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Visual Studio Code
transient | Visual Studio Code | |
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24 | 2,856 | |
610 | 158,773 | |
1.0% | 0.9% | |
9.3 | 10.0 | |
7 days ago | 4 days ago | |
Emacs Lisp | TypeScript | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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transient
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On Desktop GUI Minimalism
> Even in this article just a few sentences after stating we should start from first principles he then jumps into the assumption of the "desktop".
Agree. Although I can see how the idea of "first principles" can be a very difficult starting point. A blank sheet of paper is a scary monster.
There's a huge breadth and depth of non-"desktop" GUIs out there, some (like smartphones) are even wildly successful. It's good to explore them for inspiration. Some of my favourites:
- Arcan (https://arcan-fe.com/about/) - I won't attempt to summarize, just dive in!
- SailfishOS (https://sailfishos.org/) - mobile UI focused on interaction through gestures / swipes; I've used it as my daily driver for a couple years.
- Speaking of mobiles, classic Nokia UIs allowed you to navigate to a specific item in the menu by pressing the corresponding digit on the dial pad. Once you learned where a particular item is, accessing e.g. your SMS inbox was extremely quick.
- Apple Watch / WatchOS (https://www.apple.com/watchos/) - I've always loved the idea of a device where one of the primary interaction methods was a wheel/dial of some sort. The watch even gives you context-sensitive tactile feedback.
- ZUIs in general (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface) and the work of Jef Raskin in particular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_(software) - this is the guy who helped design the Macintosh, but his other work took a radically different route.
- Magit (https://magit.vc/). Many common git operations are reduced to a couple of keystrokes; the obscure features are more discoverable, and the cumbersome procedures (such as rebasing, or staging individual hunks) become simple and intuitive. Also check out transient (https://github.com/magit/transient), which is the "UI toolkit" that powers Magit.
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Warp is a modern, Rust-based terminal with AI built in
True, and I'd personally rather move away from Emacs to something more modern. (Helix is great, although I appreciate the irony of it being terminal-only, while Emacs supports several different window systems natively.) Magit is the only real reason I'm sticking with Emacs.
Magit itself is powered by <https://github.com/magit/transient>, which I see more as an interaction paradigm than a library; it could enable more ergonomic interaction with other stateful tools that are typically native to the command line / terminal (such as docker/kubectl, systemctl, mpd/mpc, etc). Rather than using Emacs as a middle layer, Transient could build on top of pluggable native toolkit backends, such as Cocoa, Gtk, Win32, or even web or a terminal.
We continue investing into terminals because the terminal remains the lowest common denominator of interacting with a computer. On the other end of the spectrum we have Electron, which has very clear and obvious downsides. I think there is low-hanging fruit with amazing ROI somewhere in the middle, and Magit/Transient is an example of what it could be.
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What do you use for git integration in neovim?
You can also manage via a holistic UI: - Bisection - Log and reflog, stashes - subtrees, submodules - certain third party subcommands like git-absorb, and extend it with your own - interact with issues and pull requests via forge - pretty much all of the hundreds of CLI flags via a modal UI that got generalized and extracted to a lib called transient - well-integrated diff and conflict resolution (which is mostly just smerge) - the rebase/cherry-pick workflows I liked the best, including support for --update-refs - at any time you can always press a key to see the raw commands and output that it's using, which taught me a ton of corner cases - IMO it has a great manual
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Transient Demo Requests?
See https://github.com/magit/transient/issues/239 .
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Transient v0.4.0 released
More information can be found on my blog and in the release notes.
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Dynamic Transient Infixes Based on Current Values of Other Infixes
AFAIK :if etc. do not "live update", but only function on initial prefix setup (see this issue). You could use a sub-prefix that evaluates settings from its parent to set the available options. Another tip: add an incompatible list so you can't get two desserts:
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I cannot get EmacSQL to work
Yeah, ok, simplest is then to just trash the transient folder and either let Emacs clone it again on startup, or manually clone it: https://github.com/magit/transient
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Khoj Chat: A Search Assistant for your Org-Mode Notes
M-x khoj RET c via transient
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Transient for resizing windows
This is about resizing the frame, but might also be relevant: https://github.com/magit/transient/issues/216.
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quick-actions.el: Uniform Compile/Run/Debug across programming languages
Will a hydra or a transient menu?
Visual Studio Code
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Essential Tools & Technologies for New Developers
For beginners, the best code editor is Vscode.
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How to Handle File Uploads with ASP.NET Core
An IDE or text editor; we'll use Visual Studio 2022 for this tutorial, but a lightweight IDE such as Visual Studio Code will work just as well
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How to Scrape Google Finance
Choosing IDE: Selecting the right Integrated Development Environment (IDE) can make your coding experience smoother. Consider popular options like as PyCharm, Visual Studio Code, or Jupyter Notebook. Install your preferred IDE and configure it to work with Python.
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Tools that keep me productive
It all starts with the editor. Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is my go-to editor. I was using the Insider’s Edition for the longest time, but some extensions would try to log in and redirect to VS Code regular edition, so I decided to go back to it. That said, VS Code Insider's is very stable.
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Developing a Generic Streamlit UI to Test Amazon Bedrock Agents
Meanwhile, a developer workflow that does not require access to AWS Management Console may provide a better experience. As a developer, I appreciate having an integrated development environment (IDE) such as Visual Studio Code where I can code, deploy, and test in one place.
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How to make ESLint and Prettier work together? 🛠️
Good to know: If you're a Visual Studio Code user, you can enhance your coding experience by installing the ESLint and Prettier extensions. These extensions provide real-time error and warning highlighting, as well as automatic formatting and code fixing on save.
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Create a simple Server using Express.js.
Download any code editor e.g. VS code. Visual Studio code which is a code editor with support for development operations like debugging, task running, and version control. Go to https://code.visualstudio.com
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How to Add Firebase Authentication To Your NodeJS App
A code editor (VS Code is my go-to IDE), but feel free to use any code editor you're comfortable with.
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Create a Chat App With Node.js
First, grab your favorite command-line tool, Terminal or Warp, and a code editor, preferably VS Code and let’s begin.
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Asynchronous Programming in C#
C# is very good as a language, have developed in it for 5+ years. The problem is the gap between what MSFT promises to management and actually delivers to developers. You really really need to fully read the fine print, think of the omissions in documentation and implement a proof-of-concept that almost implements the full solution to find out the hidden gotchas.
For example, even probably their best product VS Code only got reasonable multiple screens support last year: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/10121#issuecommen...
And then, on the other end of the spectrum, you have Teams.
What are some alternatives?
emacs-lite
thonny - Python IDE for beginners
ani-cli - A cli tool to browse and play anime
reactide - Reactide is the first dedicated IDE for React web application development.
emacs-light - My lightweight bare necessities emacs config
Spyder - Official repository for Spyder - The Scientific Python Development Environment
crunchyroll-go - 📚 A Crunchyroll (beta) API implementation in Go
doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]
anime-helper-shell - A python shell for searching, watching, and downloading anime.
KDevelop - Cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript and PHP
evil - The extensible vi layer for Emacs.
vscodium - binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing