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Whenever I try a new text editor, I run into a problem: I absolutely love the feature where it auto-completes based on other words in open windows (or other files in the open project). But there's no official term for this so I can never tell if a text editor has it. Years ago this used to be called "hippie expand", but I can't figure out a more modern name that is used. Does anyone know what Visual Studio Code calls…
Whenever I try a new text editor, I run into a problem: I absolutely love the feature where it auto-completes based on other words in open windows (or other files in the open project). But there's no official term for this so I can never tell if a text editor has it. Years ago this used to be called "hippie expand", but I can't figure out a more modern name that is used. Does anyone know what Visual Studio Code calls…
Visual Studio Code is currently my favorite editor. Fast, informative intellisense, great debugging environment, good git integration, faster than Atom, etc.
Great work on the integrated terminal. I'be been waiting for this. Might even fire up Windows 10 with Ubuntu shell and see how everything works together.
If you're curious, the integrated terminal is actually xterm.js behind the scenes: https://github.com/sourcelair/xterm.js
This works well enough in practice, but it relies on a few strange hacks. For example, it writes a marker into the console's backbuffer to detect window scrolling, and it enables mark-mode in the hidden conhost window to "freeze" it while it queries for changes. Also, it's not very robust to changes in the console implementation, so it broke for a little while due to the console changes in Windows 10 (though this was fixed quickly.)
Because of this, it's strange to see Microsoft using it in an official product. I'd love to see them add a proper pseudoterminal (pseudoconsole?) API to Windows 10. There is clearly a need for it.
Whenever I try a new text editor, I run into a problem: I absolutely love the feature where it auto-completes based on other words in open windows (or other files in the open project). But there's no official term for this so I can never tell if a text editor has it. Years ago this used to be called "hippie expand", but I can't figure out a more modern name that is used. Does anyone know what Visual Studio Code calls…
Whenever I try a new text editor, I run into a problem: I absolutely love the feature where it auto-completes based on other words in open windows (or other files in the open project). But there's no official term for this so I can never tell if a text editor has it. Years ago this used to be called "hippie expand", but I can't figure out a more modern name that is used. Does anyone know what Visual Studio Code calls…
You mean you have a text editor that knows what words are on the page in a CHROME tab (for example) Or you mean, that if you've got 2 text files open as tabs in the same VSCODE window typing in 1 tab will auto-complete with words from the 2nd tab? Where have you seen this feature as it sounds AMAZING!
Whenever I try a new text editor, I run into a problem: I absolutely love the feature where it auto-completes based on other words in open windows (or other files in the open project). But there's no official term for this so I can never tell if a text editor has it. Years ago this used to be called "hippie expand", but I can't figure out a more modern name that is used. Does anyone know what Visual Studio Code calls…
You mean you have a text editor that knows what words are on the page in a CHROME tab (for example) Or you mean, that if you've got 2 text files open as tabs in the same VSCODE window typing in 1 tab will auto-complete with words from the 2nd tab? Where have you seen this feature as it sounds AMAZING!
Whenever I try a new text editor, I run into a problem: I absolutely love the feature where it auto-completes based on other words in open windows (or other files in the open project). But there's no official term for this so I can never tell if a text editor has it. Years ago this used to be called "hippie expand", but I can't figure out a more modern name that is used. Does anyone know what Visual Studio Code calls…
Intellisense? Autocomplete?
Visual Studio Code is currently my favorite editor. Fast, informative intellisense, great debugging environment, good git integration, faster than Atom, etc.
I love the git integration so much that when I'm preparing to commit on a visual studio (proper) project I'll type `CODE .` in powershell or the package manager console to inspect and edit my code before pushing.
Been very happy with VS Code, though I wish I could revert to pre-tabs file behavior, I'd like the space back... it took getting used to, but the list switcher was a better UX imho.