Discussion
VS Code is acting up a bit for me and while I wouldn't mind switching to something else I just can't find anything I really like.
I think Zed is the closest runner up and I'm actually using that actively on my Linux laptop that I use for hobby Zig projects, but there's something about it that doesn't quite feel great with my typical workloads on my Windows desktop machine.
I'd somewhat like to go a bit less IDE-ish and use terminals more for some tasks, but haven't found a way I like really.
@scherzog Yeah I've ran Gram a bit as well. It's about the same experience as Zed albeit slightly worse (unfortunately). But might acceptable.
Debugging c++ sucks though but I think that goes for everything outside of VS Code because basically everything else is lldb based and that's a bit shaky on our project at least. Might be user error on my end idk.
Over time, the little scripts and bits and pieces I've built have made working directly on cli, and just doing basic vi editing quite handy.
But those things can take a while to build I think.
@doctormo Yeah I can imagine, but I still _kind of_ like the idea of it.
I'm not sure I want the actual editor to be terminal though. I've tested a few and while some might be ok they seem a bit limited by the whole terminal interface. For example windows terminal (not sure about others) doesn't seem to be able to pass "ctrl+shift+key" to the program, which disqualifies a lot of the shortcuts I usually have e.g. ctrl+shift+z for undo (which is pretty standard nowadays)
Ah, undo is `u` in vi, redo is `:redo` which is a bit of a keyfull if I'm honest.
Not sure about windows terms, haven't used windows since windows 98. Sounds annoying, though I thought you could install other shells now?
@doctormo Yeah I don't love vi-ish stuff unfortunately. Would have more options in terminal if I did. :)
Yeah there are others but don't know if they're better really. Tried another one now that had the same problem.
Konsole on my linux machine seems to do ctrl+shift properly. (Testing in Fresh editor because it has a key debugger thing.) I _think_ I have had similar issues the last time I tried this on Linux, but I may misremember or things have changed.
@SonnyBonds FWIW there is Gram which is a fork of Zed that's focused on ripping out the AI bits, silent background downloads of who knows what and gradually cleaning up the vibeslop.
C++ projects without CMake are still going to be a bit of a pain though...