[HN Gopher] The CodeRibbon code editor plugin
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The CodeRibbon code editor plugin
Author : azhenley
Score : 61 points
Date : 2021-10-11 17:12 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (utk-se.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (utk-se.github.io)
| what_is_orcas wrote:
| Plugins for code-editors isn't my thing, is there a reason that
| you chose Atom instead of VSCode or Sublime?
|
| (this looks like a cool idea, by the way)
| habitue wrote:
| My guess is that VSCode tightly controls the editor views for
| performance reasons and probably doesn't expose an API that
| allows you to do this.
|
| You can do arbitrary things in webviews, but they're kinda slow
| and you might have to completely reimplement the editor for
| this to work
| btown wrote:
| VSCode's general approach to limiting the visual
| customization options available to extensions (which is very
| rational since it allows significant ongoing flexibility to
| optimize performance) is part of the problem, but it's even
| worse since VSCode has only in the past 1.5 months begun work
| on a read-only API to even read the set of open tabs, see
| https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/15178 and its 93
| (!) comments - development of a read-write API is still
| ongoing in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/133532
| . At the moment, it's impossible to even write a reliable
| extension that saves and restores open tabs and their
| locations to a given state!
| jermaustin1 wrote:
| I know the original (Patchworks) author - He made this as an
| intern and working on his PhD, and VS Code wasn't a thing at
| the time he. It is now being worked on by HIS students, and
| they have some VS Code work being done, but I don't think it is
| in a usable state yet.
| petecooper wrote:
| I use Atom as my daily driver on a 2012-era Mac mini. It works
| just fine for me, but I do wonder how much life there is left in
| it, especially since development changed pace after Microsoft
| acquired GitHub. Seeing plugins for Atom almost makes me
| nostalgic, and there's a bit more life to be squeezed out before
| the sunset.
|
| I'd be curious to hear what other people are using for their IDE
| on lower end hardware. As I say, Atom works fine and I personally
| appreciate the open source nature of it, but I'm very open to
| alternatives.
| Firehawke wrote:
| I'd moved to VSCode because even on higher end hardware I could
| feel a substantial improvement compared to Atom. If you don't
| like the MS integrations, there's VSCodium.
| jermaustin1 wrote:
| I actually use code-server which is VSCode in the browser and
| hosted on your own server. It works on my ancient 2011 Dell
| latitude running ChromiumOS.
| stephc_int13 wrote:
| This is a great idea. It should be implemented in Sublime text.
| Not as a plug-in but as a something rendered by the main app, for
| performance.
| smallerfish wrote:
| `ctrl e` in intellij + getting rid of the editor tabs is a
| reasonable way of dealing with this.
| tempodox wrote:
| The title should mention "for Atom".
| awestroke wrote:
| Would love something similar for VSCode
| dubya wrote:
| Looks like it's being worked on, but has a big (NOT YET
| WORKING) disclaimer:
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| https://github.com/utk-se/VSCodeRibbon
| Fnoord wrote:
| I would love this for ST.
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