Hey all, I've never been one to tinker too much with the default layouts or settings of any IDE I have used. Still, I feel like I need to make better use of the screen real estate available to me.<p>How do you like to layout up your dev environment?<p>When using Jetbrains' editors, I've always gone with files on the left, the terminal at the bottom, and code in the centre; I wonder what other people have found ergonomic or enjoyed.<p>I'm also keen to hear from those who don't use IDEs of course!
I like to mess with it as little as needed to get the thing functioning. Usually install the Monokai theme and that's about it.<p>IntelliJ + PyCharm + GoLand x (3 laptops + a Windows Desktop) = Ain't nobody got time for that.
I use a tiling window manager and usually have 2 to 4 "spaces" on a 32 inch screen.<p>With pycharm I often split at least two panes vertically sometimes more if necessary. Depending on what I do I also have firefox open on the same virtual desktop to have documentation and code side by side.<p>For smaller things I use neovim and usually have several terminal windows open at the same time for editing, running, testing, ....
I still prefer code that fits in 80 columns, so I tend to split the editor pane into as many vertical panes as fit on my monitor. I like to put the project file tree thing on the left, and I generally leave the terminal/debugger stuff down the bottom, although I'm not really a fan of that. I tend to hide the bottom panels when I'm actually coding.
Tmux + VIM. Never needed more. Basic layout with some conveniences like a nice scheme (Nord), nerdtree, and fugitive. Bindings so I can move seamlessly between VIM and tmux to do what I need. The upside of this is it's minimalist and in about 10 minutes I can set up an entirely new environment by pulling my dotfiles and running a script to do symbolic linking.