(For Autohotkey, Sublime is the best, because it's the only editor that has a linter, made by yours truly. But AHK Studio is said to be very good as well.)
@Cerberus When its my choice, Eclipse. When forced to work on Windows and Eclipse not installed.. Notepad++. If on a cmdline, then I wish for the days of Emacs but often that's not installed, and I end up with pico. I hate vi.
I used Visual C++/Studio years ago, never used Sublime, so I don't know. Visual C++/Studio is really integrated with the MS libraries so really nice...I don't care for the whole .NET/MS ecosystem, but I recognize that VS is good for that. I can badmouth Excel all day, but it is insanely great at doing a lot of things that it was designed to do.
@Cerberus Stick with Sublime. You wouldn't like VS.
Atom is in the same category as Sublime. You might like it as well.
Trust me, you need something lighter-weight than Eclipse or VS.
I used VS.Net from about 2004 to 2009 and it used to drive me nuts. Not that I couldn't code in it—I certainly could—but it seemed to make me want to hate the process of coding.
It's really designed for teams building business applications, which isn't really your métier.
I've been using it for ten years or more, and I've done such useful things as search an entire directory full of CSS files, find all instances of values that are CSS colors in any format, including named colors, rgb(), rgba(), and hex values, then list them in a table showing the text representation of the colors as well as a cell showing the color itself.
Also on the same line would be the file it showed up in.
This was to find the entire enterprise's color usage so we could get rid of a lot of one-off junk colors people had put in over the years so we could standardize on an accepted set.
And you can do simpler things, of course, like converting file paths to url format and vice versa, etc.
In fact, it restored to me one of the things I missed most about Emacs: macros!
You can write them in Python or JavaScript. About time you learned one of those, young doggy.
@RegDwigнt I watched the first 10 seconds then paused to look up and listen to those two wonderful musicians who opened the video (Kayhan Kalhor and Toumani Diabaté). Which then led me to this absolute gem:
@terdon inorite. That Bruce composer guy always introduces me to all kinds of new music I never even thought existed. This video in particular is like a week's worth of homework assignments to look up all the people in it.
In unrelated questions: does anyone here still use Reddit?
Someone just awarded me Reddit Gold for one of my waltzes and I've no idea how to best use it.
It also includes 100 gold coins or something. I have zero idea what these are good for.
When I stopped using Reddit they had introduced Reddit Gold already, so I'm vaguely familiar with the concept. But they had no coins or nothing. What the heck are these.
@RegDwigнt Thanks. That's so good an intro to the topic that I'll be sharing it with others elsewhere.
What Kalhor was quoted (as having to give his ear time to adjust to the 12-note system and the Iranian system), it's funny how present it is in my own life.
I'm taking classical guitar and setar classes at the same time (alternate weeks, beginner at both). I tune my setar with a tuning app on my phone, rather than by ear, so my "quarter notes" are exact quarter notes
But my setar teacher's quarter notes are not, and his tuning varies from scale to scale (it's not called scale, but I want to cut it short).
He calls the exact way of tuning rigid and mechanical. I don't know if I can get there while learning the guitar at the same time. And if Kalhor can't keep both ears at once, then it's hopeless for me. I have succumbed to the exact system.
@Færd yeah. When they brought that up I realized how little thought I had given it previously. That it would take you a while to adjust just like with language. And when they said how long the while is I was shocked.
But when they did draw the comparison with language, I immediately understood why exactly it takes that long and what exactly it has to entail. With language I have to deal with that issue every time I go to Russia and back.
With music I never really have to deal with it, except maybe on a miniature scale with the violin.
My teacher tunes by ear. I use an app. It's a great thing to have, but it's also an awful thing to have.
Just a couple days ago something broke and my app was unusable and I realized just how screwed I was.
My teacher can hear a difference of 2Hz. I can't. Because I'm being lazy and using an app.
And I can't use the piano or the fork because the fork is 440 and the piano is 439 but the violin is at 443. And again, that's a difference I need to make an effort to hear so it's of no use to me. I need to learn to tune the violin the proper way, using overtones and middle notes.
On the guitar I can actually hear how all the thirds are out of tune. And I can clearly hear the difference between tuning using fingered and open strings vs tuning using overtones. But I've been doing both for like 20 years now, and I'm not sure at what point exactly I started noticing. Could have been after a full ten years for all I remember.
It's tricky. A fun subject. A lot of work. Even if all you have to deal with is a single guitar or violin and don't even know that Iran or Java are a thing.
@Cerberus Well, not exactly. You can't write macros that do things you can't do my manipulating the interface. They had this capability in 2013 and it wasn't enough.
You really should try to move out of your comfort zone into languages that are more abstract than AHK. Do you a world of good.
@Cerberus people are liking that one a lot. I'm having all kinds of adjectives thrown at me, and like requests from the US by people who want to play it as a violin-guitar duet. Other people say they're being sick or sad or both and this music is helping them through the hard times.
I believe all of that could get to my head quite a bit if I weren't very drunk right now.
Speaking of head. That reminds me. Why do people keep insisting that whenever anyone starts singing in English they acquire the American accent?
So not true.
Kylie is singing "I just can't get you out of my hed". So most clearly so.
WTF is a hed, Kylie.
Answer me.
And Elton John still sings "garridge" and not "garahj".
British and American accents are distinguishable, and when someone talks I can tell if he is British or American within a few seconds. However, when listening to music, the accents are not easily distinguishable. I can hardly find if a singer is American or British from a song.
Is there a techni...
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