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Visual Studio Code 1.6

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Re: Visual Studio Code 1.6

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Post by dguaraglia »

Achshar wrote: post #8

What I find to be hilariously missing is drag & drop for the selected text. I tried switching to VS code a couple of days ago and realized I couldn't do such a basic thing. That and a decent FTP extension. No one wants to sync their entire project just to upload a single file. ugh.

Gotta say, I'm with the rest here in that I have never done that on purpose. When I'm in the editor, having to switch to the mouse for something as simple and cutting and pasting feels like such a drag. I didn't even know it was a common feature :|

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.6

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Post by jahewson »

buckbova wrote: post #2

Looks like this editor is constantly improving. Anyone have an opinion on how this editor compares to webstorm? Suppose I'll have to just give it a try to find out.

I've found vscode to be noticeably faster than webstorm and consume fewer system resources.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.6

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Post by hiou »

tomdale wrote: post #3

I have been using VS Code as my full-time editor for a few months now and couldn't be happier. Originally I was only using it for TypeScript projects, where the language integration is top-notch, but eventually found myself using it all the time. I use the vim plugin, which is surprisingly good although it does have a few issues still. The best thing about VS Code (and Microsoft's other big open source project, TypeS…

Is this like an advertisement? If not you should definitely looking into a possible side career writing advertising copy for developers.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.6

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Post by daeken »

JoelBennett wrote: post #44
daeken wrote: post #24

I've recently switched to VS Code full time for C# and Python development and I couldn't be happier. While I miss some of the more intelligent intellisense from full VS, I love that I can do all of my dev on OS X. Its integration with .NET Core makes my life easy; really can't complain at all.

I was curious to know how it worked for Python. I might have to give it a serious go...

I wish it did a bit more in the way of completing methods on objects (it sometimes will, but only in super clear-cut situations), but outside of that it's solid. Completely replaced Sublime for me, outside of the subl command line.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.6

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Post by stuartd »

SwellJoe wrote: post #22
Achshar wrote: post #8

What I find to be hilariously missing is drag & drop for the selected text. I tried switching to VS code a couple of days ago and realized I couldn't do such a basic thing. That and a decent FTP extension. No one wants to sync their entire project just to upload a single file. ugh.

I don't think I've ever dragged and dropped selected text in my entire life. I didn't even know that was a thing one could do in any editor. Does dragging and dropping move the text, like a cut/paste, or does it copy the text? When would you use that? Is it faster/easier to use the mouse for this than Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V (or y/p in vim)?

Ctrl-DragSelection (Windows) duplicates the dragged text without overwriting the clipboard text, which is sometimes handy. It's Alt-DragSelection on OSX.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.6

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Post by james-skemp »

SwellJoe wrote: post #22
Achshar wrote: post #8

What I find to be hilariously missing is drag & drop for the selected text. I tried switching to VS code a couple of days ago and realized I couldn't do such a basic thing. That and a decent FTP extension. No one wants to sync their entire project just to upload a single file. ugh.

I don't think I've ever dragged and dropped selected text in my entire life. I didn't even know that was a thing one could do in any editor. Does dragging and dropping move the text, like a cut/paste, or does it copy the text? When would you use that? Is it faster/easier to use the mouse for this than Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V (or y/p in vim)?

Depends upon the key combination. It's muscle memory since I discovered it, but I believe holding Ctrl will replicate a copy/paste, but otherwise a cut/paste.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.6

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Post by dvirsky »

mappu wrote: post #42
sethammons wrote: post #16

I switched from _years_ on sublime (paid) to vscode in a hot minute for Go development. Awesome jump to declaration and linting. There is one thing it has trouble with and that is auto-complete from within sub-packages. Not sure why yet.

I'm on LiteIDE for Go - have you tried it? If so, do you know how VS Code compares to it? I have a very multilingual project so i'm resigned to using multiple IDEs anyway (LiteIDE for Go, VS for C#, Qt Creator for C++/Qt, Eclipse PDT for PHP, Notepad++ for bash...)

Nothing beats LiteIDE's integration with the Go toolchain IMHO. However it's not a very good editor in other aspects. Plus it's so ugly it hurts my eyes.
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