![]() Years ago, I started aspiring to write most of my commit messages following Tim Pope’s guidance on commit messages. Everything felt like VS Code was trying to obfuscate it’s underlying systems. First, it felt constraining and off-putting. I also gave Visual Studio Code ( VS Code □)Ī spin, and found it disconcerting. Not one to fear changing editors, I started looking. I had begun noticing more and more bugs and breaks in Atom. I also thought about revising Textmate as the owner later released it as open source.įorward to earlier this year. At times, I’d try out a tutorial, but it never stuck. However, the modal nature of editing felt foreign. It was open source and acted enough like Sublime, that I switched.ĭuring this time, I dabbled with Vim ( vim □) Then, as I engaged more and more in open source projects, I started wanting an open source text editor. At the time, Sublime was positioning as a Textmate replacement. The search a project function started misbehaving and gridning projects to a halt.Īnd switched. I used it and loved it, but it began to lag. And in my hubris, I didn’t step through the Emacs tutorial.Īt the time Textmate was closed source. So I didn’t have a mental model that would have further nudged me towards an integrated text editor. I had, during my professional life, often relied on GUI views into files, systems, and processes. I wasn’t aware of how useful a shell environment could be In the years I’d learn more. It had a beautiful user-interface and required little effort to learn. Within a week, our organization adopted Ruby on Rails.Īt that time, I adopted Textmate ( TM □)Īs my editor. In December 2005, my company hopped in a van and drove to Chicago to learn about Django ( Django □) I didn’t take the time to walk through the Emacs tutorial, and left Emacs behind.Ī few months into my new job, I switched languages and paradigms again. I wanted my editor to behave like other Graphical User Interface ( GUI □) During that exploration, I learned of Emacs from Carl Meyer.Ĭarl is a friend of mine from high school, and has contributed a lot to the world.Īt the time I had three young children, I had just changed jobs, changed programming languages, and couldn’t wrap my head around Emacs. I spent a bit of time exploring my options. I needed to find an editor to help me with the task. We wrote in Report Program Generator programming language from IBM ( IBM RPG □)Īnd Cool Plex, which looked a lot of meta-code and what I now know to be RDF TriplesĪt my new job, I was writing web-facing applications using open source technology and deploying to Linux. ![]() I was leaving the walled garden of an Integrated Development Environment ( IDE □)įor a proprietary language that deployed to an IBM System iSeries ( AS/400 □) ![]()
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