All of these issues are from today.
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Helix is nice, speaking of which.
Helix for terminal has been fantastic; I like GUIs so for me Zed is my "S-Tier".
Yes, Zed allows you to turn off the Agentic LLM integration off in
settings.json:Doesn't seem like much of a VSCode replacement though since it is terminal based
I replaced VS Code for me on every way I used it, both at work at at home. Been using it professionally for about two years now. It has LSP support, code actions, local and global symbol jumping, jumping to definition, etc, etc, etc. All I need to be productive without the use of AI. 👍👍 (Maybe there's even a way to use AI with it as well, but idgaf about that.)
For the record, TUI applications can definitely do a good job of replacing GUI applications. It is not inherent to the terminal that it can't.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought it was inherent to the terminal that you can't position the cursor and select text using the mouse, and also inherent that there are not right-click menus.
If you don't want to use a mouse in your code editor that's a valid preference, but these are very different styles of programs and exist in separate categories. Personally I was using Atom before I was using VSCodium, and I really like most design choices of the latter, it's basically everything I always wanted an IDE to be like. Don't want to stop using the mouse.
Helix, just as Kakoune before it, supports multiple cursor selections, even off-screen. 👍 Mouse selections are also not a problem. NeoVim also has support for mouse selection.
Feel free to try it out! Setting up LSPs requires some setup work, but if you just want to try out the editing paradigm, you can just try to edit a plain text file to get a feel for it.
Programms can print special codes to position the cursor wherever and they can also enable mouse events. Helix does support selecting with mouse
Shout out helix!! Big fan!
🧬❤️ Yeah!
I'll have to check it out, I heard Zed is great too
Zed even has Helix bindings! But I recommend Gram, in that case, which is a fork of Zed with all the AI bullshit ripped out. 👍👊
Yeah but I am using the AI bullshit so that wouldn't be a plus
Oh. Ouch. Then I wish you good luck in finding a better alternative than VS Code! 🖖
Thanks fam