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There’s a fast new code editor in town - Zed (www.youtube.com)
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[–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

Only just got a 120Hz monitor recently, so reading scrolling text now is so much easer and faster than before. Looking forward to any IDE that can match that kind of framerate performance as well.

Too bad I don't own a mac to be able to test out the current release of Zed as an IDE. However, I'm not sure about the growing trend of rasterizing the entire GUI, as compared to conventional text rendering methods or GUI libs with established accessibility support.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    VS Code at least on my 144Hz Android phone supports High refresh rate. No idea why this is a "special feature".

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Are you using the PWA, self hosted or via code spaces/other VPS? With which web browser?
    I tried hosting code server via termux for a while, but a user proot felt too slow, even if the PWA UI ran silky smooth.
    Perhaps when my warranty runs out I'll root the device to switch to using a proper chroot instead.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't know if it's your cup of tea, but Neovide provides smooth scrolling at arbitrary refresh rates. (It's a graphical frontend for Neovim, my IDE of choice.)

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Do you use it combined with terminal emulators?
    Wouldn't that result in vertical scroll snapping to textual lines, and horizontal scroll snapping to character widths?
    A personal preference I suppose for navigation, but a bit jumpy to read from while moving rapidly.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    the whole point is that its not in a terminal. its a gui frontend.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    I was more curious about horizontal/vertical scroll snapping of text, given if the underlying vim properties are still limited to terminal style rendering of whole fractions of text lines and fixed characters, then it's less of a concern what exactly the GUI front end is.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It scrolls smoothly, it doesn't snap line by line. Although once the scroll animation is complete the final positions of lines and columns do end up aligned to a grid.

    Neovim (as opposed to Vim) is not limited to terminal rendering. It's designed to be a UI-agnostic backend. It happens that the default frontend runs in a terminal.

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