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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 chungy »

Rapzid wrote: post #15
Achshar wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Never used atom, I use sublime. Also can't find any extension named sshfs. I don't want to install another FTP program and then open it up every time I want to make a change.

sshfs is a utility that allows you to mount a remote directory locally over an SSH connection.

There's also CurlFtpFS (or GVFS's FTP support) that mounts regular FTP. There really isn't a good reason a text editor should implement remote file protocols themselves. Let it be handled at a lower-level!

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.6

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Post by nikbackm »

happy-go-lucky wrote: post #118
dyu- wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"As much as I wouldn't have believed this 10 years ago, Microsoft does open source better than almost everyone." This. They are treating vscode like its a core (cash cow) product. I'd say google embraced/adopted open source early on and now microsoft is playing catchup while now becoming one of the very best to do it.

I see Microsoft's open source efforts as a means to an end.

As opposed to all other companies that do open source for purely altruistic reasons?

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.6

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Post by taneq »

happy-go-lucky wrote: post #118
dyu- wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"As much as I wouldn't have believed this 10 years ago, Microsoft does open source better than almost everyone." This. They are treating vscode like its a core (cash cow) product. I'd say google embraced/adopted open source early on and now microsoft is playing catchup while now becoming one of the very best to do it.

I see Microsoft's open source efforts as a means to an end.

Name one entity whose open source efforts are not a means to an end. Even OSS nuts like Stallman have their motivations (in his case, furthering his ideology).

That doesn't invalidate their contributions.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.6

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Post by joaomoreno »

usaphp wrote: post #111
rtpg wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's a good test: Do you want a text editor, or do you want something that's close to an IDE? Atom/VS Code exist to be IDE-y, not as thought experiments on text editors in the browser. Their advantages are in the ease of developing extensions and tools that aren't part of the core package. The difference is similar to Vim/Emacs. Of course Vim has some IDE-y plugins, but they're rarely as rich as what ends up gettin…

Choppy scrolling is a high price to pay for an IDE in my opinion.

Do you mind filling an issue on GitHub about the choppy scrolling? It should definitely not be choppy.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.6

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Post by kwood »

sorenjan wrote: post #72

If any of the VS Code developers are reading this, I have a few suggestions: When I open a single code file with VS Code, I'd like the workspace to automatically get populated with the other files in the same folder, or at least have a simple option to do so. I like that VS Code use the folder structure instead of a special project file like .sln, but this is a small annoyance since I often open single files before d…

> Make it easier to run Python code. I don't think there's an easy way to run my script and see the output in a terminal without filling in some json file? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

There are multiple extensions that run code without any setup for almost any language. I use https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=formulah...

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.6

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Post by nachtigall »

faceyspacey wrote: post #4
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.

debugging is the best I've ever experienced. Webstorm debugging was problematic for me a year and a half ago. Visual Code has surpassed Atom by far as well, which weirdly does NOT support client side debugging for javascript (and that's a major mistake on Atom's behalf). In VSCode debugging is of course provided by 3rd party packages, but their API and rich debugging GUI seems to make it extremely easy to hook into i…

Same here, but for Firefox (which I prefer for WebDev). Just switched to VSCode because it's the only editor[1] that has a working JS Debugger for it: https://github.com/hbenl/vscode-firefox-debug

[1] Though other editors might follow. Just saw that the Firefox Debugger team would be interested in integrating their new react/redux based debugger into Atom: https://twitter.com/clarkbw/status/783358566858010624

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.6

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Post by kwood »

Analemma_ wrote: post #96
Gee19 wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love so many thing about VSCode but multiple top-level folders is a necessity in order for me to use this as my daily editor. Microsoft pls

Use the UserVoice, Luke! It's the main way they get feedback and feature requests and they seem to really pay attention to it.

UserVoice is now deprecated[1], but they are perfectly fine with opening Github issues for feature requests.

[1]https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2016/08/19/goodbyeuservo...

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.6

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

jpdias wrote: post #46

I only miss a code minimap. It's my choice for code editor since its release, replacing Atom.

I've honestly never found a practical use for that. But then, most of my code files are either at most 2-3 pages long, or things like long .json files in which a minimap doesn't really help much.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.6

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Post by pvdebbe »

david-given wrote: post #21
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.

You use drag and drop of selections? I don't think I've ever done that on purpose --- every time I've ever dragged selected text has been by accident, followed by much cursing as I try to fix my mangled document. I'd turn it off system-wide if I could!

Likewise. And the support for DnD of text really hinders usability in tools like Google Docs. If you select a wrong piece of text, it would be so much nicer to just start selecting the correct piece instead of first clearing out the selection elsewhere to avoid triggering drag event.
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