{"id":257,"date":"2008-10-12T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=257"},"modified":"2008-10-12T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T16:33:00","slug":"257","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m expounding my usual &#8220;late-bound&#8221; tabs model of IDEs again, <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/195485\/why-do-old-editors-like-vim-and-emacs-expose-the-difference-between-a-file-and#195668\">over on StackOverflow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; late binding between the buffer in the editor and actual concrete thing you&#8217;re working on, gives the editing environment more flexibility and power.<\/p>\n<p>Think this is out of date? One place where the idea is back with a vengeance is in the browser, where you don&#8217;t have 1-1 correspondence between tabs and web-pages. Instead, inside each tab you can navigate forwards and backwards between multiple pages. No-one would try to make an MDI type interface to the web, where each page had it&#8217;s own inner window. It would be impossibly fiddly to use. It just wouldn&#8217;t scale.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I think IDEs are getting way too complicated these days, and the static binding between documents and buffers is one reason for this. I expect at some point there&#8217;ll be a breakthrough as they move to the browser-like tabbed-buffer model where :<\/p>\n<p>a) you&#8217;ll be able to hyperlink between multiple files within the same buffer\/tab (and there&#8217;ll be a back-button etc.)<\/p>\n<p>b) the generic buffers will be able to hold any type of data : source-code, command-line, dynamically generated graphic output, project outline etc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m expounding my usual &#8220;late-bound&#8221; tabs model of IDEs again, over on StackOverflow. &#8230; late binding between the buffer in the editor and actual concrete thing you&#8217;re working on, gives the editing environment more flexibility and power. Think this is out of date? One place where the idea is back with a vengeance is in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,109,128,211,242,452,483],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-browser","tag-developing-in-wiki","tag-emacs","tag-ide","tag-late-binding","tag-tfi","tag-user-interfaces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}