[eralps]

Sometimes I just want to read code with highlighting. I want to open the project and search for some text in all the files. I don't want to wait for IntelliJ to take 30 seconds to open.

[jvolkman]

They've had something like that for a year. https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2020/04/lightedit-mode/

[eralps]

This is great but it has a lot of limitations. I will give it a try thanks.

[_underfl0w_]

You could use grep with vim or nano for quick searches and viewing without even leaving your terminal. Why bother with a GUI at all for that use case?

[eralps]

This idea assumes that one I am familiar with grep and vim or nano and two that I was using my terminal already. Which can be true or wrong. But, the discussion is not about whats the best way for searching for text in a file set. I am just talking about whats the use case in which I prefer VSCode over IntelliJ.

[sidsidev]

The delineation between those and VSCode seems unclear.