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Tiled Text Engine Demo

Weston Beecroft

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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Software designTools and practiceVim, Emacs and editorsDesign patterns

Weston Beecroft demonstrates the Tiled Text Engine, a framework for creating gestural and non-traditional text editors.

A demo of the Tiled Text Engine, a framework for creating text editors of a new style, demonstrated through the GIDE app (Gestural IDE). symbolflux.com/projects/tiledtext

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What people say. Recommended as an example of alternative text editor interfaces and non-traditional code visualization.

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u/Kuinoxin r/ProgrammingLanguages • Recommends

On “Are there programming languages designed to be written on a smartphone device? We write code in letters, but given the rise of the iPhone and tactile screens I would expect a new gen of languages designed to be coded on a touch screen?”

I remember this text editor for "exotic" input: link to this video
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u/westoncbin r/compsci • Recommends

On “Why Programming Languages Use Only One 'View,' and How to Fix That”

…—then our editors provide a user-configurable rendering of that tree. As far as visualizing other things: I think that's a very interesting subject, but here I'm mostly talking about just visualizing programming language abstractions: most often they would even look like textual source code, but they would be powerfully different. Here's a demo: link to this video…
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