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Tine Text Editor

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110 pointsbwidlar14 comments

I love passion projects!

A complete text editor, written in a language that is also by the same person. This requires dedication. Who cares if it's maintainable by others or if it's a worthwhile effort, its aim is clearly stated as self use.

If anybody wants to see how it looks, there is a screenshot at the language repo. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/travisdoor/bl/master/logo/...

video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE9m_v0OPqE

Thanks for the link. I don't like videos tagged as "made for children" because videos tagged that way aren't able to be put in a playlist or "watch later" queues. That's a YouTube thing, but YouTube doesn't provide any additional views or promotion to have it tagged that way for educational videos like this. In fact, it likely will get less.

Yes, it's unfortunate. I guess makers assume 'made for children' is the same as suitable for children. And so 'not made for' means unsuitable.

Youtube should add some explanatory text around this question when publishing.

> I don't like videos tagged as "made for children" because videos tagged that way aren't able to be put in a playlist or "watch later" queues. That's a YouTube thing, but YouTube doesn't provide any additional views or promotion to have it tagged that way for educational videos like this.

Could this be YouTube trying to do something about toddlers getting hooked on videos, and then rabbit-holed into ever more non-child-safe stuff by the algorithm? There's been a bit of an "Internet Panic" about that recently. Or is this on the contrary (part of) the reason for the problem?

Great job, and written in your own custom language as well! Did you use piece tables by any chance as a data structure? And did you have any reference for how to write a text editor or did you just invent it all yourself?

this is sweet, ty for going opensource.

> The main goal of this editor is to keep the focus on the text editing and not be distracted too much by buttons, tabs, menus, and animations… I used Emacs a lot.

I am sure emacs can be easily configured not to have too many animations. Even on Windows.

Well. Most terminal based editor works like that.

The full quote was not related to visual distraction (3 lines of config remove it all in Emacs) but rather:

> I used Emacs a lot so my Ctrl key is remapped to CapsLock. I think such Control key position is way better and ergonomic, so consider do the same.

> 3 lines of config remove it all in Emacs

Exactly. (Knowing emacs does not keep me, either, from wanting to write a text editor of my own, no matter what "the main goal" of that might be.)

Why are there static libraries committed in the modules folder? That doesn't seem very open source. Also what is the license of this I see the legal thing but it looks like a bunch of font licenses. I didn't look too carefully maybe I just miss details.

Nowhere does it say it's open source? Just because a project is on Github doesn't mean it's open source software.

There is a LEGAL.md with the following:

"This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:

The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required.

Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software.

This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution."

Sounds like open source to me.

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