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by cgcardona 4495 days ago
First let me say that I've used only vim and emacs for the last 5+ years that I have been a daily coder.

I'm extremely comfortable with vim. I can cruise seemingly at light speed and have just never been able to find a text editor which offered the same level of productivity when jumping back and forth between the mouse/trackpad and keyboard.

However I just couldn't resist the urge to try out a new text editor that was created by github and thankfully I scored an invite from someone on twitter.

I've only had the thing open for about 10 minutes and already I'm impressed.

It allows me to write in markdown, save the file, render the markdown into markup, and then launch the webkit dev tools to inspect the rendered DOM.[0]

Do other modern text editors such as Sublime Text allow you to render the markup and then inspect the DOM with browser dev tools? If not that alone seems like a pretty good innovation.

More Info: [0] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhdTeedCcAARgYV.jpg:large