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What non-IDE tekst editor do you use? (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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(Graphical) IDE's are great for development, but they're slow to start and heavy to run. Sometimes you just want to take a quick look at an xml or dockerfile and you don't want to spin up the whole IDE for that.

I've recently rediscovered notepad++ for that (on windows), what's your prefered easy-acces-tekst-editor?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

Helix. Instant startup. Minimal configuration required. Has all of the killer features I want from an IDE anyway.

EDIT: I assumed people would just research this anyway, but a more complete list of features I enjoy from Helix:

very responsive
modal editing
declarative configuration file format (TOML, not Lua)
language server protocol
debug adapter protocol
written in Rust so I am more likely to be able to submit a PR if I need to

Some cons (all known issues on github):

no plugin API yet
inline LSP diagnostics are overly intrusive and can overlap your code
cold-starts the LSP when you start the editor, so you might need to wait for symbol queries in a large project

[–] jennraeross 6 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Helix deserves more love. Blazing fast, sensible defaults, good lsp support, vim-ish bindings. It’s really my perfect editor

[–] beefsack 2 points 9 months ago

It's such a cool editor, but after decades of Vim motor memory I just can't seem to wrap my head around the cursor / selection changes. I really wish there was an option to just make selection work like Vim.

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