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In search of a non-electron text editor that can fold | Are emacs and (neo)vim my only options? (discuss.online)
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[–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

There’s also Zed.

Noted. Thank you!

And helix.

I believe this doesn't have folding (yet). Unfortunately.

Also neovim is really dope! Just have to throw that there

xD , Neovim is definitely pretty cool.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I use Zed as my primary editor these days. It’s just about ready for prime time!

    (Source: 12 years of web and Linux hacking)

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    By admission of my fellow Lemmy-users, I've gone and tried out many text editors over the course of the past few days. Unfortunately, I didn't like the installation options for Zed in my current distro of choice (i.e. Fedora):

    • its flatpak is unverified
    • not found in Fedora's own repos

    It is found within Terra's repos. However, users report that -at least for Zed- some of the installed packages from Fedora's own repo are replaced by Terra's. This interaction can be prevented by giving preference for Fedora's own packages, but it seems like a can of worms I'm not very interested to engage with at the moment. Hopefully this situation will be resolved rather sooner than later.

    Anyhow, have you got the chance to work with Emacs and/or Kate over the years? If so, could you chime in and give your thoughts on how Zed fares in comparison? Please note that I'm (mostly) asking within the confines of a relatively simple text editor used to take notes with.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Honestly I never really got into using any of the terminal based editors- I like a pretty GUI, personally.

    That being said I have been a KDE user for the last couple of years and actually have quite a favourable view on Kate. It’s a very competent editor with a great deal of extensibility.

    The big difference between the two is their focus. Zed is written to be targeted at developers and as such has some capabilities that Kate doesn’t (afaik) like an AI assistant panel, handling multi megabyte text files with grace, and being able to directly connect to remote file systems over SSH.

    If you’re not looking for those features I think you’d be very happy with Kate!

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    Thank you so much for this information! It confirms that Kate is very competent, yet clears where it may fall short compared to Zed.

    Aight, I'll keep Kate around for the time being. And I'll definitely take Zed into consideration whenever I'm in search of an IDE.

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