Hey devs,
I recently wrapped the latest stable release of Tide42, a lightweight terminal-based IDE designed for speed, flexibility, and a clean coding experience — especially for those of us who live in the terminal.

Tide42 integrates tmux, nvim, and thoughtful Bash scripting into a seamless dev workflow with:

True 256-color support (color toggle with -c)

Elegant, fast session layout using tmux

Self-updating mechanism (--update) to pull the latest version from GitHub

Multi-distro install script for Debian, Arch, macOS (via apt, pacman, brew)

Respectful config handling – never overwrites your dotfiles

Simple interactive file launcher (tide42 <filename>)

Quiet mode for scripts (-q)

Try it out:
GitHub: github.com/logicmagix/tide42
License: GPLv3
Clone, install, and run tide42 to get started.

Hey devs,
I recently wrapped the latest stable release of Tide42, a lightweight terminal-based IDE designed for speed, flexibility, and a clean coding experience — especially for those of us who live in the terminal.

Tide42 integrates tmux, nvim, and thoughtful Bash scripting into a seamless dev workflow with:

True 256-color support (color toggle with -c)

Elegant, fast session layout using tmux

Self-updating mechanism (--update) to pull the latest version from GitHub

Multi-distro install script for Debian, Arch, macOS (via apt, pacman, brew)

Respectful config handling – never overwrites your dotfiles

Simple interactive file launcher (tide42 <filename>)

Quiet mode for scripts (-q)

Try it out:
GitHub: github.com/logicmagix/tide42
License: GPLv3
Clone, install, and run tide42 to get started.

Hey devs,
I recently wrapped the latest stable release of Tide42, a lightweight terminal-based IDE designed for speed, flexibility, and a clean coding experience — especially for those of us who live in the terminal.

Tide42 integrates tmux, nvim, and thoughtful Bash scripting into a seamless dev workflow with:

True 256-color support (color toggle with -c)

Elegant, fast session layout using tmux

Self-updating mechanism (--update) to pull the latest version from GitHub

Multi-distro install script for Debian, Arch, macOS (via apt, pacman, brew)

Respectful config handling – never overwrites your dotfiles

Simple interactive file launcher (tide42 <filename>)

Quiet mode for scripts (-q)

Try it out:
GitHub: github.com/logicmagix/tide42
License: GPLv3
Clone, install, and run tide42 to get started.

Hey devs,
I recently wrapped the latest stable release of Tide42, a lightweight terminal-based IDE designed for speed, flexibility, and a clean coding experience — especially for those of us who live in the terminal.

Tide42 integrates tmux, nvim, and thoughtful Bash scripting into a seamless dev workflow with:

True 256-color support (color toggle with -c)

Elegant, fast session layout using tmux

Self-updating mechanism (--update) to pull the latest version from GitHub

Multi-distro install script for Debian, Arch, macOS (via apt, pacman, brew)

Respectful config handling – never overwrites your dotfiles

Simple interactive file launcher (tide42 <filename>)

Quiet mode for scripts (-q)

Try it out:
GitHub: github.com/logicmagix/tide42
License: GPLv3
Clone, install, and run tide42 to get started.

OK What the hell man I love this in concept. Definitly not something I'd use, got my own setup and I like it quite alot, but fuck man I've always described NeoVim as a build it yourself text editor and you've said here "why stop at neovim?"

Hell yeah my guy. That's such a cool way to at least get your environment running on any system. Would love to look into this to see if I can do something similar. Right now I just have a bash script that builds up my env.

designed for speed, flexibility, and a clean coding experience

So, Acme for CLI?

great idea to just wrap existing tools! love that. now i just need to figure out how to switch out the editor...

I have a pretty complex nvim setup already for general editing. Is there any way this could handle all the custom nvim stuff somewhere else and leave my existing config alone? When I tried it just now it installed an init.vim next to my init.lua in ~/.config/nvim, which didn't clobber anything but did break both tide42 and normal nvim.

Emacs has panes. Is this supposed to imitate a fraction of the holy power?

Ugh how frustrating I get it. These issues have been solved in the latest release.. much cleaner install and config with seperate directories in ~/.config for nvim and tide42. Tide42 now calls on tide42.vim as its config file, not init.vim or init.lua so you can preserve your custom nvim setups and use Tide42 without conflicts.