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Dev tools · October 28, 2017

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Surpassing VSCode, Atom and Sublimes Command Palettes

I believe that command palettes are one of the greatest inventions for improving productivity of a complex application. I wanted to see if the concept could be taken much further. Specifically to the point that I could be more efficient than using hotkeys. I feel that I have achieved that goal for myself. However, I am very curious to get broader input on the concepts on which I have been working. I have a concrete implementation I have built for Eclipse here with some animated gifs: https://github.com/dakaraphi/eclipse-plugin-commander/blob/m... The conceptual…

Surpassing VSCode, Atom and Sublimes Command Palettes launched on October 28, 2017 with 5 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches.

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I believe that command palettes are one of the greatest inventions for improving productivity of a complex application. I wanted to see if the concept could be taken much further. Specifically to the point that I could be more efficient than using hotkeys. I feel that I have achieved that goal for myself. However, I…

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