Show HN: A general tree editor component – Vim shortcuts, drag and drop

http://jaredly.github.io/treed/

by jaredly • 12 years ago

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Doesn't work in Firefox, but it works in Chrome. Nice project.

kleiba• 12 years ago

While Chrome is a very popular browser, I wonder if you can still call this editor "general" if it doesn't work cross-platform?!

phorese• 12 years ago

I'd guess "general" refers to the trees themselves (labels, arity) and not the platform.

themodelplumber• 12 years ago

Nice work, so glad to see someone doing work in this area. Thanks for sharing it. It was a little disorienting (as a novice Vim user) to press return after labeling a node, only to create a new node, which then remains as an empty node after I switched back to normal mode. But for all I know, that's the whole point of...something :-)

michaelmior• 12 years ago

I assume the idea is to allow you to quickly insert many nodes without having to continually toggle from normal mode to insert mode.

jaredly3• 12 years ago

Hmm, I hadn't thought of removing the node if you never typed anything. Good idea.

Arnor• 12 years ago

Very cool. I do find myself going for dd trying to delete nodes and gg trying to get back to the top.

jaredly3• 12 years ago

=) that's coming.

codehero• 12 years ago

Doesn't work when Vimium extension is enabled...though this project makes we want to disable it.

NoodleIncident• 12 years ago

I'm not familiar with Vimium, but Vimperator for Firefox will stop responding to everything when you press the "insert" key. There might be something equivalent for your plugin.

dreyfiz• 12 years ago

It worked for me when I typed an i to get Vimium into its insert mode. Although that is getting a little ridiculous.

davvid• 12 years ago

This is nice! A few comments:

When you are on a closed node, hitting "l" (lower-case L) would be a nice way to open that node.

When you are on a opened node, hitting "h" would be a nice way to close that node.

It seems nicely vimish. I have a very similar set of vim-ish keyboard hotkeys on the tree widgets in git-cola.

jaredly3• 12 years ago

alt-l opens, alt-h closes currently. h takes you to the parent of the current node.

sitkack• 12 years ago

Reminds me of TreeSheets http://strlen.com/treesheets/docs/screenshots.html

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