Show HN: I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rust, over a weekend

Re:Show HN: I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rus... by xtracto on Monday June 22, 2026 @05:23PM (#48636400)

Pretty good, and I think I could definitely use it. One thing that I immediately missed is syntax coloring. For Markdown and other known extensions. I am sure it will be trivial to add it.

Another possible useful feature would be to add "open in system" or similar in the right-click menu for a file, to open the file with whatever application the OS has bound to it.

EDIT: I see there's a plugin thing that when clicked installs the highlighting. Cool!

EDIT: Also missing is selectively staging lines of a changed file to commit. I would actually change the behaviour of the Git UI so that it matches the VSCode one, to reduce the learning curve. Most people already know how that works, no need to make them learn a new UX.

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Re:Show HN: I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rus... by kyle-ssg on Monday June 22, 2026 @05:56PM (#48636798)

Yep of course, Syntax colouring will come. And it was intentionally left out first couple days due to critical path for me, I imagine I'll add intelisense too but I'm glad I decided to make language support installable - goal is fast + great Git.

>open in system:

Isn't that reveal in finder? I did add this if so :).

> selectively staging lines

Oh I've never actually done this! But I think I understand, so just pushing a few lines in a changed file. Fun! I've always used a different IDE where I don't think that's a thing. I'll add an issue.

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