In search of a non-electron text editor that can fold | Are emacs and (neo)vim my only options?
In search of a non-electron text editor that can fold | Are emacs and (neo)vim my only options?
The following gif demonstrates folding:
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If I recall correctly KDE's Kate has folding and isn't Electron-based (Qt-based?)
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Thanks for another endorsement of Kate!
By the recommendation of others, I've actually installed and tried out Kate in the mean time.
So far, so good. 🙂
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Kate has been cool so far. Thank you for (yet) another endorsement!
However, I've been hearing conflicting narratives on Geany's folding capabilities. I've yet to test it out (as there's a long list I have to go over), but would you like to chime in with your thoughts on this matter? To be more precise, I desire to fold (at least) Markdown headings with it (as seen in the gif). Thanks in advance!
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My brother Emacs is literally king for this. Check out org mode as well.
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I am starting to attest this. I've tested a couple of text editors since yesterday and -surprisingly- only Kate (and KDevelop) have (so far) been able to pull this off.
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obligatory DOOM-Emacs mention
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Yup, Doom Emacs is definitely pretty lit. If it wasn't clear already, the gif in the post has been made with it.
FWIW, I actually started using Emacs through Spacemacs. And, honestly, I don't know if either one of the two has technical merit over the other. However, at some point, when I was working with (slightly) larger files, I just clearly started to notice input lag. Mind you, my laptop is starting to show his age, but input lag isn't something I was used to experience otherwise. As such, out of frustration, I pivoted to Doom and the rest has been history 😅.
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The zed editor has code folding and it written from the ground up in Rust. I don't use it myself, but rumour has it that it's really fast.
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I've also heard great things about it. Thanks for your endorsement! Unfortunately, correctly installing Zed on my distro might be more trouble than worth it at the moment. Hopefully the issue(s) will be resolved (very) soon. I would love to test it out and see it for myself.
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Qt Creator
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Thanks for mentioning an editor I would otherwise have missed!
Uhmmm..., I just installed it. First impressions were pretty good. For some reason, I assumed it would work as well as Kate (and Kdevelop) have. However, I wasn't able to replicate the folding functionality within the Markdown file.
Would you happen to know what I'm doing wrong? Your help is much appreciated!
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That visual pattern compression though
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Very interesting. I suppose that's an artifact of the
ffmpeghacking used to convert the screencast to a gif. Would you happen to know what I could do to prevent that from happening in the future?Btw, FWIW, I seem to only notice this myself when I'm on the phone. Does the picture above also happen to be from your phone?
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The screenshot is from my desktop with wide enough screen on Lemmy web (programming.dev).
The issue is one of scaling.
When I open the image without being resized into the website layout, it has the following visual pattern:
When I zoom out to 50% it looks (almost?) fine
Did you scale the source with ffmpeg? Do you have a visual pattern in your console background? The simplest solution would be to have a solid color as background. The second best to render a small enough size that it does not get resized in the browser.
At 1920x1038, it's very big right now. I'm surprised the font is big enough to be readable. I assume you scaled it up or have a high dpi display resulting in this.
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UPDATE: For posterity's sake, I'd like to reflect on the last couple of days.
First of all, I'd like to thank everyone that has contributed to the discussion! Were it not for your recommendations/suggestions/endorsements, then I might not have found a valid alternative.
Secondly, I've taken every single recommendation pretty seriously. As such, I've either installed them to see for myself if I was able to reproduce the functionality found in the gif found above. Or, didn't install them to begin with due to the suggested installation methods not passing through my (rather) strict policy on software. Regardless, in the end, I've only found two pieces of software that satisfied the bill: Kate and KDevelop.
KDevelop is pretty cool, but is more of an IDE rather than a text editor. As such, I've landed on Kate.
But, perhaps more than anything, I've come to really appreciate Emacs (and Neovim). And, perhaps more than ever, I feel ready to take them on 💪. Wish me luck 😊.
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