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Lapce – Fast open-source code editor

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Re: Lapce – Fast open-source code editor

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Post by pratio »

It's fantastic It's quite new so I understand the lack of support for syntax highlighting but

- it's fast

- has a built in terminal

- single binary

-rudimentary git support.

- It detected my virtualenv and opened the terminal accordingly.

Kudos to the developers, If you don't like it, it doesn't've to be your daily driver, won't be mine but this is amazing work

Re: Lapce – Fast open-source code editor

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Post by abainbridge »

woile wrote: post #8

It looks really promising. I wonder why code editors have the file explorer on the left side by default, if you resize it you move the whole text (unless you write in a right-to-left language). A colleague made me aware of this a while ago and I cannot stop wondering. I moved it to the right ever since.

> if you resize it you move the whole text

What's wrong with moving the whole text?

Re: Lapce – Fast open-source code editor

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Post by dzhou121 »

syrusakbary wrote: post #30

This is awesome! They seem to be using Wasmer [1] under the hood for their WebAssembly/WASI plugin system. I would love to know if the IDE frontend could be compiled to Wasm (using WebGL/WebGPU under the hood) so it could run in the browsers, similarly to Makepad [2] [1] https://wasmer.io/ [2] https://makepad.dev/

Potentially, the UI bits Lapce uses such as Druid, Winit, Wgpu all have the potential to compile into WASM. But it's not a priority.

Re: Lapce – Fast open-source code editor

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Post by thejosh »

woile wrote: post #8

It looks really promising. I wonder why code editors have the file explorer on the left side by default, if you resize it you move the whole text (unless you write in a right-to-left language). A colleague made me aware of this a while ago and I cannot stop wondering. I moved it to the right ever since.

I think that Visual Studio has it on the right hand side by default, but that's the only editor I can think of that does it.

Re: Lapce – Fast open-source code editor

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Post by Etherlord87 »

woile wrote: post #8

It looks really promising. I wonder why code editors have the file explorer on the left side by default, if you resize it you move the whole text (unless you write in a right-to-left language). A colleague made me aware of this a while ago and I cannot stop wondering. I moved it to the right ever since.

Why is moving the entire text a problem? It needs to be redrawn, but that's not expensive - it's like moving an entire window.

If for some reason you needed to resize the left side very often, or it would even resize automatically, I would understand the concern.

Re: Lapce – Fast open-source code editor

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Post by topnde »

thejosh wrote: post #34
woile wrote: post #8

It looks really promising. I wonder why code editors have the file explorer on the left side by default, if you resize it you move the whole text (unless you write in a right-to-left language). A colleague made me aware of this a while ago and I cannot stop wondering. I moved it to the right ever since.

I think that Visual Studio has it on the right hand side by default, but that's the only editor I can think of that does it.

It does not have it by default on the right, but you can move it yourself.

Re: Lapce – Fast open-source code editor

#39

Post by thejosh »

Looks really promising, it starts crazy fast (sublime speeds), but no syntax highlighting and opening a project was buggy. Can't also full screen without making the entire thing full screen (clicking + on a Mac brings the whole thing full screen).
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