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Yay! I wrote stdpath()!


I'm not even sure how to launch the Windows App Store since I removed it from my task bar.

I mainly play games so it isn't very useful.

The one time I searched for something, looking for an App Store item, it was pretty horrible (using the normal win-key, start typing search method).


It should be in your Start menu still, with the rest of your apps/programs (they just call it "Store" there). If you type "store" into the search bar, that should work too.


I like this idea. As Firefox tightens its sandbox security eventually things like It's All Text! won't work anymore.

I have some bugs open on the project and maybe someday I can switch from Vim to Atom comfortably.

I also hear that the It's All Text! author is lazy... every time I go home to the family. ;-)


Just wanted to say thanks for It's All Text, it's been a huge timesaver for me.


Hm. I love It's all text and use it all the time with my Firefox and Emacs setup.

Are you saying that you're its developer, and that you're not going to maintain it anymore?

That would certainly make me sad :(


I'm glad you like IAT! I am indeed the developer.

I'll continue to maintain IAT! as long as it can work in Firefox.

Firefox is changing its security model for extensions to make it more like Chrome's. Eventually, it will be impossible for IAT! to work as a pure extension anymore.

Over the years, I've been working on IATED (https://github.com/docwhat/iated) which was meant to be a replacement for IAT! -- a sort of IAT! next generation.

IATED would be two parts: a server to open the editor and an extension that talks to it.

But I've become distracted and disheartened by figuring out how to make it as simple to install and use as IAT! yet remain secure.

Some issues:

* I know enough security practices to know I'm not even close to being an expert. IATED has the potential to do really bad things if insecure. Letting a malicious page read random files on your file system (or worse, write them!) is the obvous vector.

* I would want to support the same platforms: Linux, OS X, and Windows. But each platform has very different requirements. Windows users are going to be confused if IATED is purely command line driven, for example.

* What language should I write it in. I have several false starts, with the current 'master' branch being JRuby. But depending on the JVM seems horrible. 'golang' is pretty new and maybe the way to go. I'm not sure.

* I work on IAT! mostly alone, though xOneca has been a great help. Writing IATED by myself is discouraging. I'd love to have someone who knows about golang or Windows or security help me write IATED.

Anyway, that's roughly the state of IAT! and IATED at the moment.

Ciao!


If you build it they will complain. ;-)


I hadn't heard of it before. Neat!


Corrections and clarifications are welcome!


> Puppet... It requires a central server (this may have changed recently)...

Puppet has had a masterless mode for awhile, e.g.:

https://github.com/jordansissel/puppet-examples/tree/master/...


IBM -- It's got a lot going for it, if you don't like one division/project there are bunch of other ones to look at.


I use backtick. It's great not having to reach for a control or alt key to change window.

It is a minor annoyance in markdown but in shell programming I use `$(...)` instead, since it can be hard to tell if a character is a backtick or a single quote.


My .vimrc does this. I haven't used it much in perl (mainly bash, ruby, and python) but it should work fine.

https://github.com/docwhat/homedir-vim/blob/master/vimrc/.vi...

The important bits are vim's built-in omnicomplete and neocachecompl

Omnicomplete by itself isn't bad. I haven't seen any excellent documentation explaining how it all works, but even without my .vimrc I use C-X-f a lot to complete filenames.

Ciao!


I have some code to keep the undo/backup/swaps in a sane place... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4331776/change-vim-swap-b...


Sometimes it's easier to see things line up.


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