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I might have overlooked it, but it doesn't seem to say which OS Light Table will run on?

I would back it up for Linux, for example, but a Windows version wouldn't be useful for me.

I think it will be browser-based. He mentioned using codemirror in his post here: http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/04/15/light-tables-numbers...

It'll support windows/linux/mac

Thanks for the quick reply ibdknox! It might be useful to include it on the kickstarter page too?

This is too much. I've never seen an editor that runs well on the 3 of them. If you had said Mac or just Linux, I could believe you. I am really interested, but I am afraid of this becoming vaporware.

You should try out Sublime Text. I have used it on all three platforms and it works pretty much the same on all of them.

Agreed. One reason I use it is BECAUSE it runs the same across all platforms, and is the slickest editor on all of them. I do development in multiple OS/environments daily.

http://www.sublimetext.com

Are you saying that Sublime Text doesn't run well on Windows? I know it runs just fine on Mac and Linux.

Well, Sublime Text 1.x was only for Windows and was unique for rendering with DirectX, so one would hope it runs just fine there.

Chiming in that it works wonderfully on Windows, although I had some problems with font rendering being ugly. Maybe it's just that I don't use ClearType, but I had to change some of the font options to get a result I'm happy with.

"font_face": "droid sans mono", "font_options": [ "subpixel_antialias" ],

Ah, okay. I was about to say originally that it is entirely cross-platform, then I realized there was some qualitative language in the parent post and wondered if maybe the Windows flavor was just flawed somehow.

Thanks!

Ignoring the usual "vim", "emacs" etc., do try Sublime Text 2, if all you're after is an editor. So far it's proved unfailingly excellent for me :).

FWIW Chris stated in a previous post that Lighttable would be built on embedding CodeMirror, which, being web-based, should make creating cross-platform builds much easier.

I've been using Emacs for months both on Linux and Windows and it runs much smoother on Linux, its' intended habitat.

Hear, hear on ST2. I don't have to do anything more than let people see me use it before they switch.

It's not just an editor. I use it for Python development. There's a plugin that uses Rope to give you completion, go to function definition, etc:

https://github.com/JulianEberius/SublimeRope

Vim and Emacs seem to work fine if you have Gnu's win32 tools.

Vim, emacs, sublime, Komodo, gedit, jedit... And that is just off the top of my head.

>implying cross-platform gui toolkits don't exist

Since it will build on top of CodeMirror, I assume it will run on any OS that supports a modern browser.

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