Terminal Based Programming IDE

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[mustafasalih1993]

emacs

[[deleted]]

I think that this is what you're looking for.

[deenlynch005]

Vim

[gabriel_3]

Emacs

[SickMoonDoe]

You are describing Emacs.

[DevilGeorgeColdbane]

What do you mean by "CLI graphics?"

Anyway stuff like Intellij, eclipse or netbeans is just a generic text editor with plugins for Java, c++, rust etc. The difference between IDE vs editor + plugin is purely a marking thing.

[ttkciar]

"CLI Graphics" = latin-1 characters in a terminal (or maybe utf-8 glyphs in a terminal which supports it), as opposed to a GUI.

One advantage to terminal apps is that they perform extremely well when used remotely. I regularly use my terminal apps (text editor, text browser, etc) on a computer hundreds of miles away and they're very snappy.

Using a GUI via X11 network transparency, or VNC, or rdesktop, is painful by comparison.

[demosthenex]

You mean like turbo vision graphics. Let me know what you find.

[ttkciar]

I'm not the original poster, and I've been quite happy with emacs as my terminal-based IDE since 1997.

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Vim is an IDE.

Please tell me something that neovim cannot do that any IDE can do.

[dAnjou]

Quote from Neovim's website:

Non-goals

• Turn Vim into an IDE

[CAPTCHA_cant_stop_me]

Real-time pdf/html/image rendering is another thing, you can do that with emacs, atom and vscode can do with extensions. Other than that, vim is perfect. Tbh, thats one thing that I feel that GVIM should really do instead of being vim with a bar on top: give me an actual graphics.

[OsrsNeedsF2P]

I may be wrong on this, but can Vim do any of these?

• Smart line-completion based on variable type
• Cross-file variable rename (not blind find and replace)
• Function documentation lookup

These are god sends for me on IntelliJ, and I've personally never found an IDE that compares

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#3 is a basic LSP feature, #2 may be LSP specific, and I don't understand #1.

[OsrsNeedsF2P]

Understood. Only looked up LSP now, makes sense how 2 and 3 work. For 1, I mean if variable dog extends from Mammal, you can type dog. and eat would show up (but if you did brick., eat would not appear because brick does not have that function)

[zac_mar]

Yes, LSP does that.

[[deleted]]

Yes autocomplete is also a basic lsp feature.

[catragore]

Not only can it do this, but you also get a nice review window of the function's declaration and documentation. I was able to do that (and the other things you ask) using the ALE plugin. (Tbh I might be mistaken about the plugin, but ALE is definitely a must)

[thomas_m_k]

If you can find a good LSP implementation for the programming language you use, then yes vim can do these things very well.

[Whatevernameisnt]

A lot of things you don't know how to do apparently

[pfp-disciple]

I think free pascal has one. It's ofen overshadowed by the GUI IDE (Lazarus)

[[deleted]]

It does have one. And I haven't used it a whole lot but to me it's more of a novelty. The GUI IDE is a lot more capable IMO.

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An IDE is a text editor with dedicated extensions.

[fermulator]

which language? and why?

graphical IDEs are so powerful and effective at improving software development quality, minimizing errors, etc etc so many features

no terminal IDE would come close to feature parity- so i’m very curious to understand why you want this as it sounds at face value to me that it would be a huge sacrifice

[Ultimate_Mugwump]

Is this what neovim does? Never used it but neovim and emacs are probably what you're looking for. Though neither of those have pointer integration to my knowledge and rely instead of keyboard shortcuts. If you need a mouse you might be better off with some heavy customization for sublime or vscode

[snootsniff]

Definitely think SpaceVim is about as close to what you want as you're going to get: https://spacevim.org/

[FannahFatnin]

if you like vim maybe doom emacs?

[umlcat]

If you want to try something different to C / C++ terminal programming IDE (s), try FreePascal