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!
Neovim.
Nano Vim Vi
Zed has a simple disable_ai: true config setting which disables everything related to AI.
I have never heard it’s complicated from anyone. I use it every day and it’s amazing.
I’m giving Zed another shot. I like the layout. I’m not sure if it has Live Preview or not, but I’ll look into it.
Who cares if it supports AI if it doesn’t ship with it by default?
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+1 for pulsar
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I’ve been using it for many, many years. C++, Bash, Python, LaTeX, Rust…The setup and learning can take a bit but once you figure it out, you can move your config file across machines. You can define your own functions, define shortcuts per mode you’re in and lots more. Works both in GUI and CL
Geany is quite a nice, simple editor. Very lightweight, open-source, and no AI.
The line break system is weird and should be opt-in, not opt-out, but yes, otherwise, Geany is great! I’ve otherwise simply been using Xed on Linux Mint.
Second this!
You can easily disable all AI features in Zed.
not enough. we need ZERO a.i trash. Why need to waste developing energy in develop a.i shit? no need. i repeat: we need ZERO A.I trash in a text editor
Gram, an AI free Zed fork, fits this perfectly.
As an other commenter mentioned, you can read their mission statement here: https://gram-editor.com/docs/mission/
I was going to mention the same. Zed has a single global “Disable AI” option which works well.
Not sure about live HTML preview, but I ended up picking Gram as well, on my search for AI-free software. (By the way, I found open-slopware a good resource for this.) Someone else already mentioned it in this thread, but I wanted to add some context. Gram is a fork of Zed, which is built for and with AI. It is therefore already tainted, if that’s something you care about. However, I found the Manifesto neat. (It also has official support for Zig which is what I was looking for specifically at the time.)
Oh and I was also recommended Kate. I haven’t gotten to try it, but it could be an alternative worth considering.
Not sure about preview, but Kate?
Kate rules.
I’m always surprised by its sheer power
I got markdown previews somehow so it can probably do HTML too!
It does have preview, the plugin has to be enabled/may need some libraries installed.
Neovim. No other editor comes close to it.
I love Neovim, but it lacks live HTML preview that the OP specifically requested
That’s super easy to fix with tools like entr. That’s what I use when I write Markdown documents so I can automatically generate the plain text file to a PDF document using Pandoc, and preview it simply by saving the file in Neovim. :)
I also second this!
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Have you tried disabling the AI in Zed? There’s a toggle in the settings to disable all AI features. I’ve disabled the AI and it’s actually a really nice, responsive, clean editor. Just one toggle, and it doesn’t re-enable itself. The whole “AI-native” marketing really put me off trying it, but it’s now become my go-to IDE for when I’m working on a project where I want a more fully-featured IDE than Vim (my go-to for just editing text files eg standalone scripts, small projects).
If you don’t want to do that, or if you try it and still don’t like Zed, maybe Kate?
Built-in live preview for HTML
Only in electron based editors AFAIK. It requires an integrated browser engine, and electron already is an integrated browser engine so that makes it easy.
