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Code in TIDE

The Code section is a worktree’s files as a tree, marked with what git says of each: a way to read what an agent is working on, and to change a file yourself, without leaving TIDE. There is no CLI command for it: a script or an AI reads files itself.

What you see

Section titled “What you see”
wdx tide · shop-api
The tree of the worktree picked at its top, and a file open, read-only and highlighted. Click, scroll and type: it is live, and runs nothing.
  • The worktree is picked on the section’s first row, < main >: ← → there go through the project’s worktrees.
  • The tree holds the files git tracks and the untracked ones it does not ignore, directories first, folded until opened.
  • Marks at a row’s end are git’s letters, M modified, A added, D deleted, ? untracked, colored by kind; a directory says how many of its files changed.
  • A file’s tab is read-only, with line numbers and syntax highlighting in any of about 300 languages, built into wdx. A Markdown file shows rendered, and m switches it to its source and back since 0.5.0.

Keys

Section titled “Keys”
Key Where What it does
← → the worktree row the previous or next worktree
→ ← a directory open or fold it; ← on a file goes to its directory
Enter a file open it in a tab, read-only
e a file, or its tab edit it in your editor, in the tab
n N the tree a new file, or a new directory, where the cursor is
r a file or directory rename it
x a file or directory delete it, after a confirmation
/ the project pane filter: the rows that match what you type, in every section
m a Markdown file’s tab its source, or rendered
/ a file’s tab search in the file

How it behaves

Section titled “How it behaves”
  • Your editor is the editor setting: vi, vim, nvim, nano, hx or emacs. It runs in the tab as a terminal of its own, on the file in its worktree. Closing the tab asks whether to save or discard, and wdx types the editor’s own keys for it; when the editor exits, the tab is read-only again and reads the file anew. wdx deps install --name vi installs one that is missing.
  • Live. The tree and an open file are read again when files change on disk, as when an agent edits them.
  • Large and binary files say so rather than show.
  • The filter (/) narrows the whole pane: agents, worktrees and their changed files, the chosen worktree’s paths, docs and plans. Esc clears it.
  • Where it sits. Code comes last of the sections by default; tide.section_order changes the order, or leaves it out.

The changes of a worktree, rather than its files, are in Worktrees and diffs.