Re: [dev] Experimental editor

2011-06-17 Thread Nick
Quoth Rob: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 07:15:22AM -0800, Andrew Hills wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Nick wrote: > > > But if we're thinking about > > > breaking from the terminal, how would remote editing work? > > > Some sort of ssh piping from / to the file on the server? > > > I hav

Re: [dev] Microsoft considers harmful...

2011-06-17 Thread hiro
On the other hand with html5 we will finally have a good reason to ditch the web altogether since it won't be good enough any more. I will look into gopher again... As I don't need in-browser video/audio (never understood the html5 webm craze) I use a few scripts for direct playback on on tv and s

Re: [dev] [dwm] [patch] bugfix in status bar width problem

2011-06-17 Thread garbeam
Hi Rudy, On 13 June 2011 10:45, Rudy Matela wrote: > There is a bug in the last version of dwm (verified on 5.8, 5.8.2 and > r1549) regarding the bar width. By reading the BUGS file, I can see > that it may be similar to the bug reported by "voltaic". In my case, > it appears whenever I change th

Re: [dev] Re: [dwm] [patch] bugfix in status bar width problem

2011-06-17 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, On 17 June 2011 19:39, Rudy Matela wrote: > Anyone has the same bug as me? Sorry for the silence, Anselm doesn't seem to have the time to apply patches atm. At least one person on IRC had a (similar but different) problem which was solved by your patch, so I don't think you're alone. I woul

Re: [dev] Microsoft considers harmful...

2011-06-17 Thread Sean Howard
The base problem is simple: The Web is a hammer. It's a nice pretty hammer, but there's a lot of things that aren't nails. Somebody claiming to be Mate Nagy wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 01:55:37PM -0400, Bryan Bennett wrote: > > Let's face it - the web is no longer focused on Gopher-like info

[dev] Re: [dwm] [patch] bugfix in status bar width problem

2011-06-17 Thread Rudy Matela
Anyone has the same bug as me? On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 05:45, Rudy Matela wrote: > Hello, > > There is a bug in the last version of dwm (verified on 5.8, 5.8.2 and > r1549) regarding the bar width. By reading the BUGS file, I can see > that it may be similar to the bug reported by "voltaic". In m

Re: [dev] Microsoft considers harmful...

2011-06-17 Thread Mate Nagy
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 01:55:37PM -0400, Bryan Bennett wrote: > Let's face it - the web is no longer focused on Gopher-like information > presentation and gathering any longer. Live with it. The Chrome browser source code is 155MB without libraries. Its you and similar people who made the web to

Re: [dev] Microsoft considers harmful...

2011-06-17 Thread Bryan Bennett
AS a web developer, I'll +1 Kurt on this one. The doctype bullshit is gone, and we now FINALLY have a "one version to bind them". XHTML vs HTML is stupid as hell. We finally get a modern, "all in one" solution that doesn't require the XML bullshit that XHTML 1.0 needs. Granted - there's some shit i

Re: [dev] Experimental editor

2011-06-17 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 17 June 2011 15:24, Martin Kühl wrote: > If "ex mode" were just a command buffer, you could > use every piece of functionality your editor provided, maybe even open > another command buffer operating on the current one. I'd not even considered this possibility, but you're right, it would work

Re: [dev] Microsoft considers harmful...

2011-06-17 Thread hiro
> Not true! html5 frees us from xml bullshit, and most doctype idiocy. Nope, all xml bullshit is included to be compatible. Just like the fucking Microsoft bugfixes.

Re: [dev] Microsoft considers harmful...

2011-06-17 Thread hiro
If I understand it correctly webgl just implements all these stupid html5 features. They never managed 2d in any timely, consistent manner and now they complicate it further with 3d? I want html developers to leave me the fuck alone and get a life.

Re: [dev] Experimental editor

2011-06-17 Thread Michael Farnbach
Just a few points from random things in this thread... Someone said they want cut and paste to be put to tmux, X, etc... I don't know that X or tmux have anything more than mark and copy to clipboard. The rest is handled by the program in them. Also the modeless second window isn't a bad idea, b

Re: [dev] Microsoft considers harmful...

