# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 11
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/xuaevqq
I'm a long-time Sublime Text user, and one of the stickiest features of that app is the "goto anywhere" menu. Apps that don't have something like that feel old and clunky to me nowadays, the way X11 apps from the 1990s feel.
Just checked and I bought my first license from them in June 2013, so over 9 years. I used it awhile before buying, so perhaps close to 10 years.
I don't know if I'll ever switch away. Old school editors and their modern progeny feel like big steps backwards to me. Modal anything is poison to my way of thinking so no way I'm going there. Memorizing byzantine keyboard shortcuts is not something I'm going to start doing--that's exactly the sort of thing that a computer should be doing for you. Memorizing stuff like Meta-Ctrl-X-C or whatever is like writing assembly language instead of writing a high-level language and using a compiler.
Anyhow, remembering one keyboard shortcut for the goto anywhere feature and then using autocompletion or filtering based on a few extra keystrokes makes getting to the command you want almost as fast as keyboard shortcuts, with orders of magnitude less cognitive load, memory storage requirements, or learning curve. That feels like a significant advance in user interfaces to me and it's hard to give it up when using software that doesn't have it.
Not that anyone else should give a crap about my preferences in editors--I'm just babbling--but I know exactly one vi command (:q!) and one emacs command (Ctrl-X-Ctrl-C) and I'd like to keep it that way forever.
I switched from Sublime to VS Code in 2018 (?), due to some errors on Sublime 3.
It's a bittersweet feeling. Sublime 'invented' that UX and Atom/VS Code took that innovation, offering a free alternative. The Show all commands bar (Ctrl-Shift-P) is just amazing, easy to use and useful.
Moral feelings away, I have good productivity with VS Code, I don't have to install many plugins, and it's quick to start from 0. In a pragmatic way VS Code just works.
I'm also learning vim and nvim and it has been a complex learning curve, but I think it's going to help me as vim is installed almost everywhere. Perhaps helix is going to become an opinionated alternative for VS Code users soon, no idea.
As they say, a quick way to get a good product is "Standing on the shoulders of giants", and sometimes using those ideas/stealing is part of that standing.
@eaplmx I use Codium (the de-microsofted VS Code) sometimes, and it's very useful. I like that it has a goto-anywhere-like feature. I like to credit Sublime for pioneering that idea. I think that's important. On the other hand I'm happy other apps run with the idea too.
@abucci I'm a strong Vim user and never touched Sublime. The JetBrains universe uses Shift+Shift by default to launch this "goto anywhere" search box (or what I think you mean by that). I use that feature every now and then at work, maybe once a fortnight.
@abucci I'm a strong Vim user too. Have never used any other editor really, So someyhing like ~20 years or so. I even use NeoVim inside VSCodium.~
@abucci I'm a strong Vim user too. Have never used any other editor really, So someyhing like ~20 years or so. I even use NeoVim inside VSCodium.~
It's been Vim for me for a long time. Previously, it was Notepad++, but now I wouldn't give up modal editing for anything.