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Is there a program which is good for simply looking at code? It wouldn't be an editor per say, but a viewer. It should be tailored around code, have the usual highlighting, color themes is welcomed, maybe something that highlights comments, documentation and so on.

For development on Windows, this role have always been filled by Notepad++ for me because of its integration to the context menu. It does the job, but I'm wondering if there is actually something like this on the market.

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  • 4
    5y
    Vscode seems nice to me for that, I consider it pretty light, surely lighter than my usual phpstorm

    Or just use @highlight bot :)
  • 1
    5y
    @alexbrooklyn Not light enough for me, and since I use Code daily, I would like to use a separate program for looking into other codebases and projects.
  • 4
    5y
    I'm using Sublime Text as my ad hoc text viewer/editor. Very snappy, has syntax highlighting, no visual clutter like toolbars etc.
  • 2
    5y
    Vim? 🤔
  • 0
    5y
    Emacs is very fast (as long as you don't completely overload it with plugins like I do), and you can always start it as a daemon so that every time you call it, it just connects to the local server.
    Xi is supposed to be extreme fast, but for now frontends are lacking
  • 0
    5y
    Try bat.
    https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/...
  • 0
    5y
    @alexbrooklyn reported.
  • 0
    5y
    @Biggy vim? Or what do you mean exactly?
  • 1
    5y
    build your own?

    something between https://www.typora.io/ and https://zeplin.io/ and google docs, with a confluence integration.
  • 0
    5y
    Some Zen plugin for any editor, maybe?
  • 0
    5y
    @alexbrooklyn 😂 I’m kidding
  • 1
    5y
    Notepad++ gives pretty good highlighting based on file type, but if you use vs code already, why not open new vs code Windows? I often have 2 or 3 vs code Windows open, spread across the monitors. Ctrl+K O is a great key sequence to open the current active file in a new window.
  • 0
    5y
    @nibor or maybe using the native spliting functionality in VSCode?

    It sounds like what this guy wants is some sort of Adobe Acrobat for code, which sounds AWFUL.

    Tbh he should probably just write an extension for vscode that does what he wants lmao
  • 1
    5y
    I don't think you're gonna get anything lighter than VSCode that also has the required features of basically an entire IDE
  • 1
    5y
    What you are looking for here is MS Paint IDE (https://ms-paint-i.de/)
  • 0
    5y
    @arcsector hey, I like the concept. Something tailored around reading code, you could have highlighting, draw tools, outlines, advanced code navigation, git lens, screenshot snippets, you name it.
  • 0
    5y
    I use Sublime for a light text editor/viewer or just vim depending on what environment I'm working in at that moment.
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