Godit - A very religious text editor written in Go

https://github.com/nsf/godit

by obilgic • 13 years ago

66 74 13 years ago

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alisnic• 13 years ago

"the tab size is always an equivalent to 8 spaces/characters" - our faiths are incompatible

user3487• 13 years ago

Fork it!

lclarkmichalek• 13 years ago

Print the diff and nail it to nsf's door!

mbrock• 13 years ago

Obviously the tab character should move forward to the next column divisible by the tab size -- it's not just a replacement for a fixed number of spaces!

nsf14• 13 years ago

That's just my english. Of course I meant that the tab size is the same as the size of 8 space characters. And it sounds like the tab _character_ is an equivalent to 8 spaces, which is not true. Sorry for confusing description.

klapinat0r• 13 years ago

https://github.com/nsf/godit/blob/master/godit.go#L14

> - tabstop_length = 8

> + tabstop_length = 4

stiff5• 13 years ago

The so-called Plan9 way of providing customizable features.

vidarh• 13 years ago

It is clearly time for a religious war.

vanderZwan• 13 years ago

It's more like this if you ask me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE

(I bet half of you knows what movie clip that is before clicking)

paulnechifor• 13 years ago

I'm also guessing syntax highlighting isn't a planned feature.

nsf14• 13 years ago

Correct, I think it's useless. :D

BitMastro• 13 years ago

Isn't 8 spaces the default spacing in gofmt?

wting• 13 years ago

`gofmt` uses tabs, and is one of the few languages where it is idiomatic to use tabs rather than spaces.

dbaupp3• 13 years ago

Is it a Go thing to have no file organisation? (Is this tooling sufficiently nice that this is manageable?)

nsf14• 13 years ago

Do you want me to write code like that? https://github.com/Mikkeren/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition

TheZenPsycho• 13 years ago

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/black-or-white

timclark• 13 years ago

go does have file organisation. You can create packages in directories and nest them and the tooling will handle it easily.

rbonvall• 13 years ago

A couple of weeks ago I was searching for go programs in order to see examples of how I could organize a toy project I was starting. I found godit and after reading the source I think it is a good way to organize a small project. Eventually you can start moving functionality to packages once they grow big enough.

And the tooling helps. There is no Makefile and no instructions, so I tried `go build` and it just works.

frozenport• 13 years ago

  And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
  ~ 2 Corinthians 11:15

Emacs is the devil

human_error• 13 years ago

I think Gomacs or Gemacs would've been better name. It looks so similar to emacs.

nsf14• 13 years ago

Perhaps, but it's too late to change the name.

buster• 13 years ago

8 characters tab width is insane. :(

mich414• 13 years ago

Roundness of the Earth is equally insane. But both are facts.

  m@sauron:~ $ echo -e '\tx'
          x

laumars2• 13 years ago

tab width can be any size you want, it's just many text rendering systems default to 8.

Personally I prefer 4 chars. In my opinion it looks tidier when reading back source code.

yati• 13 years ago

From PEP-8, "Use 4 spaces per indentation level. For really old code that you don't want to mess up, you can continue to use 8-space tabs." [1].

While I agree on ending the '\r\n' mania(which itself is a very hard task), pushing tab stops down my throat is not cool.

[1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

arnarbi2• 13 years ago

Exactly. The insane thing is to use tab characters to indent code.

struppi• 13 years ago

I don't habe my copy of "Code Complete" here, but AFAICR it cites a study that says code comprehension is best at 3-4 charakter indent.

