(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?

  • tatterdemalion@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    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