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VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage (news.ycombinator.com)
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[–] 10 points 6 months ago (12 children)

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?

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Kate (the KDE GUI editor) is pretty light and surprisingly competent if you set it up right. It has diff capability including git diffing.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    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?

    Update: It appears incapable of live-editing docs. VSCodium wins again, unfortunately. I really wanna get away from VSC because it seems much heavier on the system than anything else I've found...

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Zed has been pretty good.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Trying this out next, thanks; it's a bit different but may be the one! It should get into the Software Manager...

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Lame, thanks! Edit: All telemetry and AI features were disabled by default in my installation. Was that not the case for you?

    However, Zed still does not have side-by-side file comparison that involves live editing of one to instantly reflect changes on the other; I have to open the diff, and then find the contradictory spots separately in a third window. Why is it so hard to find an editor with live comparison-editing?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    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)...

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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