So, yes, a tab size of 8 is insane...

silon3• 13 years ago

It's the only correct one. But it should have nothing to do with indent size.

densh• 13 years ago

Performance is truly impressive. And I really love how small the codebase actually is. I've been dreaming about writing my own text editor for quite some time. This will really help me to get started, thanks a lot nsf!

p.s. panic on opening a directory isn't really a best way to say that you don't support viewing directories...

nsf14• 13 years ago

I agree this panic is quite annoying sometimes. Will make a proper error message when I have time. A very minor issue at the moment. You see I'm not really actively working on it anymore, I use the godit for all of my text editing tasks and if some feature/bug annoys me a lot in godit - I fix it. Directory opening by accident happens sometimes, lol, and when you see a panic message, you panic as well, but then phew.. :)

jaequery• 13 years ago

why not just emacs?

pekk• 13 years ago

Maybe someone would rather rewrite their editor in Go than elisp.

nsf14• 13 years ago

Emacs is big, startup is slow and you have to carry a pile of elisp scripts which fulfil your feature needs. All features has to be written in elisp of course that could be an issue too. Just a matter of taste.

martinced2• 13 years ago

"Emacs is big, startup is slow..."

Please. I don't even bother compiling my .el to .elc and I've got a shitload of modes and a gigantic .emacs file (which I should split btw).

Emacs, from the scratch, takes two seconds to fully load, including all the modes and my solarized color theme etc. I'm not talking about always running an Emacs server to which you can connect in a split second: no, I'm talking about a cold start.

It's 2013 and that's on a Core i5 3450s with 4 GB of RAM. Hardly a speed/memory demon.

If I was motivated I'd compile all my .el to .elc and always run emacs in server/daemon mode to connect lightweight windows to it but why bother!? The friggin' entire thing launches in two seconds!

Regarding the "Emacs is big", I know the joke was funny when people, 20 years ago, were writing that Emacs meant "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" but in this day and age where most devs are using IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse or other super-fat IDEs, you have to admit that Emacs is really in the "very very very lightweight camp".

Yes, you need lot of elisp scripts: and preferrably as much as possible written by yourself, because this means you're tailoring your editor to your needs, not the other way around.

nemo1618• 13 years ago

if only it had Vim bindings instead of Emacs bindings :/

I've been searching for something less bloated than Vim for a while (straight vi doesn't cut it).

martinced2• 13 years ago

But why oh why immitate the Emacs shortcuts?

I love Emacs. I use it all the time. But the default shortcuts are the most stupid thing ever. That Control-x (C-x in Emacs lingua) is insanity at its best: due to the stupid non-symmetric layout of typical staggered keyboards 'x' in itself is one the hardest key to type (the equivalent with the right hand is way easier : '>' on a QWERTY keyboard). I'm a touch-typist and to hit 'x' I need to move my whole hand a bit. To hit '>' I just need to move on finger. I blame this on the fact that keyboard are using a staggered layout instead of a matrix or symmetric layout but whatever.

Then Control. Zomg. Control has to be accessed with the left pinky if you're a touch-typist: some very touch-typist friendly keyboards like the HHKB Pro 2 don't even botter with a right control key.

So to hit "C-x" you're supposed to use the two leftmost fingers of your left hand: this alone has to be one of the most RSI inducing keyboard shortcut ever.

But in Emacs everything is configurable. So I'm using "C-," to replace "C-x" and "M-," to replace "M-x".

It shall never cease to amaze me (in a very sad way) that when people "copy Emacs", the first thing they copy are the Emacs shortcuts. The Emacs shortcuts are the lamest thing ever in Emacs.

I love Emacs but I hate its default shortcuts. Emacs is not about its shortcuts: Emacs is about tailoring it to your needs by using Lisp.

I'm also wondering why that constant loss of energy in editors which shall never produce anything close to what one million lines of elisp code are providing. I'd much rather see that energy spend on creating a bridge for the Go-completion facility in Emacs, the real thing.

nsf14• 13 years ago

I hope no emacs users use control, there is a caps lock for that.

It's ok to disagree with godit, it's not meant for everybody. Frankly, just for me. And if someone else likes it, I don't mind sharing it.

Go-completion facility in Emacs is available. `github.com/nsf/gocode` has two plugins for emacs (auto-complete-mode and company-mode).

Godit - A very religious text editor written in Go

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