A Modern Text Editing Workflow @ 13th March 2014

First sharing session with some of the folks in ITT

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1. A Modern Text Editing Workflow 13th March 2014
2. Which text editor do you use day to day? Notepad Notepad++ EditPlus Gedit/Vi Any others
3. What percentage of your time do you find yourself doing text editing?
4. What kind of files do you open in a text editor? Data files Config files Webpages Documents Any others?
5. Why I think everything that can be in text should be in text? Can apply Version Control Focus on content, not glitter
6. Major Use Cases for Text Files Infrastructure as Code Presentations Documents and Note-taking Many others
7. What I think a great editor should be? Make you productive Make text editing fun Cross-platform. Learn once, use everywhere. Infinitely extensible/customizable Great syntax highlighting Have great regular expression support
8. Why I use Sublime Text? http://www.sublimetext.com/ http://www.sublimetext.com/3 Features Cross-Platform Command Palette Multiple Selection Plugins (through Python) Powerful Project Support Customize Anything High Performance Navigate everywhere
9. Package Control https://sublime.wbond.net/
10. Demo Time
11. Future of Text Editors
12. Light-table by Chris Granger https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table http://www.lighttable.com/ Features Reactive Open source Runs on code mirror + node-webkit + clojurescript Cross-platform
13. Atom by Github https://atom.io/ Features Sublime Text-like Free in Beta, Unknown once released Runs on Chromium + node.js Cross-platform (not yet)
14. Online Editors https://www.nitrous.io/ https://codio.com/ http://codemirror.net/ http://ace.c9.io/ Common Features Powered mainly by either Codemirror/Ace Frameworks Integrated with web development Focus on collaborative editing
15. Q & A Session
16. The End! Enjoy! :) - @steveteo