editors. It feels like I woke up one morning and was simply dissatisfied with what I was currently using. It certainly wasn’t...
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Breaking My Habits For Editing Programs
I’m a Unix guy, by upbringing. My first formative experiences in software development were on an early, Linux 1.x version of Debian. I’d used Windows, but always came back to Linux. When OS X got good...
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The Cadence and Flow of Editing Programs
I figured out why my trists with other editors often end up back at TextMate. It sounds a bit like this: Tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap; TAP; tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap; TAP; TAP;...
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