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Impressive refresh rate!

I'd love to try using an IDE such as Eclipse on such a screen. I suppose IDEs can have an e-ink mode where instead of colors, they use multiple fonts, italics, bold fonts, and other decorators to highlight syntax.




> Impressive refresh rate!

Yeah, and apparently no need to go to the black state required on current e-ink screens?


JamesMcMinn, your posts are being marked as dead. Not clear why, try getting in touch with the mods if you read this.


HN hell banning real name accounts now?

Unbelievable. This site forces people to communicate like they're being watched by their professor, and it still passive aggressively bans people who merely dissent once and a while.

Just wait until an alternative site emerges. One that doesn't have a concept of crimethink for the sake of "preserving the community".


Apart from the point in the first video when they click on a link and you can still see the smudge of the text column on the newly cleared screen. A close look at the text column while scrolling makes it look dirty compared to the rest of the screen as well.


E-ink theme would do, most IDE's give you extensive code formatting / theming options; replace the standard colours with bolds and underlines and such and you're good to go.


They do have colored e-ink displays on the horizon too, but yeah that would be nice until those become mainstream.


> Impressive refresh rate!

YES, but sadly you can see afterimages, or image burn on the screen, I hope they have some self erase/calibration procedure buildin.


Use Emacs, Acme, vi

All great monochrome editors.

Plenty of exceptional programmers use mono. One wonders if it is a cause or an effect.


Huh? There's nothing inherently monochrome about emacs or vi/vim. Both support colour syntax highlighting, and I'd be surprised if the vast majority of programmers using those editors weren't using it. Certainly everyone in my workplace who uses vim (including me) does. (Don't know about Acme).


> There's nothing inherently monochrome about ... vi/vim

But it is nonetheless "a great monochrome editor"




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