anyone have good ideas for lighterweight text edit...
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Hamza
12/28/2018, 5:52 AManyone have good ideas for lighterweight text editors instead of idea? I try using vim but more suggestions are welcome. Idea is really heavy on my computer
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Shawn
12/28/2018, 5:53 AM#C09222272, first off
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Hamza
12/28/2018, 5:53 AMoh okay. i was debating whether or not to put it there.
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Shawn
12/28/2018, 5:54 AMsecondly, are you looking for a text editor or an IDE? Using IJ for all your regular text editing stuff outside of kotlin and java projects doesn’t make a whole lot of sense
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Hamza
12/28/2018, 5:55 AMi was talking about for kotlin
Hamza
12/28/2018, 5:55 AMsorry, i forgot mentioned
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Shawn
12/28/2018, 5:57 AMI think your best bet is Visual Studio Code with the Kotlin Language Server installed
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Hamza
12/28/2018, 5:58 AMvisual studio code..? isn’t that for visual basic stuff only?
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Shawn
12/28/2018, 5:58 AMnope.
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Hamza
12/28/2018, 5:58 AMhuh, let me check it out
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Shawn
12/28/2018, 5:59 AMI write a nontrivial amount of rust and bash in it, edit html and styles freehand, take notes, etc
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Hamza
12/28/2018, 5:59 AMdamn i can’t believe i didn’t know about this beforehand
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Shawn
12/28/2018, 5:59 AMalso use it for markdown editing
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Hamza
12/28/2018, 5:59 AMthanks man
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Shawn
12/28/2018, 5:59 AMnp
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gildor
12/28/2018, 6:11 AMMy +1 to Idea, just disable non used plugins, maybe tune memory settings. It Visual Studio Code is not light weight IMO
What is particulary “heavy” on your computer? RAM usage?
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frellan
12/28/2018, 9:08 AMVisual Studio Code is a great text editor, my personal favorite
frellan
12/28/2018, 9:09 AMThe resource usage between that amd IDEA is not even comparable. I love IDEA but its super slow, I have tried diaabling everything possible but the cursor still almost lags compared to VSCode.
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gildor
12/28/2018, 9:23 AMThe resource usage between that amd IDEA is not even comparableRAM, CPU? Did you tried to disable inspections (toggle on statusbar)
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Hamza
12/28/2018, 9:43 AMij just eats a lot of battery
Hamza
12/28/2018, 9:43 AMi have a long commute to my school and when i reach i lose atleast 40% of my battery in about 45 minutes
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gildor
12/28/2018, 9:45 AMij just eats a lot of batteryJust enable power-save mode which disables most of real time inspections
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Hamza
12/28/2018, 9:45 AMyep tried it
Hamza
12/28/2018, 9:45 AMfor some reason it took more battery for me
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gildor
12/28/2018, 9:46 AMAre you sure? 🤔 Maybe some other bug
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Hamza
12/28/2018, 9:46 AMmaybe
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gildor
12/28/2018, 9:46 AMwhat is your OS?
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Hamza
12/28/2018, 9:46 AMmacos mojave
Hamza
12/28/2018, 9:47 AMmy cpu is on average 5ÂşC hotter and my battery usage is about 5% more
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gildor
12/28/2018, 9:47 AMDid you try to disable Spotlight indexing for your working directory and build system cache?
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Hamza
12/28/2018, 9:48 AMill have to check that later. im not on my comp at the moment
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gildor
12/28/2018, 9:50 AMBecause Spotlight is really bad when you create a lot of temporary files all the time
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Dmitry Kandalov
12/28/2018, 10:00 AMIt’s about 30% in one hour for me on mojave (but it depends on what you’re doing I guess). I wonder if it’s actually IJ that eats your battery and not gradle with kotlin compiler 🤔 There is also
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Hamza
12/28/2018, 10:02 AMyes and for some reason it uses more battery for me
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hhariri
12/28/2018, 12:26 PM
I’d be interested to see where the exact issue lies and if you get the same issues with Code because I for one have horrendous battery life when I have Slack launched, contrary to IDEA.