2011-06-17 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:46 PM, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > html5 is everything bad we ever had in the web together in one > enormous steaming pile of shit. > If there is anything not at least 99% stupid in there it must be a > very lucky coincidence, just some of thousand random bugs.

Re: [dev] Experimental editor

2011-06-17 Thread Andrew Hills
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Rob wrote: > sshfs? That's what I use, personally, but some people hate it, and it's not always available. I prefer to see the network latency when I'm actually reading or writing the file rather than seeing my editor freeze, though, so I always use sshfs or scp.

Re: [dev] Microsoft considers harmful...

2011-06-17 Thread hiro
On 17.06.2011, Kurt H Maier wrote: > html5 and webgl are not the same thing > > only one of them is *completely* stupid html5 is everything bad we ever had in the web together in one enormous steaming pile of shit. If there is anything not at least 99% stupid in there it must be a very lucky coin

Re: [dev] Microsoft considers harmful...

2011-06-17 Thread ilf
On 06-17 16:40, Rob wrote: Sure, they don't have a leg to stand on in this area Not to defend Microsoft, but we're not in the Ninetees any more. Since Vista, they have invested millions into security and flew in almost every internationally known security researcher to break their stuff. The

Re: [dev] Microsoft considers harmful...

2011-06-17 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Rob wrote: > Honestly, I think they have a point. Sure, they don't have a leg to stand on > in > this area, but look at Flash. All that allows is interaction with the mouse > and keyboard + video and sound playback, but not a week goes by without yet > another ex

Re: [dev] Microsoft considers harmful...

2011-06-17 Thread Nick
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 04:40:21PM +0100, Rob wrote: > It's a shame they didn't go into more detail, at the moment it could just be > FUD spreading. https://lwn.net/Articles/444672/?format=printable The comments are also worth reading

Re: [dev] Microsoft considers harmful...

2011-06-17 Thread Rob
Honestly, I think they have a point. Sure, they don't have a leg to stand on in this area, but look at Flash. All that allows is interaction with the mouse and keyboard + video and sound playback, but not a week goes by without yet another exploit being uncovered in it. That could just be because t

Re: [dev] Experimental editor

2011-06-17 Thread Rob
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 07:15:22AM -0800, Andrew Hills wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Nick wrote: > > But if we're thinking about > > breaking from the terminal, how would remote editing work? > > Some sort of ssh piping from / to the file on the server? > > I haven't thought this throu

Re: [dev] Experimental editor

2011-06-17 Thread Nick
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 07:15:22AM -0800, Andrew Hills wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Nick wrote: > > But if we're thinking about > > breaking from the terminal, how would remote editing work? > > Some sort of ssh piping from / to the file on the server? > > I haven't thought this throu

Re: [dev] Experimental editor

2011-06-17 Thread Andrew Hills
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Nick wrote: > But if we're thinking about > breaking from the terminal, how would remote editing work? > Some sort of ssh piping from / to the file on the server? > I haven't thought this through, but it's certainly a usecase > which would be nice to cover. scp -

Re: [dev] Experimental editor

2011-06-17 Thread Nick
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:49:12AM -0400, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Nick wrote: > > I haven't used it, > > so don't know it's level of suckiness, but might cairo work? > > > No. Guessed that would be the case, just throwing it out there ;) Connor's stuff tends to

Re: [dev] Experimental editor

2011-06-17 Thread Mate Nagy
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:49:12AM -0400, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Nick wrote: > > I haven't used it, > > so don't know it's level of suckiness, but might cairo work? > > > No. maybe check out animator: http://repo.hu/projects/animator/ disclaimers: - i'm the aut

Re: [dev] Experimental editor

2011-06-17 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Nick wrote: > I haven't used it, > so don't know it's level of suckiness, but might cairo work? No. -- # Kurt H Maier

Re: [dev] Experimental editor

2011-06-17 Thread Nick
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 03:16:00PM +0100, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > I'm writing a simple UI abstraction library, sort of like swk meets > draw.c, in that it's completely platform-agnostic (so we can port it > to other things than Xlib), but doesn't use widgets, you just draw > things. This has the

Re: [dev] Experimental editor

2011-06-17 Thread Martin Kühl
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:07, markus schnalke wrote: > [2011-06-15 14:47] Connor Lane Smith >> On 15 June 2011 12:26, markus schnalke wrote: > In vi, you enter insert mode, which you consider a real mode, with `i' > and leave it with Escape. Likewise you enter ex mode (i.e. last-line > mode), w

Re: [dev] Experimental editor

2011-06-17 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 17 June 2011 10:07, markus schnalke wrote: > I disagree with this analogy. Shift is no quasimode. Yes it is. > Likewise you enter ex mode (i.e. last-line > mode), which you consider a quasimode No, you misunderstand completely: I don't consider ex mode `quasi'. What I said was that in my edi

Re: [dev] Microsoft considers harmful...

