I’ve been wanting something lighter than VSCodium, though I can’t find anything else that also does active line-by-line comparison of 2 nearly identical files. Do any other custom-syntax-highlighting editors come to mind?
I recently got into using NeoVim with LazyVim. It’s honestly been my favorite IDE experience by far after using VSCode for ages and then trying Zed for a year. It’s super light and has infinity features and plugins.
Zed has AI features, but there’s a config flag that disables all of them in one go. They also have collaboration features that you might want to disable as well… Also telemetry.
Notepad ++ does that. It’s syntax highlighting and does great comparison of two nearly identical files. I’ve never used it to code though. I just use it for comparing text. But it is syntax highlighting.
Hmm, it doesn’t seem to be natively available for Linux, and I’d like to not have to go through WINE every time for a heavily used program. Thanks, though! I did use this for a while on Windows before VSCodium (can’t remember what led me to switch in the first place)…
Thanks, I’m trying Kate and I installed git to get the diff going, but I can’t actually edit one doc live and see the change on the spot across the two docs. Is Kate capable of this?
I wanna be able to edit one side and see the other side react to the changes live. It seems that Kate, which seems to use git diff, is incapable of doing this. I’m trying Zed and may try Magit next if that doesn’t work out, thanks!
I’ve been wanting something lighter than VSCodium, though I can’t find anything else that also does active line-by-line comparison of 2 nearly identical files. Do any other custom-syntax-highlighting editors come to mind?
I recently got into using NeoVim with LazyVim. It’s honestly been my favorite IDE experience by far after using VSCode for ages and then trying Zed for a year. It’s super light and has infinity features and plugins.
Zed has been pretty good.
Trying this out next, thanks; it’s a bit different but may be the one! It should get into the Software Manager…
Zed has AI features, but there’s a config flag that disables all of them in one go. They also have collaboration features that you might want to disable as well… Also telemetry.
Lame, thanks!
Notepad ++ does that. It’s syntax highlighting and does great comparison of two nearly identical files. I’ve never used it to code though. I just use it for comparing text. But it is syntax highlighting.
Hmm, it doesn’t seem to be natively available for Linux, and I’d like to not have to go through WINE every time for a heavily used program. Thanks, though! I did use this for a while on Windows before VSCodium (can’t remember what led me to switch in the first place)…
Kate (the KDE GUI editor) is pretty light and surprisingly competent if you set it up right. It has diff capability including git diffing.
Thanks, I’m trying Kate and I installed
gitto get the diff going, but I can’t actually edit one doc live and see the change on the spot across the two docs. Is Kate capable of this?Thanks, I’ll give it a shot!
Magit? Git diff?
I wanna be able to edit one side and see the other side react to the changes live. It seems that Kate, which seems to use git diff, is incapable of doing this. I’m trying Zed and may try Magit next if that doesn’t work out, thanks!