Since this is an “outlier” post (for a minority) and there seems to be no interest in the topic of Subl pairing with (initially) Ubuntu apps I am removing the post and placing it in my own datavault. I wlll get on with research.
Buddy Apps
I have had to create a fresh forum profile (so I am a twin of my first ID … innovator). At least this clears my Subl driving licence. Now pursuing my theme “buddy apps”. On the right of Subl Text tabs there is “All Files” with a long scrolling list. How can a buddy app access this raw list?
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I’ve solved my navigation through chaos problems. Tried the GoTo Anything but did not meet my needs. Now using two “Buddy Apps” Krusader and Recoll (Ubuntu) most of my foreseeable needs are met. I can search by various types … including phrases inside files. So I can search thus ext:sublime.build to show all Build files in a list, or ext:sublime.snippet and so on … mixing mime.type, name, content, date in search profiles. Other buddies lined up.
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gbird
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Hi Innovator x 2. Are chatting with your own doppleganger here?
For myself, I guess I need to understand the question, problem and potential solution better, in order to engage. I am a pragmatist and so need to have a more concrete sense of what you are trying to do, to see if there are any overlaps.
Perhaps if you describe what specific issue you are trying to solve or what creative solution you are providing. Screen captures would help. A screen video would be even better. Keep it simple so others can follow along.
Without this concrete framing, I am not quite sure what you are either asking or telling.
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@gbird, Thanks for your interest.
doppelgänger ? No, simply that I lost password and decided to just launch … a new profile. Nothing supernatural.
A doppelgänger (meaning “double walker” in German) is a non-related living person who looks exactly like another, or a supernatural ghostly double of a living person. Historically rooted in mythology and literature, these doubles were often seen as omens of bad luck or impending doom.
Hmm.
Now to the point of my odd writings.
I guess I can summarise by replying “order out of chaos”.
I am just an engineer of some 70 years standing and my eyes glaze over when I see the complexity of some tools. Just look at Blender.
So I decided to take the easy route and rather than come to grips with the mysteries of Sublime Text to invite other collaborating tools into the party.
I run on Ubuntu. I can use Windows in dual boot … when forced to.
There are superb opensource tools on Ubuntu but Sublime Text offers a one stop for these elderly (86) eyes. So rather than adjusting to different UI editors, themes, settings I hit on the idea of usinng Sublime Text as my principal scribing tool. One setting in Subl. Some companion tools I use I can barely read. In other words writing the elements with the host Sublime Text.
It is all text at the end of the day.
And so I progressed to inviting other tools into the party. If they are XML based.
Search thus: “Which Ubuntu desktop tools such as for example Adobe adopt XML syntax?”
Starting with CherryTree which is a hierarchical notes editor I mused that I could edit the interior elements of CherryTree - within Sublime Text - provided that I use *.ctd extension (which is XML). And so I installed Exalt for XML syntax.
Sure enough I can edit *.ctd files within Subl Text, subject to learning to avoid the syntax coloured tags. But one soon learns.
Moreover I can sync Subl Text with CherryTree by going to CherryTree Preference > Miscellaneous > Reload after external update.
So we now have CherryTree as an appendage to Sublime Text. An interesting feature of CherryTree is that there can be rich text and codeboxes … and links to external resources … so code snippets with a CherryTree container can be extracted by Subl editor.
I have extended this thinking to invent the “AI Shuttle Protocol ®” where CherryTree is shuttled to an fro.
Human <-> AI <-> Subl Text.
But I digress.
The next “Buddy App” problem is that I am in browser sessions, or Email, or some other planet removed from Subl Text. I want to stay in focus and copy or jot down notes directly into Subl Text without jumping out of my primary session.
And so step forward Albert. Now I have a very visual mind and I remembeer writing somewhere here that it reminds me of the old sci-fi film (1951) where Robot Gort has a visor. Sure enough I am in my other session and I simply type [Ctrl+Shift+Space] and I can type command … snip … to create a snippet to fire into Subl. Parallel worlds. I received several forum flag because I likened this to “klattu barada nikto” - but no sense of humour in unknown flaggers. I was “OT”. No sking off piste allowed here. Unless it is your topic.
I trust that you get the drift. The old Atom “hackable” editor (sunset by GitHub in favour of VS Code) showed a proton with electrons orbitting. I view Subl Text as the proton and the electrons orbiting include CherryTree, Albert, Actiona, any XML compatible “Buddy App”. And custom apps. A one stop editor for my old eyes.
Leverage the galaxy of Ubuntu Apps.
Finally I have conceived another “black adder” plan.
I can launch “UI drones” from Sublime Text. Is this guy mad? What does that mean?
I mean (provided Ubuntu is in Xorg mode) launching (using varius devices in Subl and Buddy Apps) UI drones which drive Subl Text UI. Or other UI’s such as filling in your tax returns.
That is using the UI drone to hit various keys and other vectors to automate the driving of Subl Text (and others). This rather puts YouTube teachings out of business. I can never read the screenprints anyway and the videos are taken up by the tutor.
And so progressing forward instead of posting scripts in here we can just post a link to launch a UI drone from an approved repo.
When I have time I will create a few demos. The days of copying and pasting code are numbered. I have this model working in AI discourses. Switching to visual mode the chats we see I liken to the - Turner Prize “a pile of old ropes”. Search that theme, I don’t have the link since it would require me to come out of this editing.
I remember visiting a NATO futures workshop way, way back (1960’s) and I was asked: “What do you foresee” and I replied to my colleagues “I foresee a chip planted in the human brain”. They chortled. 50 years later Musk steps forward.
I see that all the need for memorising key sequences will go. UI drones will take over driving desktop tools. And I am already experimenting with my basic tools. Buddy Apps.
I do not offer screen videos at this stage but when I have time I will write in quarto and use Subl text to build a Jupyter Notebook or slides deck. But not today. Or if CherryTree is installed a CherryTree “shuttle”.
Regarding my side question about grabbing the dropdown list of files. A better way is to leverage tools Recoll and RipGrepAll. I can in Recoll see every file and search for internal content to narrow the research. Recoll I regard as an essential Buddy App with Sublime Text. But the mime types (extensions such as sublime.snippet) must be added. Now I can sort by extension such as show all sublime.snippet extensions … including internal context.
I could write this in Sublime Text and paste here. Might try that next. Or a UI drone to grab text from these forums and use Recoll. Are you aware that these forum browser sessions can be indexed in Firefox if the Recoll-we extension is installed. Create a Firefox Profile Sublime and install Recoll-we. Play.
Coffee time.
Returning to add this example of why I need a consistent editor view.
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For those interested enough to install CherryTree (just one Buddy App) here is an example. Except I find that I cannot upload *.ctd so I will try a datavault later. Busy right now.
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