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.
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.
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.
Wow didn’t expect a reply 2 months later. I’ll give the new version a try. Thanks!
Appreciate your patience enjoy the new features :)