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"Vim and Emacs are still superior if you want to put the time in, and both have non-terminal interfaces." I don't need an instruction manual to figure out how to close VSCode.
You also won't need an instruction manual for a lot of other things, because you won't be able to do them at all .
Oh but that's needlessly hard and annoying? Well so are Vim and Emacs.
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The one thing that kills gvim for me is the inability to have one session with multiple windows. I use it anyway.
How would that be better than opening multiple gvim processes?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28text_editor%29 Atom = 2014 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_Code VSCode = 2015 Am I missing something? Sure, MS had some preview online IDE thing before VSCode came out, but that's not the same thing obviously.
Yes you are. Please read the original blog post. [1][2] Visual Studio code was originated from "Monaco" team, dated back in 2013. Eletron (formally Atom-shell) was dated in Feb-March 2014.[3] [1] http://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2016/04/14/vscode-1.0 [2] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/04/micros... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(software_framework)
That makes sense. I use things from the future all the time. /s
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…
"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" Sounds like an undeserving environment for a developer. Why not vote with your feet?
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…
Atom has Sumblime-Text-style column selection using (on Win) CTRL-ALT; it works very well and feels familiar for people coming from Sublime Text (which has been very popular for years now).
Actually, column selection is one of the things where I prefer Atom to VS Code (I love both editors for different reasons).
But maybe you needed some particular style of column selection?
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Why spend a few hours over the course of 60000+ working hours to learn how to use more effective tools?
Because I don't need them, and would rather focus my attention on the part of the job I actually care about. The simplest tool which doesn't waste my time is the best. I have found that I would rather use a simple editor with no features that I never have to think about, and automate repetitive tasks using the same tools I already use for automating repetitive tasks: programming languages.
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What, exactly and without sweeping generalities, does it do that is a transformative step over Sublime Text or Atom? Or, hell, even Kate?
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.
The only 'plugins' I use are a keyboard shortcut (cmd+space) which puts me in a terminal window and rupa/z[1] for jumping into a project directory.
Microsoft is doing some very cool stuff these days so props to them. "VSCode has done the thing that nobody expected MS to do, change the way code was written in Unix/Linux" though? I believe the term irrational exuberance applies. Let's not get carried away here.
However, even after setting wrappingColumn to an arbitrarily large number, VS Code greatly outperforms Atom. The click accuracy within a long line is off by several characters in my quick test, but good enough.
I was never comfortable using Atom because it would grind to a halt whenever I accidentally opened any files with long lines. VS Code just may be the first MS product that I'll use on my Mac on a daily basis. Looking forward to testing it out on a couple projects.