nbeversluis
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Comment · 1 year ago
Glad it worked out, thanks for the persistence. Glad to receive any feedback or questions either here or via the support form on urtext.co if you prefer.
Comment · 1 year ago
If you have the patience to try again, we are eliminating any package control channel from the process, it is now a .ZIP file download. See if these steps are any more successful: https://urtext.co/setup/sublime-text/
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, similar, and Leo was one of many inspirations.
Comment · 1 year ago
It was inspired partly by org-mode, but org-mode can be quite difficult for non LISP-users. This project has the priority of low barrier to entry, with a lot of the Python-specific functionality coming out-of-the-box, and abstracted away underneath the syntax of "frames and calls." Even those are can be used only as desired; as another poster mentioned, the project has wiki-like functionality without going any deeper than the basic syntax.
Comment · 1 year ago
This was helpful, thank you. We replaced the video on the homepage with some inline examples of at least syntax, and will soon post some examples of "real world" use.
Curious, how important would it be to you that the examples be readable with syntax highlighting and full tabbing/formatting in the browser? It is somewhat complicated to accomplish this and; present examples are mostly using manual inline styling.
Would examples projects on Github be helpful? It presents the same problem for syntax highlighting.
Comment · 1 year ago
This was great feedback, thank you. One of us in the development group is looking at NeoVim now as another possible implementation.
Comment · 1 year ago
This was helpful, thank you. We have replaced the home page video with inline examples of the syntax instead, and will be adding some real-world use examples in addition.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is helpful feedback, thank you. We are working on this possibility, and explaining a clearer separation between, as another poster mentioned, the Python library (which is headless) and a specific implementation (which requires some sort of text view that may have GUI features).
Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you for the feedback, very helpful. We are trying to solve this to make something close to a single-step install. The package at https://packagecontrol.io/search/urtext is now an installer only. See the readme at https://github.com/nbeversl/urtext_sublime_installer for information. It installs another package control channel and pulls the latest from there. Obviously this is not ideal, but it is the best we can do at the moment, unless you want to use Git and do it manually. Glad to hear any problems you run into.
Comment · 1 year ago
We have had trouble with package control, unfortunately. The package control bot was down for over two months without any notification to developers, and we did not know why the small pool of test users were unable to pull updates during this time. As a result, the package at https://packagecontrol.io/search/urtext is now an installer only. See the readme at https://github.com/nbeversl/urtext_sublime_installer.
It installs another package control channel and pulls the latest from there. Obviously this is not ideal. We tried to solve it with Package Control maintainers to no avail.
If you have time to test and give feedback on any problems, it is always appreciated.
Comment · 1 year ago
Similar, thanks for asking. Org-mode was one of many inspirations.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, inspired by org-mode and similar to it in some respects. It does have Python block execution, but the syntax is not that of org-mode.
Comment · 1 year ago
It was inspired by that and similar wiki-like tools.
Comment · 1 year ago
This was helpful feedback, thank you. Removed the video and added examples instead, and will be adding more.