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Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by newjersey »

kozikow wrote: post #92
pjmlp wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On this day and age many don't want to pay for tools. Sometimes I wonder if Emacs and Vi would be so appreciated if they were commercial as well, without any FOSS version available.

> On this day and age many don't want to pay for tools. Main part of pycharm is free and open source: https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2013/10/pycharm-3-0-commu... . > Sometimes I wonder if Emacs and Vi would be so appreciated if they were commercial as well, without any FOSS version available. One reason for multitude of emacs extensions is the open source nature. Average IntelliJ user is less likely to write exte…

I think a comparing intellij platform to eclipse makes more sense. Why is eclipse so unintuitive?

For example, why must I click ok after pushing a change to a remote git server? Shouldn't it be a toast?

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by j79 »

Just beating a dead horse here, but I really wish Microsoft would add "hot exit" for unsaved files. It's been in Sublime Text since 2011. Nearly all my Mac apps support this feature natively. Why, in 2016, if VS Code crashes, do I lose all my unsaved files. Especially when I want to treat an instance as merely a scratch pad for ideas.

Supposedly it's Under Review. Hopefully, the next release has it.

https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/293070-visual-stud...

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by JonnieCache »

plexicle wrote: post #14

Opening a newly cloned Chromium repository in ~3s is very impressive to be honest.

I was about to try one of these fancy new browser based editors again, but now I'm confused. Shouldn't opening a directory be O(1)? I just opened the chromium trunk in sublime and it took 0.2 seconds, regardless of whether it was currently running or not.

Why would one ever use a text editor that has perceptible latency when doing everyday tasks?

3 seconds isn't even latency, it's a freeze tbh.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by markcerqueira »

mirekrusin wrote: post #100
markcerqueira wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> On this day and age many don't want to pay for tools. Strange logic: if everyone followed that train of thought, we'd all settle for whatever quality tools are available so long as the price is $0. I'd much rather pay for a valuable tool than use a subpar free tool.

That's you. What about the other 7bn people?

I'm sure if you look, you'll find someone that has a differing opinion. This doesn't make one opinion more valid than the other.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by to3m »

benmarten wrote: post #105
to3m wrote: post #103

This package suffers from what I like to call the paper.pdf problem - very different files, rather uselessly (although not entirely illogically) given identical file names: ~/Downloads % md5 VSCode* MD5 (VSCode-darwin-stable(1).zip) = b33b479ffa87052d05ed0141e64ad8a8 MD5 (VSCode-darwin-stable.zip) = 86f129fe0d75c195370da4b46814389c ~/Downloads % ls -l VSCode*.zip -rw-r--r--@ 1 tom staff 49908098 8 Sep 23:04 VSCode-da…

what do you mean, can you explain? isn't that correct behavior if you rename the file?

In April I downloaded VSCode version 1.something, or whatever, and got VSCode-darwin-stable.zip. And now, today, I download VSCode version 1.5, and get... VSCode-darwin-stable.zip. Two files with the same name. Of course, Firefox renames them, so it's not like the older one got overwritten, but that extra little "(1)" isn't actually telling me much.

This made me think of all the times I've downloaded this or that paper from somebody's website, and I've ended up downloading a(nother) file called "paper.pdf"... though, just to annoy me, now that I actually try to make the point, at the moment my downloads folder has exactly 0 files called paper.pdf...

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by ralusek »

I love VS Code, but I'm getting a little disheartened after bringing this up almost every release. Is there a plan to improve the syntax highlighting? I know there are custom themes, etc, but they all seem to have the same elements available to them.

The JS syntax highlighting can't distinguish between properties and variables, or properties that are functions, or object literal keys. It's almost there, but it's lacking enough to actually be quite bothersome, with no progress so far that I can tell.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by labrador »

markcerqueira wrote: post #93
pjmlp wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On this day and age many don't want to pay for tools. Sometimes I wonder if Emacs and Vi would be so appreciated if they were commercial as well, without any FOSS version available.

> On this day and age many don't want to pay for tools. Strange logic: if everyone followed that train of thought, we'd all settle for whatever quality tools are available so long as the price is $0. I'd much rather pay for a valuable tool than use a subpar free tool.

It's a common fallacy to associate quality with price. Generally yes, but not always. Sublime Text certainly isn't 70 dollars better than Atom or VS Code.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by labrador »

mixedCase wrote: post #68
aviraldg wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try WebStorm. I'm surprised at how few people use it, given the quality of the autocomplete and code assistance (and the fact that it works just as well with ES6 as it does with TypeScript!)

VSCode is open source software. WebStorm isn't. I love JetBrains IDEs but I sure as hell prefer using tools that I can fix or modify myself.

I had one of those aha moments last week. I started to write to complain to Microsoft that VSCode didn't remember my previous searches when I remembered that I could just hack it in myself, which I did. Most programmers like me like that kind of control.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by biot »

ralusek wrote: post #126

I love VS Code, but I'm getting a little disheartened after bringing this up almost every release. Is there a plan to improve the syntax highlighting? I know there are custom themes, etc, but they all seem to have the same elements available to them. The JS syntax highlighting can't distinguish between properties and variables, or properties that are functions, or object literal keys. It's almost there, but it's lack…

It's open source. Make the change and use it yourself, then submit as a pull request. [edit: link removed; see Tyriar's reply for correct repo]
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