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[–] cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me 34 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • Directory Opus: The best explorer replacement, never seen anything else come close.
  • EmEditor, the fastest text editor, and the only text editor I’ve seen that can easily handle multi-GB (the limit is 250 GB or something) files.
  • YNAB classic, because I prefer the interface over the few envelope budgeting OSS tools
  • JetBrains IDE’s, though there’s really not much OSS competition in the full IDE space.
[–] reddithalation@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use klogg for browsing massive text files, it works pretty good for me

[–] 4bh1j47@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I use lnav for this, it works very well and the search and filtering etc are great.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you mind expanding a little on Directory Opus ? I always have four or five explorer windows open and I am constantly annoyed with the clunkiness of Windows explorer. I know there are a few alternatives but not sure how they compare.

[–] cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Scriptable, dual explorer, dual tree, tabs for both explorers. Many built-in features like showing folder sizes, generally a lot of settings, it’s one of those tools that comes with a search function for its settings.

Just a lot of tiny things as well, like tabs can be locker to a folder (either allowing changes and resetting, or not allowing changes), and also linked (so clicking a certain tab in one explorer always opens up one in the other). I probably use only 5% of its capabilities :D

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks a lot for elaborating. I installed Free Commander in the meantime, see if it's enough for my use.

[–] cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me specifically, the killer feature was dual explorer with dual tree. At least at the time, no others supported that.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I dont think there's a dual tree in Free Commander... It's just the one tree for both panes. But there's a favourite list and that should cover most of my needs. Let's see. Cheers !

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

UltraEdit is probably the oldest editor which was designed specifically for editing super large files. It has no limits, but it is also proprietary.

[–] cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me 1 points 1 year ago

Slower, last I checked. Though that was a long time ago, probably 10 years.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I tried installing this new "Files Community", kinda shady software even though opensource, and it didnt even install due to some libraries missing I guess...

[–] what_is_a_name@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Re: JetBrains - isn’t VS Code oss?

[–] cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even with plugins, VSCode is more IDE-lite and iirc the C# plugin is not OSS anymore. Also "not much" competition allows for some ;)

[–] what_is_a_name@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I see. Did not realise there is such a defined line.

I do find PyCharm easier than VSCode but never could put a finger on it.

[–] saltedFish@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He said full IDE. You ever used a full IDE?

[–] brunofin@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dude's getting downvoted but there's not much of an integrated development environment in a glorified text editor with plugins once you realize the competition really gives you all the tools you need to never ever really need to leave the environment.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Most of the competition is modular with plugins as well.

[–] snowe@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

VS code isn’t an IDE.