2011-06-17 Thread Josh Rickmar
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:00:25PM +0200, hiro wrote: > http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/06/16/webgl-considered-harmful.aspx > > They learned their lesson and I want a button for disabling HTML5 in my > browser. > They haven't learned anything. http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/

Re: [dev] Microsoft considers harmful...

2011-06-17 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 6:00 AM, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/06/16/webgl-considered-harmful.aspx > > They learned their lesson and I want a button for disabling HTML5 in my > browser. html5 and webgl are not the same thing only one of them is

Re: [dev] Microsoft considers harmful...

2011-06-17 Thread Andrew Hills
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:00 AM, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/06/16/webgl-considered-harmful.aspx >From the article: "In its current form, WebGL is not a technology Microsoft can endorse from a security perspective." It doesn't sound any worse

Re: [dev] Microsoft considers harmful...

2011-06-17 Thread Guilherme Lino
it called afraid, microsoft haz a lot why would the platform with more vulnerabilities talking about that they want to keep with their html5 render engine, witch cost them a lot On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:00 AM, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/201

[dev] Microsoft considers harmful...

2011-06-17 Thread hiro
http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/06/16/webgl-considered-harmful.aspx They learned their lesson and I want a button for disabling HTML5 in my browser.

Re: [dev] Experimental editor

2011-06-17 Thread markus schnalke
[2011-06-17 09:54] David Tweed > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:51 AM, David Tweed wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Nicolai Waniek wrote: > >> On 06/17/2011 10:37 AM, markus schnalke wrote: > >>> For the same reason we want Unix's manifold toolchain and for the same > >>> reason we want se

Re: [dev] Experimental editor

2011-06-17 Thread markus schnalke
[2011-06-15 14:47] Connor Lane Smith > On 15 June 2011 12:26, markus schnalke wrote: >> What's the difference between a mode and a ``quasimode''? > > What's the difference between shift and caps lock? I disagree with this analogy. Shift is no quasimode. In vi, you enter insert mode, which you c

Re: [dev] Experimental editor

2011-06-17 Thread David Tweed
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:51 AM, David Tweed wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Nicolai Waniek wrote: >> On 06/17/2011 10:37 AM, markus schnalke wrote: >>> For the same reason we want Unix's manifold toolchain and for the same >>> reason we want several programming languages: Because ``One

Re: [dev] Experimental editor

2011-06-17 Thread David Tweed
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Nicolai Waniek wrote: > On 06/17/2011 10:37 AM, markus schnalke wrote: >> For the same reason we want Unix's manifold toolchain and for the same >> reason we want several programming languages: Because ``One fits all'' >> is an illusion. > > > Then try to figure ou

Re: [dev] Experimental editor

2011-06-17 Thread Nicolai Waniek
On 06/17/2011 10:37 AM, markus schnalke wrote: > For the same reason we want Unix's manifold toolchain and for the same > reason we want several programming languages: Because ``One fits all'' > is an illusion. Then try to figure out some basic tools that you can glue together to form a fully fun

Re: [dev] Experimental editor

2011-06-17 Thread markus schnalke
[2011-06-15 08:12] Peter John Hartman > > Why would you want several editors? For the same reason we want Unix's manifold toolchain and for the same reason we want several programming languages: Because ``One fits all'' is an illusion. > The problem with vi and mutt is that > they have all thes

Re: [dev] Experimental editor

2011-06-17 Thread Guilherme Lino
hi, > > Whether or not your keyboard has a page up/down key is a bit moot; > > the point is that an editor should have under 10 keybindings: up, > > down, left, right (C-hjkl), page up and down (C-uv), save and quite > > (and search and search-and-replace (if you are feeling luxurious)). > you are