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Re: Visual Studio Code 1.0

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Post by ld00d »

agentgt wrote: post #123

Does anybody else use several editors all the time? I use Emacs, Vim, Eclipse, Atom, and Intellij. I don't stick to one. I wish I could stick to one editor but there is always some editor that does a way better job at a particular task. Each editor has its killer feature. I have tried turning emulation of emacs/vim on many editors to provide consistency and its never been really good. Thus I have several "default" ke…

I'm constantly switching. Right now I'm on vim for js/html and IntelliJ for Java. I've used ST3 quite a bit. I used Atom for a while, Brackets for a while, VS Code for a bit.

The only thing that trips me up really is switching from vim to one of those others, and I sometimes run vim modes in those.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.0

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Post by enjoy-your-stay »

neves wrote: post #130

VSCode knockouts Atom in a dispute for becoming a developer editor in a corporate computer. Sure, you all have root password in your computer. Unfortunately, I belong to a lower race: the corporate developer. I work in a Windows 7 machine, don't have root password and there's a big wall called proxy around me. I didn't know about VSCode before this HN post, but I was trying to use a new editor instead of Notepad++. I…

Just wanted to say I find Notepad++ to be an excellent tabbed editor, especially for XML or SQL. I use it on windows all the time and really miss it on OS X where I find Textmate to be a bit awkward.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.0

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Post by ngrilly »

bsharitt wrote: post #126

I'm a long time vim user who's switched mostly to Atom(at least for bigger projects, vim is still my "quick fix" editor). Last time I tried VS Code(6ish months ago?), I liked it all right, but stuck with Atom because at the time the availability of vim like bindings was weak and ruby support was lacking.

What made you switch from vim to Atom?

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.0

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Post by neves »

enjoy-your-stay wrote: post #212
neves wrote: post #130

VSCode knockouts Atom in a dispute for becoming a developer editor in a corporate computer. Sure, you all have root password in your computer. Unfortunately, I belong to a lower race: the corporate developer. I work in a Windows 7 machine, don't have root password and there's a big wall called proxy around me. I didn't know about VSCode before this HN post, but I was trying to use a new editor instead of Notepad++. I…

Just wanted to say I find Notepad++ to be an excellent tabbed editor, especially for XML or SQL. I use it on windows all the time and really miss it on OS X where I find Textmate to be a bit awkward.

I like Notepad++, but I prefer one that works in Windows and in my linux home computer.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.0

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Post by Aldo_MX »

anamoulous wrote: post #137
evmar wrote: post #69

I'm your standard unix greybeard, the sort that uses org-mode to outline-structure their emacs config (that's actually what I do, not even a hypothetical), so I approached VSCode with skepticism. I have actually been really impressed. It's fast and responsive, even on Linux, and the TypeScript tooling is fantastic. I think with a bit more UI work (like vi keybindings) it could potentially become my preferred editor.

I'm chuckling (not in a bad way!) at the emacs user that prefers vi keybindings expressing optimism about a Microsoft editor written in a statically typed variant of Javascript. Progress is cool.

Why? emacs has had an "evil mode" (vi keybindings) for a while

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.0

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Post by agentgt »

ld00d wrote: post #211
agentgt wrote: post #123

Does anybody else use several editors all the time? I use Emacs, Vim, Eclipse, Atom, and Intellij. I don't stick to one. I wish I could stick to one editor but there is always some editor that does a way better job at a particular task. Each editor has its killer feature. I have tried turning emulation of emacs/vim on many editors to provide consistency and its never been really good. Thus I have several "default" ke…

I'm constantly switching. Right now I'm on vim for js/html and IntelliJ for Java. I've used ST3 quite a bit. I used Atom for a while, Brackets for a while, VS Code for a bit. The only thing that trips me up really is switching from vim to one of those others, and I sometimes run vim modes in those.

Yes vim keys frequently trip me up.

One of the major reasons I keep vim in my repertoire is that it is on every machine I have to SSH into and it can handle monstrous files. Vim is also better at editing config files (SSH ops stuff) in general since you are typically manipulating and not creating content.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.0

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Post by spdionis »

eropple wrote: post #155
jhasse wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For example the Git integration is awesome and even better than Atom's (you can commit, push, ...). Of course you can do a lot with extensions, but at least in Atom's case they break a lot for me.

Well, okay, let's talk about that. Is having source control in your text editor enough of a benefit to one's daily routine as to be a step change of productivity or quality of life? It may be for you and I'm not saying you're wrong for that, I'm asking because it isn't for me; I have an alt and a tab key. Bear in mind that the claim wasn't that it's better in some ways , but that it's sweepingly better than the stuff…

Being able to press ctrl+K instead of alt tab -> write "git commit -m" is pretty nice and much faster...

EDIT: that's only the most trivial benefit of git integration

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.0

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Post by maxxxxx »

allannienhuis wrote: post #136
maxxxxx wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why the downvotes? Am I missing something here?

I didn't downvote, but you can easily answer your question about what's interesting/exciting about it by simply reading the other comments here. It's pretty clear this scratches the itches of more than a few devs.

I read the comments, have tried it out and concluded it's just an editor :-). Evidently other people came to different conclusions.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.0

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Post by neves »

wlesieutre wrote: post #186
dubdubbub wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Atom was knocked out in the first minute. 'knocked out'? > must install a column mode extension, need to install a ntlm proxy authentication downloaded from (argh!) Sourceforge Why not just set up atom to use your existing corporate proxy? > failed to install the extension because it needs a compiler Sounds like bullshit, what extension? > You've got a new fan VSCode! So all of your complaints about atom are actual…

Googled part of this for you: >Why not just set up atom to use your existing corporate proxy? "Many of these text editors support proxy servers, but none of them that I have tried support NTLM for authentication and if your corporate proxy is using NTLM they simply cannot connect to it. Or lets say not directly! Actually the only solution I have found is to use a software called CNTLM that can act as a proxy server i…

I thought they were, but the simple installation of the column select mode failed with a message of missing compiler. I don't want to delve inside my editor internals.

The first difficult thing is to discover that I have to install the sublime-style-column-selection package. So it failed and didn't researched more.

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