Tiled Text
Dev tools
structural code editor
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How HN took it
15 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 4 critical, out of 38 comments about the project. Thread score +0.27.
Idea: 10 for, 3 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Interesting, innovative approach to text editing
From 4 comments
Congrats. A very interesting an innovative approach.
yarone on HNThis is very innovative. Constraint does force invention. Often time I wish I can write some code on my phone but gave up after a while due to the painful editing process. It…
ww520 on HNi like the debug mode. being able to manipulate the tree directly seems like it could be more efficient than a cursor.
catshirt on HNusing the syntax tree for navigation was a brilliant insight. really nicely done.
fishcakes on HN
Useful for structured text like medical notes
From 1 comment
Could doctors use a gestural interface like this to write templated notes in an EMR on touch devices? Most of the notes that doctors write have repetitive structures. Hence, EMRs…
pak on HN
Objections
Typing on touch devices is still the hard problem
From 1 comment
This is a cool toy but it doesn't really seem to address the main issue of writing code on a touch device; typing on a touch device sucks. Moving code around is not a difficult…
ebbv on HN
Audience may be too small
From 1 comment
I've just download Vim Touch (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.momodalo.app.vimtouch) and have been playing around with it for a bit. And I can attest to the…
yefim323 on HN
Landing page image is off-putting
From 1 comment
The image at the top of the page almost made me close the tab instantly. It's the polar opposite of slick and intuitive. I did stick around though and the video does look very…
resu_nimda on HN
Requests
Speech recognition for text entry
From 1 comment
Congrats on building this! I wonder, have you considered speech recognition as an alternative source for text generation? You could build some powerful voice commands this way,…
eaurouge on HN
Leap Motion or gesture integration
From 1 comment
It would be really cool to see an integration of this with the Leap Motion controller (http://leapmotion.com/). I can't imagine writing code exclusively with Tiled Text gestures,…
hangtwenty on HN
Questions
Unclear what the project does from the video
From 1 comment
I watched the video and still have no idea what this is about - someone explain it in english?
aaronsnoswell on HN
Alternatives named
Sublime Text expand selection
From 2 comments
Sublime's "Selection > Expand Selection to Brackets" (which can be repeated) is effectively nesting level selection for bracey languages. I do get what you're saying about the…
frou_dh on HNIndeed, although that one is useless if you want to do something like wrap the current statement in an "if" or "while" or similar. "Expand Selection to Brackets" will actually…
lobster_johnson on HN
Versor for Emacs
From 1 comment
This is a very cool project, nice work. It seems to be very similar to an older project for Emacs named Versor[1]. There's an interesting document out there talking about how to…
zrail on HN
IntelliJ IDEA selection tools
From 1 comment
IntelliJ IDEA has both "expand selection outward" and "wrap selection in if/trycatch/while/etc" functions. They both work pretty much how you describe them here. They're…
cytzol on HN