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The People Behind Quanta Plus
anonymous writes "In this fascinating interview, Eric Laffoon and Andras Mantia give us a glimpse into the world of the Quanta Plus project. Read on for everything from tantalising references to Kommander, billed by Eric to be part of the foundations for the next generation desktop and user experience, to details of future plans for Quanta VPL (Visual Page Layout)."
There is only one Quanta.
I use vim for all my work, be it writing c/java code, shell scripts, html/xml , emails . basically everything that requires using keyboard for extended amount of time.
Over the years i have tried various IDEs and WYSWYG editors and gave up on them after some time to fall back to my trusted VIM.
Most of them are too bloated and takes ages just to start up. Plus you need a special directory structure and so on so forth.
Quanta plus is very fast, the pre-view actually works , and very intutive piece of s/w.
for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
This has already been discussed, look better and here. Thats the beauty of opensource. It gets better.
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Just moment ago I finished putting together a 50 page annual report - I decided at the very beginning of the project to give Quanta a shot; I knew I was in for a lot of copy and paste, I've been working with vi for ages and had a feeling that I may be able to save time by taking this on using Quanta.
End result? There's little doubt that it saved me time; probably 8 hours in total. Not bad. There were some annoyances as with all software of this type, and most of it can probably be chalked up to my inexperience with this software package; tags being auto-closed when I didn't want them to and vice-versa, strange text colouring, etc. Then there were some quirks like when some tags auto-closed they also moved the display up a couple of lines; so if I wanted to paste with my middle button right after having a tag auto-complete it would end up somewhere else. Stuff for me to R{more of}TFM and submit bug reports, but bottom-line is that I was quite pleased, it kept me organized and saved me some time. I'll certainly use this for future [applicable] projects and provide the community-feedback these guys deserve. Well done, check it if you haven't already!
check out http://vcf.sf.net
looks like an interesting component model, and is based on C++ AND is BSD licensed. Llinux port is in progress and Mac port is coming - looks like the guy ordered a G4 just for this.
Um, there are dozens of dialogues in WinXP that look exactly like that (notably the "MyComputer" property pages).
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