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I'd really love a proper IDE that works inside a terminal, I suppose this won't either? What I'm looking for is something like VS Code but that does its window drawing using curses. Not something as barebones as vim or emacs. VS Code for terminal would really describe it well.

It would be really handy to be able to jump into a remote machine and work on code that way without much lag or the need for heavy GUI stacks <3

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neovim and coc.nvim might be close to what you're looking for, if you can live with vim style motions, etc.

CoC basically takes VSCode addons and modifies them just enough to get them working in conjunction with neovim.

Thanks to you also! I can learn vim (better), that's not a huge problem (and it has some really useful shortcuts for stuff that take ages to do in a visual editor). I'm just not looking forward to figuring it all out if you know what I mean. Not trying to be critical but it does sound like a lot less accessible.

Just to give some background: I'm not someone that spends hours in an IDE every day. I'd just like something to easily install and that I can just jump into, and that makes less frequently used features easy to find with a menu or something.

Basically VS Code but then ideally in a terminal so that I can run it inside tmux, and so it will work fine over a slower connection.

VS Code, while suboptimal IMO with its Electron implementation, does show the way for an accessible IDE with great support for plugins. Even someone who doesn't use it daily can figure it out. But it's GUI only :(

VS code has the new SSH mode where the language services and other plugins work on the remote machine while the rendering is local (last time I tried it I was unable to elevate permissions to write to root files which made it a PITA to do stuff like edit machine config).

Oh I didn't know of that, that sounds interesting. I'll give that a try, thanks!

There are Vim plugins that enable you to do just that. I do have a few which allows me to run a terminal command, navigate directories, manage git repo...etc all without leaving Vim

Thanks for the tip!! It sounds like something difficult to learn and set up though :) That's one thing I like about VS Code, it's quick to get into.

Do you have any guide to get started?

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