Re: Text Editing on an Infinite Plane (A Project)

I write a LOT of prose. For example, right now, over the past month, I have dev-000 ... dev-026. Instead of remembering where everything is (did I have that thought in dev-013?) I would, ideally, remember the things spatially -- the form of the columns, the blanks, and maybe various other landmarks.

There are mnemonists who say that the quickest way to memorize a deck of cards is by imagining placing them in a house. Again, it's mostly for prose, lots and lots of prose, and not for content with a more natural (and typically hierarchical) organization.

It is not meant to simulate a 2D or 3D environent for the hell of it, but it is trying to follow up a theory in memory organization. Years ago I had this idea, when I looked through the hundreds of random text fragments I had, all with random names, in a huge folder. And I thought it would be nice if I had one huge text file for all my memories, with a book report on Bolivia next to an essay on Heart of Darkness or something.

I thought I would have to implement a text editor from scratch, and I thought about things like memory, and ease of navigation, and typing in columns, etc.. So I had this idea, and recently, I realized that it could be implemented quite simply with splits and scrollbind in vim. And so here it is, in beta. I am writing somewhat less now, and so I wish I had it years ago, but I am going to try to work in a system, see what kind of features I need, and so on.

On Wednesday, November 27, 2013 5:00:29 PM UTC-5, csebastian3 wrote:
> Why stop at 2D? With a webpage-based implementation it would be easy
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> to jump to full 3D text editing capabilities, with more efficient
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> panning, zooming, etc.
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> If you're only going to do 2D, I don't see much benefit of this script
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> compared to vim's standard Window commands, like:
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> split
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> vsplit
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> Ctrl-w h/j/k/l
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> Ctrl-w H/J/K/L
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> Ctrl-w |
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> I have gotten used to the above commands over the years, and I always
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> use vim in a "2D" fashion. My vim session typically looks like a grid
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> of vim windows, with the horizontal and vertical axes representing
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> some kind of logical arrangement for the project.
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> ~Christopher Sebastian
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> SiChuan, China

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