VS Code can do that? • Hacker News Board

Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by nickjj » Sat, Apr 21, 2018, 4:42 PM UTC

0x6c6f6c wrote: post #75

nickjj wrote: post #55

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I recently discovered a vscode extension literally called "Insert Cursor at Beginning of Each Line Selected". Super handy when you want multiple cursors to line up at the start of every line (by default vscode will wrap the cursor around to the end of the longer lines if you try to move around with the arrow keys). There's about 20 other extensions I routinely use, which I documented at https://nickjanetakis.com/blog…

What's this do differently from just pressing Home with multicursors?

> What's this do differently from just pressing Home with multicursors?

Pressing home doesn't always put you at the true beginning of the line. It will put you at the first non-whitespace character.

Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by donttrack » Sat, Apr 21, 2018, 4:42 PM UTC

Dinux wrote: post #20

wink wrote: post #18

Really nice idea, but 90% focused on Web (frontend?) development. HTML, JS, and not much else. :( Still found 2 useful things for me, Parens colorizer and settings sync via Github Gist.

I use it for most of my C++ projects, and it almost does a better job than Visual Studio itself.

I am interested in the 'almost' part. What are you missing?

Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by orf » Sat, Apr 21, 2018, 4:43 PM UTC

shawnz wrote: post #58

macinjosh wrote: post #44

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I don't think a machine with just 4GB of RAM can be considered a 'workstation'.

Ouch! It's not much, but it's mine.

Are you running Windows? Could put *nix on it, reduce the amount of crap running in the background and pick a low-memory shell?

Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by humanrebar » Sat, Apr 21, 2018, 4:43 PM UTC

jchw wrote: post #26

wink wrote: post #18

Really nice idea, but 90% focused on Web (frontend?) development. HTML, JS, and not much else. :( Still found 2 useful things for me, Parens colorizer and settings sync via Github Gist.

They should really add some more non-web stuff to broaden the horizons. It's awesome with Rust, Go, even C++.

How is the support for cmake?

Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by orf » Sat, Apr 21, 2018, 4:44 PM UTC

shawnz wrote: post #57

rp1229 wrote: post #16

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What is your workflow like that a few second delay is a major blocker? I used to feel the same way early in my career. Now I don’t feel the need to be in a rush all the time.

It's not so much a professional issue as a personal one. When I get an idea and want to start taking some notes, a 10 second delay is more than enough time for me to get side-tracked by the details. So I skip VS code and open notepad instead, in the interest of getting the idea out as soon as possible. And as the complexity of the project starts to increase to the point where VS code's more advanced functionality mig…

Do you mean notepad++, or just notepad?

Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Apr 21, 2018, 4:48 PM UTC

wink wrote: post #18

Really nice idea, but 90% focused on Web (frontend?) development. HTML, JS, and not much else. :( Still found 2 useful things for me, Parens colorizer and settings sync via Github Gist.

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Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by joemaller1 » Sat, Apr 21, 2018, 4:50 PM UTC

vjeux wrote: post #45

So honored to see Prettier being the #3 tip!

You earned it

Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by shawnz » Sat, Apr 21, 2018, 4:50 PM UTC

orf wrote: post #83

shawnz wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ouch! It's not much, but it's mine.

Are you running Windows? Could put *nix on it, reduce the amount of crap running in the background and pick a low-memory shell?

The biggest consumer of RAM for me is chrome, not windows, and it is basically essential to my development process to have it open all the time. So I worry an OS change would not produce an appreciable enough performance improvement to justify changing my whole workflow over.

Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by prepend » Sat, Apr 21, 2018, 4:53 PM UTC

SquareWheel wrote: post #35

devbug wrote: post #15

And yet it still doesn't respect the Insert key. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=adammara...

People actually use "work deletion mode" on purpose? I've always wished this key at least had an LED indicator along with Caps Lock.

I do maybe 10% of the time as it saves a few keystrokes if you are renaming stuff. I would be annoyed if it went away. But definitely not as useful as it was 40 years ago.

Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by prepend » Sat, Apr 21, 2018, 4:56 PM UTC

Is there a way to have intellisense sense work with python dictionaries? It seems like intellisense for json would be a similar issue as nested dictionary representations in json, but I can’t find anything that does this and don’t want to use another class just for faster coding.