Choose Codium…
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?
Zed has been pretty good.
Trying this out next, thanks; it’s a bit different but may be the one! It should get into the Software Manager…
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.
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?
Kate (the KDE GUI editor) is pretty light and surprisingly competent if you set it up right. It has diff capability including git diffing.
Thanks, I’ll give it a shot!
Thanks, I’m trying Kate and I installed
gitto 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…
There is an issue open on Zed. You can do it from the CLI but the UI still needs an update.
Here is where my convo started: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/39869#discussioncomment-16534444
You can also use Difftastic as a plugin: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/9721
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.
Thanks, I’ll try LazyVim. Kate and Zed still do not have live side-by-side comparing-and-editing, it seems. I did not realize how hard it is to find an editor other than VSCodium that has this feature.
Magit? Git diff?
ffs microsoft. At this point i might as well just go back to: notepad++ and a terminal on Windows, or gedit and a terminal on linux. Emacs is great but i spent more time writing elisp rather than working…
I always commit from the terminal. Never bothered with editor plugins for git.
I don’t like git clients built into my IDE, my preference at the moment is Fork (though curse them for choosing that name, searching for problems with Fork is impossible)
Fork’s great. If there’s problems, I usually just check their issue tracker on github or email the devs directly, they’re friendly and very responsive.
I guess it’s an effective defense to throw salt in the eyes of the people who are upset that you’re salting the earth…
This has been fixed. It was a bug, see this merge request: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/313931
There a quite a lot of toxic comments there already, please dont add to the pile.
please dont add to the pile
please do. it is first time i am hearing about this, for example. and i have my doubts this “bug” would have been fixed if it were not for a “lot of toxic comments”
There is a difference between the justified public backlash that happened and the piling on the developer who merged the request after it was fixed.
there is and this is the former.
and as the linked news is 20 hours old it is definitely fresh news that people want and should know about, despite the fact it has been fixed since then. the fix doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
They specifically asked not to comment on the PR, comments on the PR don’t give the issue any extra visibility. They didn’t ask not to comment here or to stop making threads, they linked a PR and then asked not dogpile that specific PR.
oh! well now it makes sense. i misread that part.
was the buggy commit done… because of AI?
That’s seems potentially likely. I can imagine maybe the programmer had a written at some point that the AI itself needed to state it was written by copilot whenever it made merges. Then when it worked on that area, that directive got skewed and ended up applying it to VS Code itself.
please dont add to the pile
Incorrect. Crab together strong. Microsoft needs to know they fucked up.
The bug was fixed, but it still adds itself as co-author by default if you as much as use code completion powered by Copilot.
Combined with the fact that this doesn’t show up in your commit message dialog, and that is nothing but blatant advertising, this is just unacceptable.
I don’t necessarily mind crediting Copilot if it did substantial amount of the work, but it also seems redundant nowadays when AI has become as ubiquitous as using an IDE. Having used it for code completion just doesn’t seem to warrant co-author credit in that context. In other words if I had been able to edit that part of the commit message I’d probably be a lot less annoyed by this.
As it is, it’s just blatant overreach by Microsoft. Microsoft doing Microsoft things. Nothing has changed since the 90s.
Yeah, I don’t include the person down the hall when I ask for their help unless they are making final design decisions alongside me. If copilot is doing 40% of the work, sure. Just existing nearby isn’t enough.
Also, CoPilot isn’t a person. It shouldn’t be a co-author for the same reason Google and StackOverflow aren’t.
