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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 zerr »

lucastheisen wrote: post #163
zerr wrote: post #98

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Why would you use VS Code (even with vim keybindings) over vim? Is there something you can't do in vim but can in VS Code?

I have as yet been unable to get the code completion working. Were you able to?

No, I don't use vim or any similar arcane editor. When I hear someone is happy e.g. with vim, and then I see how they use it (e.g. you can see screencasts from Golang team on youtube) - they just use it as a vanilla plain text editor, slightly better (or worse?) than Notepad.exe. Maybe basic syntax coloring, and that's it, nothing more...

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by billrobertson42 »

pjmlp wrote: post #75
aviraldg wrote: post #62

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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!)

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.

That's been true for a long time.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by big_paps »

aviraldg wrote: post #62
msoad wrote: post #32

VSCode + TypeScript is an amazing experience for us poor JavaScript developers that never enjoyed proper autocomplete and refactoring in our editors. Writing JavaScript feels like writing random bash scripts with no help now. TypeScript is freaking awesome and you should start using it! :)

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!)

This is simply not true. Beside Webstorm is a very good IDE, its much more precise with Typescript.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by nixos »

Karnickel wrote: post #223
nixos wrote: post #169

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That's one of my big gripes with IntelliJ - _please_ use standard compiling/building tools. At least use bash/batch files. I want to be able to build my projects if I ever decide that I don't need it anymore

I don't understand this comment. How are the build tools Jetbrain's fault? Confused...

I create a project. There are two things they could do:

1. Make an ant/maven/gradle repo, and have the build command run gradle build or something.

2. Create a commandline (open source) tool called "intellibuild" or something, which reads the project files and does whatever the "build" button does.

Unfortunately, they don't do either, so if I don't have a license (or I want to give my code to others who don't use IntelliJ), my J2EE is not buildable.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by alfanick »

ashwinne wrote: post #157
alfanick wrote: post #37

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Thanks from a user ;) I cannot use any editor without vim keybindings, furthermore I love "relativenumber", however VSCode gives no API for relative numbers (there is some hacky gutter images extension, but it is really hacky, slow and bad looking). I've made a fork with relative numbers built-in https://github.com/alfanick/vscode . Not going to do pull request, at least not yet - unit testing and i18n required. BTW…

I find relative number very useful to jump lines. Please consider showing current line number for current line. And go ahead with the pull request, many of us need this feature :)

that's exactly what I implemented, yup I will make a pull request soon

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by [deleted] »

ashwinne wrote: post #157
alfanick wrote: post #37

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Thanks from a user ;) I cannot use any editor without vim keybindings, furthermore I love "relativenumber", however VSCode gives no API for relative numbers (there is some hacky gutter images extension, but it is really hacky, slow and bad looking). I've made a fork with relative numbers built-in https://github.com/alfanick/vscode . Not going to do pull request, at least not yet - unit testing and i18n required. BTW…

I find relative number very useful to jump lines. Please consider showing current line number for current line. And go ahead with the pull request, many of us need this feature :)

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Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by m-zuber »

cyberferret wrote: post #66
spleeder wrote: post #10

I love how VS Code has no problem working with large and even minified files (unlike some other “modern” editors). Every update is just icing on the cake. Keep up the good work!

I had to tweak a minified CSS file for a client project the other day, and granted, VS Code opened the file faster and auto wrapped the output (Atom took a while and showed the file as one long 70000 character single line). However, I noted that VS Code lost all syntax highlighting and displayed everything as a uniform grey text, making it harder to find what I was looking for. Atom retained the CSS syntax highlighti…

What was the language mode set to? Look at the bottom right, or use ctrl + k, m to open the dialog.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by alexkavon »

Touche wrote: post #20
alexkavon wrote: post #7

I find it interesting that this software isn't designed with Xamarin for all platforms, but instead uses Electron. I mean I get it, the cross platform libraries are better in Electron, but it side steps their current cross platform initiative.

Xamarin doesn't support the platform the editor was originally written for: the web.

Sorry, how does Xamarin not support this?
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