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Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by JoshMnem »

Ninn wrote: post #138
bunderbunder wrote: post #127

In the spirit of cranky HN bikeshedding, I present: The page body, as seen by a NoScript user: Web developers: Please, you can do better than this.

Please know that no one really cares. You must realise you cannot expect to consume our applications but only on your own terms. Theres no contract saying you should ONLY serve HTML on the web.

In general, one should serve HTML on the web unless you're doing something that requires JavaScript. JS is a big security/privacy risk. At the moment, I keep JS and CSS off by default on my main browsing profile, overriding it with umatrix when a site requires it and it looks useful enough to bother.

Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by billfruit »

staticassertion wrote: post #23
coding123 wrote: post #4

My favorite is multi-selection mode. It's not the same as "Column Mode" you find in other IDEs but try it and you will never want another editor again: (Option)Alt-Cmd + Down or Up arrow key From there, you can use arrow keys as normal, but instead of controlling one carrot, you control all the ones you created. So if I use the shortcut key to move to the next word, they all do, same with end of line, or what have yo…

This exists in most editors I've used (intellij is alt + shift + click or double tap alt, if I recall). I don't know how people program without this feature - they should teach this shit in school. Multicursor is amazing. One thing it's been great for: I have code like: byte b1 = array[0]; And I want to do this for 16 bytes. Control + D to duplicate 15x. Double tap control, hit up 15 times - now there's a cursor at e…

I haven't tried this feature on VS Code, but isn't the record and replay macros feature in Emacs(normally bound to F3 and F4) a simpler(and more general, since seemingly it can record arbitrary text transformations) approach to achieve a similar effect?

Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by jesalg »

bunderbunder wrote: post #127

In the spirit of cranky HN bikeshedding, I present: The page body, as seen by a NoScript user: Web developers: Please, you can do better than this.

Yeah, this could be a static HTML/CSS site but that's the state of the modern web for better or worse. Markup rendered by a framework like React/Vue and bundled up with Webpack. It's just easier to build that way.

Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by jchw »

humanrebar wrote: post #84
jchw wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Not sure. When it comes to C++, I haven't used VS Code a ton. I think last I tried, it didn't really have much integration with my build configuration, and mostly I had to hand-configure the flags via VS Code configuration. Jetbrains CLion is probably advisable if you want good Intellisense on a large CMake project.

Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by JonathonW »

matthewmacleod wrote: post #9
coding123 wrote: post #4

My favorite is multi-selection mode. It's not the same as "Column Mode" you find in other IDEs but try it and you will never want another editor again: (Option)Alt-Cmd + Down or Up arrow key From there, you can use arrow keys as normal, but instead of controlling one carrot, you control all the ones you created. So if I use the shortcut key to move to the next word, they all do, same with end of line, or what have yo…

I'm not sure where this feature originated, but it's been a core feature of Sublime for as long as I've used it, and is also broadly available in other editors. Definitely not a VS Code-specific thing, though it's still great!

I doubt it's where it originated, but I was using multi-select/multi-caret editing in jEdit before Sublime came around.

That and arbitrary window splitting (split any pane horizontally or vertically) are two features I really miss when they're not present. The latter's surprisingly hard to find; Sublime and VS Code don't do it (Atom does).

Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by shrimpx »

JoshMnem wrote: post #151
Ninn wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please know that no one really cares. You must realise you cannot expect to consume our applications but only on your own terms. Theres no contract saying you should ONLY serve HTML on the web.

In general, one should serve HTML on the web unless you're doing something that requires JavaScript. JS is a big security/privacy risk. At the moment, I keep JS and CSS off by default on my main browsing profile, overriding it with umatrix when a site requires it and it looks useful enough to bother.

That's bezerk. You should turn off the CPU in your computer, too, and just use the screen and keyboard. The CPU is where all the security breaches happen.

Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by akerro »

scottmf wrote: post #61

Slightly off topic but this code in example #5: get() { return new Promise((resolve, reject) => { fetch(`${baseAPI}/heroes`) .then(response => response.json()) .then(json => resolve(json)) .catch(err => { reject (err); }); }); } Why not just: get() { return fetch(`${baseAPI}/heroes`) .then(response => response.json()); }

By the end of a day, he reports number of lines written and committed.

Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by bunderbunder »

allover wrote: post #136
bunderbunder wrote: post #127

In the spirit of cranky HN bikeshedding, I present: The page body, as seen by a NoScript user: Web developers: Please, you can do better than this.

The audience for this site is front-end developers. Front-end developers don't tend to view the web with NoScript. Just like 99% of users don't view the web with NoScript.

Is it just for front-end developers?

I'm a back-end developer, but, when I wanted to indent that HTML in order to post it, I switched over to the instance of vscode that I virtually always having running in order to use its pretty printer.

Re: VS Code can do that?

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Post by urlwolf »

coldtea wrote: post #128
marpstar wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sure, but would we even be here talking about VS Code if it had been written in those languages? Would the extension community have grown as quickly? Would Microsoft have continued investment in the product if it hadn't? I'm not saying that it wouldn't have been as successful, but we're here, now, and it is. It's a great product regardless of the fact that it's written with HTML/CSS/JS.

> sure, but would we even be here talking about VS Code if it had been written in those languages? Would the extension community have grown as quickly? Why not? Didn't hurt ST or TextMate much (though them being closed source did). And we still use Vim, written in C, 40+ years on, and it has tons of plugins... > Would Microsoft have continued investment in the product if it hadn't? MS developed Monaco for over a deca…

For something speedy, and as programmable as vim or emacs but in a sane language (lua), try textadept.
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