Hi. I'm looking for a good code editor that doesn't have any AI in it at all. My problem is, I like modern code editors like VSCodium, but I think it has AI or at least supports it. I know Zed has AI and Zed is kind of complicated to use. Here are my requests for a code editor:

No AI or telemetry Built-in live preview for HTML Built-in terminal Extensions

Right now, I'm using Pulsar, but it has no live preview that I know of. Any suggestions help. I'm not a fan of notepad++, though. It's very complicated to setup and use. Thanks in advance!

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[–] somegeek@programming.dev 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

People here gave great suggestions!

simple graphical: Kate
powerful but complicated graphical: Emacs
simple terminal: Helix
Powerful but complicated terminal: Neovim
(honorable mention) graphical: Geany

Live HTML previews isn't a dealbreaker feature. Use external tools like https://github.com/Abenezer-Daniel-1/live-html

So now this requirement is decoupled from your editor.

[–] sinewyshadow@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I read that Emacs does have live preview, but that could be wrong. I'm not advanced enough yet to use Emacs, but maybe someday I will be!

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Emacs has basically everything. If you are willing to set it up.

Like I said, my suggestion is to not get hung up on the live preview feature and use an external tool for that. This way you can decouple your editor from that specific functionality you need.