Previewing at 1.0, Cornerstone, a GUI Subversion front end has been released.
Daring Fireball, as ever, with the wry commentary:
It strikes me as an odd coincidence that two serious Subversion clients would debut at a time when many developers are starting to switch away from Subversion to distributed revision control systems such as Git […]
Versions, the GUI Mac subversion client is still vaporware, but there is a review of the prerelease beta at Theocacao. Though I am shifting over to Git, I am still curious how Versions will stack up against svnX.
I have been meaning for some time now to blog about ManOpen, a GUI man page viewer originally developed on NEXT, and another example of a hybrid app. However, Brett Terpstra over at TUAW has beaten me to it, in a post comparing a number of GUI man page viewers (including plugins that allow the […]
When generating PDFs with PDFLaTeX or XeTeX, I use the hyperref package which adds some nice functionality to the compiled document. So, for example, citations are linked to the bibligography and if you use the backref option there’s a link back to the page with the orignal citation. Nice and user-friendly. The other day I […]
Subversion is a great command line utility waiting for decent GUI. While the GUI’s supplanting the command line represents the triumph of the Image over the Word, the GUI has its place—even in text editing. With respect to subversion, there’s cognitive utility in being able to visualize the structure of your repository or working copy. […]
In my first post, I reported my discovery that a lot of tools that programmers use are, in fact, readily adaptable to the task of writing. In a previous post I discussed diff programs—programs for comparing differences between text files. In this post, I will be discussing version control.
Programmers and writers face at least one […]
In my very first post, I mentioned that a lot of tools for programmers are readily adapted to the task of writing. When writing long, complex documents, it is sometimes necessary to compare versions. If you have embraced the power of plain text, a diff program can help. Diff programs display differences between files. This […]
As I mentioned in my initial post, learning about the UNIX underpinnings of OS X was a revelation. While I would never like to work exclusively in a text based terminal, a lot of UNIX utilities can be exploited by writers as well as coders. While visual editing familiar from word processors tends to obscure […]
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