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Almost ... but I use Notepad++ instead of Vim. And I had to implement the search for the first and the last character in a line according to the layout. It took me about 10 minutes :)

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This is super interesting :). Just curious, why don't you use a more advanced code editor than Notepad++?

Thanks :) I already discussed it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15924664

I'm always amazed when people ship cool software with what I judge to be crappy, obsolete, or even downright dangerous processes/practices. Yet even though I (by my own judgement) use superior processes and practices (VSCode + Git + CI pipelines, etc.), I haven't shipped anything nearly as cool.

A few others that come to mind are KeePass/Dwarf Fortress (no formal VCS), and GRRM (uses WordStar 4.0 in DOS)

He could have done this just as fast using GIT + CI. VSCode would have likely slowed him down with indexing, and he already knows where all his files are so there wouldn't be any gains from hopping around function declarations with the click of a mouse

Although you didn't pinpoint a single process that was inferior, knowing when to break processes is part of the experience.

Maybe you spend too much time on processes, getting things right, and less time on actually shipping something useful?

I kind of put vscode in the same category as notepad++. Actually, as a text editor, I think N++ has some nice features that vscode doesn't (like macros, I think).

VSCode definitely has macros :) I don't think there's much that notepad++ has but VSC doesn't

Ah, I checked there seems to be an extension that lets you write macros in a JSON file: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=geddski....

But there seems to have been no movement on this request for a functional macro feature: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/4490

Cool project. Playing around with it now and I love what I see. Must have been very fun learning about how to implement image filters and such along the way.

Any particular reason you choose Notepad++ over a full-featured IDE for a project of this scope?

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