For git, there is the git diff and blame plugins, but there’s no plugin for a git tree…
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sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
On other editors, I like VSCodium the best. Something like Neovim or Helix is a bit too hardcore for me, and I like having a folder tree to navigate between different files. Sublime Text isn’t open-source and, in my experience, VSCodium is more customisable with plugins and such. Lite XL is one I tried recently and seems interesting with a bunch of plugins as well, but doesn’t include a GUI for the settings page (there’s a plugin for that though, but strange that it’s not built-in…). I still like Lite XL, it’s got support for a bunch of languages. The main drawback for me is that there doesn’t seem to be a git branch tree or any way to run code within the code editor.
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
I use Kate, which meets most of your requirements, except that it doesn’t have a huge plugin ecosystem.
kate-editor.org
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
I think I’ve tried that before and didn’t like it, but completely forgot the reason why. Maybe it’s time for another go?
Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
It does have some quirks. I feel like there’s one workflow that works really well, which is the workflow of the single core maintainer, and whenever you deviate from that, then yeah, features may be missing that you’d expect or things just don’t work as smoothly.
But it has gotten some cool upgrades in recent years, like LSP support has basically transformed it into a mini-IDE and when you press Ctrl+Alt+i, you get a text search across all menu entries.
There’s probably more things that I’m forgetting, but the quirkiness also got reduced quite a bit. Like, I would always use the File System Browser plugin, because it was the only one that worked well enough for what I wanted, and I just dealt with manually navigating into each project directory. Nowadays, I prefer the Project plugin, because that now works smoothly enough for that same purpose.
It’s still a bit weird that I can’t drag-and-drop files from Project plugin’s file tree, but I just click “Open Containing Folder” in the context menu and then do it in my file manager, so it isn’t a huge deal…
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I’ve installed Kate and it seems pretty good. It’s quite customisable in terms of the layout and such(similar to VSCodium), and it seems to have most of the things I need. I’ll have to try both of them out and decide on which I like better.
Two things about Kate I don’t like though: there’s no everforest theme (fortunately I found Tokyo Night to be pretty good), and the file picket window doesn’t follow my GNOME theme and is a bright white box. I guess that’s because Kate doesn’t support GTK themes?
Also, what’s the difference between what looks like three different folder tree buttons (Document seems to only show one file, and then Project and File Browser plugin both show the full tree of the folder you have opened)? And is there an equivalent for the “Code Runner” plugin? If not, I guess I could always just run “python filename.py”, but a play/run button would be nice.