Martin Klepsch martinklepsch

10 Ways to improve Github Issues

I love the new GitHub issues, here are some ideas to make it perfect, ordered by priority:

1. I should be able to pick the assignee and milestone via keyboard when creating a new ticket

2. Keyboard shortcuts should work everywhere. For example when viewing an existing issue, 'c' will not create a new one.

3. After creating an issue, the assigned user / milestone should be pre-filled when creating the next issue.

4. When commenting, I should also be able to assign a different user. Right now this deletes my half-typed comment.

5. When typing the @ symbol to mention somebody, it should auto-complete the name.

6. This might just be me, but things feel a little sluggish right now, any improvements would be very welcome.

Let's say you want to use the new cljs.js bootstrapped compiler to eval code in your project. Using cljs.js/eval looks like this:

(ns foo.try-eval
  (:require [cljs.js :as cljs]))

(let [c-state (cljs/empty-state)]
  (cljs/eval c-state                       ;compiler state
             `(+ 1 1)`                     ;form to eval
 {:eval cljs/js-eval ;options

	(defn deterpolate [s]
	(loop [tokens (interpolate s)
	out-str (StringBuffer.)
	out-args []]
	(if (seq tokens)
	(let [token (first tokens)]
	(cond (string? token)
	(recur (rest tokens)
	(doto out-str (.append token))
	out-args)