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Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7

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Post by Diti »

tjohns wrote: post #129
sxg wrote: post #54

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What about the Surface Book?

Regarding Linux... the Surface Book (and Pro) are rather unique devices, as far as hardware is concerned. You loose a lot of core functionality if you run anything except Windows on them. I've tried. If you want a strictly Windows-only device, they're not bad. (Buggy drivers aside.) The N-trig stylus technology is absolutely amazing if you do graphic design. But if you want to dual boot into Linux, you'll be happier…

If you do graphic design, you may not want N-trig styluses. The biggest drawback of their system is that it requires a certain, higher amount of pressure to register a stroke—higher than the Wacom or Apple Stylus counterparts.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/3ttia5/sp4_pen_not... and how people seemed considerably more happy with the Wacom technology in the Surface 1, than the N-trig with the latter iterations of Surface tablets.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7

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Post by Matthias247 »

sxg wrote: post #54
komali2 wrote: post #40

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The biggest thing for me has been the consistency. They already had an amazing IDE (Visual Studio), then they buckled down and made an amazing paired-down version (VSCode). It works well, does all the things I'd want and then some. Compare to Google releasing a chat client / message handler (google voice app), another one (hangouts), taking away functionality (removing shared sms/hangouts convos), then releasing two…

What about the Surface Book?

Tried that this week in a shop after the week Apple announcement. I think although it's very cool as a laptop it didn't beat the old Macbooks for me: Downsides were the thick & heavy screen which made it a little bit unbalanced and also shaky while typing on it. Besides that a touchpad which felt worse than what Apple has (although better than what most other Windows laptops have) and a cheaper looking finish (surface/painting looked more plastic like than the aluminum surface of the macbook). As an upside it had a really great keyboard, which might not be the case for the 2016 Apple models.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7

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Post by headmelted »

I'm currently working on nightly builds for ARM and Intel linux-based systems (including Raspberry Pi and [Chromebook, Android] I could really use one or more Raspberry Pi 2/3 testers on a Debian distro (ideally Raspbian) for early feedback.

Hoping to announce the project on HN properly myself when it's ready (it's a very early state, although extensions are working), so I'd ask for discretion of whoever feels like helping me out.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7

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Post by headmelted »

nixos wrote: post #29

The one unfortunate thing about it is that it doesn't work/isn't packaged for Raspberry Pi. I don't understand why they don't make a package for the pi, if it's a JS app anyways

From above, but:

I'm currently working on nightlies for ARM and Intel linux-based systems (including Raspberry Pi and [Chromebook, Android] I could really use one or more Raspberry Pi 2/3 testers on a Debian distro (ideally Raspbian) for early feedback.

Hoping to announce the project on HN properly myself when it's ready (it's a very early state, although extensions are working), so I'd ask for discretion of whoever feels like helping me out.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7

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Post by eyko »

james-mcelwain wrote: post #97
barrkel wrote: post #94

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Hmm. Emacs' indentation is one of the things I've had to fight hardest. It's extremely opinionated, and it's almost always wrong for each new language I teach it about, and it took a lot of convincing to indent C and Java the way I want. The way it defaulted to using smart fill (i.e. use indent div 8 tabs followed by indent mod 8 spaces), so that indentation had this mix of indent and spaces, gah. It's bad enough tha…

I use Emacs for languages I work continuously in and have strong (or am forming) opinions about. Willing to invest 1-2 hrs configuring. Save it in a git repo. Not everyone share's preferences (tabs, spaces, etc.) across languages. Maybe I'm crazy but I use 2 vs 4 in different languages. If I'm just trying a language out for the first time, I find it much easier to use vscode + vim plugin + language plugin to try some…

But then you have to update your settings every time you collaborate on a different project with different opinions about indenting. The right way would be for emacs to simply respect the project's .editorconfig file like any other editor does, but I can't for the life of me make emacs open JavaScript files and set up indentation properly with editorconfig. It totally defeats the purpose...

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7

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Post by saltycraig »

Philipp__ wrote: post #64
divbit wrote: post #27

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>But you know, I can't hang Emacs and Vim on the wall and leave them there. I never got the hang of Emacs, but there is a decent vim extension (there are a bunch) called vimStyle which at least gets you the vim-like code navigation.

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…

Pretty much the same story here. Used Vim for years and even read a couple of the books out there on it, but I was always running into annoying little issues that drove to me to try Emacs. I stuck with Emacs for probably 2 months and ran back to Vim because I just didn't dive into it (learning elisp is crucial!). Fast forward maybe a year and I was ready to give Emacs another try. Once I overcame the initial hump, I was sold on Emacs. I still enjoy the Vi/m keybindings and use them in Firefox or the odd time I use Sublime. I haven't found anything close in Emacs to the concept of word-objects like in Vim: nothing beats the ease of doing "ci(", but I'll live without it.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7

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Post by saltycraig »

Philipp__ wrote: post #89
Scarbutt wrote: post #74

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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 produ…

Using Helm is a joy, you will be able to find commands much easier than the vanilla Emacs completion system. Give it a try, I consider it essential now, and the fuzzy matching saves me daily.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7

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Post by overcast »

lenkite wrote: post #159
overcast wrote: post #65

Dear Microsoft, PLEASE native SFTP sync support. I will switch from Sublime permanently.

Why can't you use rsync ? Curious on the use case for this if you don't mind elaborating.

I can use rsync, I'd rather it all integrated. I don't think this is a big request here, as every other editor has at least a functional plugin for this.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7

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Post by b33pr »

johnfn wrote: post #75
addicted wrote: post #32

I love using VIM to edit, but stuff like the following makes it hard for me to resist switching. "ATA makes typings files almost invisible. A TypeScript language server that has ATA enabled watches your package.json files and automatically installs the typings files of all dependencies in a cache on your file system. It does the same when it finds references to well known client-side libraries. When you then invoke I…

Hey, I'm one of the developers of VSCodeVim, and I'd encourage you to try out our extension and see how it works for you. You could get the best of both worlds! :)

Vscode + vim is a great combo
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