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I've been using Codebuff (formerly manicode) for a few weeks. I think they have nailed the editing paradigm and I'm using it multiple times a day.

If you want to make a multi-file edit in cursor, you open composer, probably have to click to start a new composer session, type what you want, tell it which files it needs to include, watch it run through the change (seeing only an abbreviated version of the changes it makes), click apply all, then have to go and actually look at the real diff.

With codebuff, you open codebuff in terminal and just type what you want, and it will scan the whole directory to figure out which files to include. Then you can see the whole diff. It's way cleaner and faster for making large changes. Because it can run terminal commands, it's also really good at cleaning up after itself, e.g., removing files, renaming files, installing dependencies, etc.

Both tools need work in terms of reliability, but the workflow with Codebuff is 10x better.


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brandonchen11/07/2024

Thanks for being an early user and supporter! You've helped us catch so many issues that have helped us get the product to where it is today!