[HN Gopher] That Editor
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       That Editor
        
       Author : phplovesong
       Score  : 103 points
       Date   : 2024-06-28 07:44 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | phplovesong wrote:
       | It is a programming editor for DOS environments. More
       | specifically, it is something that looks like a programming
       | editor for DOS environments, modelled after the editor called
       | Joe.
       | 
       | For the why, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMBQmhO8KqI
        
       | petercooper wrote:
       | I must take this opportunity for anyone who is unfamiliar with
       | 'Bisqwit' to take a look at his YouTube channel. For over a
       | decade he has released, admittedly in spurts, some of the most
       | clever programming videos I've seen. This is a sky-high IQ guy
       | who codes for the love of coding, not for money or career
       | advancement (indeed, he was a bus driver when he was most
       | prolific with his videos).
       | 
       | Small 3D engines, C trickery, reverse engineering old video
       | games, soundchip coding, creating a terminal emulator.. all that
       | sort of gritty, low level fun stuff. Go to
       | https://www.youtube.com/@Bisqwit/videos - hit "Popular", and find
       | something that catches your eye.
       | 
       | Fanboy over and out.. :-)
        
         | jimbob45 wrote:
         | His Portal 2 maps are all as mind-bending as you'd expect too.
         | 
         | https://steamcommunity.com/id/bisqwit/myworkshopfiles/?appid...
        
         | bajsejohannes wrote:
         | > admittedly in spurts
         | 
         | I haven't watched his videos, but this seems like a sign of
         | quality. Making a video when you have a great idea vs making a
         | video a week or day just to feed the algorithm.
        
         | throwawayk7h wrote:
         | I love his content, and his contributions to speedrunning, TAS,
         | reverse engineering, etc. although his obsession with writing
         | diatribes against Islam weirds me out.
         | 
         | https://bisqwit.iki.fi/
         | 
         | https://bisqwit.iki.fi/story/apologetics/islamicdeception/
        
           | bitwize wrote:
           | The fact that he's Jewish _might_ have something to do with
           | that...
        
             | murphyslab wrote:
             | You claim, as a "fact", that someone who wrote this [0],
             | identifies as Jewish?
             | 
             | [0]: https://bisqwit.iki.fi/jesus/
        
               | bitwize wrote:
               | Well, obviously not anymore, but since he belongs to a
               | sect of Christianity (Hebraic Roots) that incorporates
               | Torah law and certain Jewish traditions, can you blame me
               | for getting a little confused?
               | 
               | I hadn't seen that article.
        
           | AnonCoward42 wrote:
           | Can you cite something of hate from him. Something that is
           | not founded in facts. I often hear about hate against Islam
           | and all the stuff, but it more often than not turns out to be
           | mostly factual.
        
       | Nevin1901 wrote:
       | You can hear him talk more about his editor choices in this
       | YouTube video: https://youtu.be/ZMBQmhO8KqI (That Editor is
       | around the 12:00 mark)
        
       | hnthrowaway0328 wrote:
       | I have always wanted a Mario walking in the menu bar of my IDE.
        
       | mkl wrote:
       | > I could not binary-patch Borland C++ to perfectly cooperate
       | with screens that have other width than 80 characters. So I was
       | cornered and had no choice but to make my own editor. I could no
       | longer remember how to use Turbo Vision, and I couldn't bother to
       | study, so I wrote the editor entirely from scratch.
       | 
       | That reasoning doesn't make much sense. I think he just wanted to
       | write an editor (which is fine). I'm pretty sure I used DJGPP's
       | RHIDE with 132 columns, and doing Turbo Vision stuff following
       | the excellent documentation is pretty simple.
        
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