New blog post! Read about Posit's new Positron editor, see some of the neat new features it has, and check out the settings and extensions I use. It includes a bonus workaround for connecting to a remote server with SSH! https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/07/08/fun-with-positron/ #rstats
Fun with Positron | Andrew Heiss

Combine the best of RStudio and Visual Studio Code in Posit’s new Positron IDE

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@andrew Super writeup! I’ve been really pleased with how well Positron is doing most of what I need, and looking forward to it continuing to cook.

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I moved away from rstudio's cmd+d. I use CMD+L and backspace to delete a line.

@eyayaw I use ctrl+a (move the cursor to the beginning of the line) and ctrl+k (delete to the end of the line) because macOS has a bunch of emacs keybindings secretly enabled in most text fields in most apps (like ctrl+e too, for moving the cursor to the end of the line)
@andrew Regarding your wishlist: You can get a (better) replacement for Github Copilot by installing the Codeium extension.
@vladtarko WHOA this is neat!
@andrew Yeah, it works quite well. Also, if you select something in a script and right click, you can re-factor the code (it can actually fix bugs!) or explain the code. The "explain code" should be useful for students. When they don't understand some part of the code they can just ask Codeium to explain!
@andrew one can do all sorts of things through ssh using emacs, and it really is not too difficult: https://github.com/lf-araujo/MxNotebook
GitHub - lf-araujo/MxNotebook: Single-file Emacs configuration for a powerful scientific Notebook system that works flawlessly over ssh.

Single-file Emacs configuration for a powerful scientific Notebook system that works flawlessly over ssh. - lf-araujo/MxNotebook

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