kwood
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Comment · 6 years ago
It’s bizarre to me that nowadays an application can become frontmost application at all. When I switched to OSX back in the days, it was an advertised feature that this can’t happen the same way it does on Windows. If something wants attention, its icon bounced in the dock. Nothing more.
Comment · 6 years ago
Just turn off “Preferences->Mission Control->When switching to an application, switch to…”, that would be the setup you are asking for.
As for myself, I don’t use Spaces at all.
I have a keyboard shortcut for every application I use daily. CMD+CTRL plus a letter, M for Mail, T for terminal, B for browser… And so on.
Some keys are “overloaded” via Keyboard Maestro, like editor “E”: If MacVim is open, use it, otherwise open TextMate (Not using both much these days since switching to VSCode, which inherited “V” after I ditched Voodoopad :))
To make this work ergonomically, I have to be able to press CMD+CTRL with either the left or the right hand. So the first thing I do with new Macs, is remapping the right Option/Alt Key to Ctrl via Karabiner.
Using this system for the past 15 years, my worst fear is that one day Apple will close down its system so much, that this simple remap will no longer work - they are already on the hunt for kernel extensions…
Comment · 6 years ago
I'm currently writing a new client for RSS, which is dead. Framework of choice is Rails - which is also dead.
This thread inspires me to pull in some jQuery and change the project name to Graveyard.
Comment · 8 years ago
Ah, didn't realise there is a blog article about it. Thanks!
Comment · 8 years ago
Do you mind sharing what back office solution you guys found?
Did somewhat the same kind of research for our projects, but unfortunately didn't find anything decent that could really compete with ActiveAdmin/Rails Admin/Trestle in terms of features and maintenance…
Comment · 8 years ago
From what I remember, object spread came a year later and is ES7 (in case you need a starting point for research)
Comment · 8 years ago
It saves a whole keypress (because you need to go into multicursor mode first, then press Home / Ctrl+A to get to the beginning of the line.
Additionally, there is a case where if you don't select the last line until the end, you end up in a state where the last cursor is already at the beginning. If you press "Home" now, you end up having that last cursor at the beginning of the line - and the other ones at the indentation level (see https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/14919#issuecommen...)
(Disclaimer: Author of the mentioned plugin, so I am heavily biased against my own workflow and saving-keypresses-obsession :P)
Comment · 9 years ago
You don't have to type "end". Shameless self plug: I wrote an extension that closes everything automatically, inspired by a plugin for vim with the same name: endwise[1]
It's not 100% done yet, support for other languages is still missing. But it works.
[1]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=kaiwood....
Comment · 9 years ago
A good decision to focus on closing issues and doing more polish for the past month. The project moves fast, so taking a step back is really appreciated - before it gets out of control (as in: too buggy)
Comment · 9 years ago
How would you create a native GUI app on Linux for either Gnome or KDE, considering that GTK and Qt are not allowed by this definition?
And yes, you may think: "Easy, if a GTK app runs on Linux its native, if it runs on another platform, it's not". Does that mean JavaScript apps for Gnome[1] can be called native, because they have officially blessed bindings to the underlying framework/platform and are fully integrated with GTK?
If not, does that mean as soon as you use any kind of binding/bridging technology "nativeness" is ruled out? Think of C++ apps for Gnome, they use bindings…
If yes, we are only left with defining what the "official" way for doing GUI's on a given platform is. Whatever the vendor gives us and preinstalls on its OS? Ok, no Electron, it uses the Chrome rendering engine, that is definitely third party and NOT native!
But… What if I open a WebKit WebView from Objective-C[2] to render my HTML from there and write my logic making use of JavaScriptCore[3] on macOS? Are we native yet? :)
[1]: https://developer.gnome.org/gnome-devel-demos/stable/beginne...
[2]: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Co...