Microsoft and TypeScript team are doing amazing work with this editor! There are so many interesting features in it, gave it a shot few weeks ago and was really satisfied. And it is probably the first electron app that didn't feel like rest of the bunch, that are pretty much hogs and not very responsive (especially when we talk about editors and IDEs). But you know, I can't hang Emacs and Vim on the wall and leave th…
what would something 10x better than vim/emacs/vscode look like ?
Microsoft and TypeScript team are doing amazing work with this editor! There are so many interesting features in it, gave it a shot few weeks ago and was really satisfied. And it is probably the first electron app that didn't feel like rest of the bunch, that are pretty much hogs and not very responsive (especially when we talk about editors and IDEs). But you know, I can't hang Emacs and Vim on the wall and leave th…
what would something 10x better than vim/emacs/vscode look like ?
Isn't there a point of diminishing returns there? Also, isn't that a bit subjective? I'm glad VS Code exists, because it helps push other projects to be better.
I had really hard time for 3 months (after using vim for 4 years). I just uninstalled everything else, and first week was painful, but it was really fun since I wanted to learn Lisp/Scheme, so I touched ELisp while playing/tweaking with emacs. After that I just couldn't go back to Vim. I started tweaking and digging. The point of Emacs is that you can make it be whatever you want. It can be both amazingly ugly and be…
Since you used vim for 4 years, why didn't you add evil to emacs?
I've tried it, but I'm not as big a fan of the UX, so I'm sticking with Atom. Also, Atom is easier to customize to your liking, I've already written custom commands for it and modified the CSS. Also themes are lacking in VS Code. What I would like to see is Atom embracing the IDE to the same level VS Code is doing. If Atom had a proper debugger UX that all language could use, and better auto-complete. Those are the o…
Thing I like the most about Atom is it's integration with Github for plugins, and even issues for those plugins. Last week there was a bug introduced in the latest build impacting split pane diff, error came up, with a link "Click here to submit an issue". I clicked it, and instead of taking me to a submission form, it intelligently took me to an issue already made and being discussed.
I'm very impressed with it as an editor (so impressed it got me to divorce Sublime), but I am curious to give VSS a whirl on of these days.
Ah, Thanks - I see now the shortcut is [Alt-click] as opposed to [Cmd-click] in the other two editors. I just didn't dig around enough to find the right key combination. But I guess this shows how ingrained muscle memory and habits are hard to change, and why certain editors remain people's favourites.
Be warned though... this is one area where vscode is noticeably worse than atom or sublime; There's no alt-click-drag support so making a rectangular edit is much more work; you manually create the correct selection on each line. It's one of the few things I miss from Atom (and one of the main reasons I switched to textmate way way back).
alt+shift+click-drag mate. Drag a rectangle and hit an arrow key seems fastest to make a column.
Dear Microsoft, PLEASE native SFTP sync support. I will switch from Sublime permanently.
Why not use some tool for that and decouple it from your editor requirements? I leave a gulp task running when I have to use ftp work to just mirror my git branch https://www.npmjs.com/package/vinyl-ftp
I had really hard time for 3 months (after using vim for 4 years). I just uninstalled everything else, and first week was painful, but it was really fun since I wanted to learn Lisp/Scheme, so I touched ELisp while playing/tweaking with emacs. After that I just couldn't go back to Vim. I started tweaking and digging. The point of Emacs is that you can make it be whatever you want. It can be both amazingly ugly and be…
Since you used vim for 4 years, why didn't you add evil to emacs?
Good question. I dare to say EVIL is best Vim alternative. It's 98% percent there. But it felt wrong using Vim in Emacs. Then I wasn't using Vim nor Emacs, because I would mix commands from both (sometimes I would use C-s sometimes /?). So I told myself, if I felt comfortable using Vim, then why don't I try and learn Emacs so I can be comfortable in it too? And now after 6 months in Emacs I got to that standard productivity point in terms of navigating and chunking out the code. But the best aspect of Emacs for me personaly is, I want to do something with text, I just select it, press M-x, enter the word(noun,verb of thing I want to do with it) press TAB, see list of available commands and voila! It amazes me how many options there are in Emacs! Wonderful really!
I still prefer using the free edition of VS2015. Maybe too stuck in my ways.
I have no idea why anyone would prefer VS Code for C++ or C#/.NET work on Windows. For everything else, Visual Studio has never been particularly great.