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Has anyone figured out how to edit files directly from a remote directory over ssh/ftp?
It's a simple package, but it works very well.
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I use it for most of my C++ projects, and it almost does a better job than Visual Studio itself.
I meant the suggested addons on that page, not VS Code per se. I'm also using it as my main editor on my Windows box at home where don't do serious development. My only real annoyance is that I seem to run into multiple addons that can't be properly installed for one reason or another and sometimes "Ignore this" doesn't work and then the popup gets stuck and you can't see the top three lines... Apart from that it's b…
The newest version has smaller popups on the bottom-right of the window, and that was a nice surprise for me.
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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.
Can you explain the exact scenario you use it in, I honestly can't think of a scenario where insert is useful.
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I keep hearing good things about VSCode. If I weren't essentially married to emacs I'd definitely try it out. I'm not sure I'd recommend emacs to everyone at this point, though I think it remains a really solid choice of editor/OS for people willing to get over the learning curve and put up with a bit of clunkiness. Re the git stuff though- one place that I'm pretty sure emacs is the uncontested champ is in git integ…
I started playing with emacs 24 years ago, then spent 20 years as a devoted vim user with a two year work-enforced gap in Eclipse. I tried spacemacs in evil mode about four years back and stayed for magit. I tried VSCode a few weeks ago to see what the fuss was about and had my Eclipse PTSD triggered. Magit, mu4e, elfeed, eww, multiterm, restclient.el, tramp, [edit]org-mode![/edit], the list of replacements for bloat…
Evil-mode solves that, and just as magit is better than git evil-mode seems, to me, better than vi. Emacs is better than ever (though you do need to use auto-formatting for languages like JS that change a lot- there is no emacs mode that has kept up with ES whatever. Luckily emacs makes it easy to use formatters like prettier on a per-buffer basis.)
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Speed. Sublime and Vim still have quite a considerable lead on VS Code for example (even if VS Code is much better than Atom).
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.
Vim has a pretty huge community of plugins, and with NeoVim that plugin development has greatly accelerated. Intero, Fireplace, Vim FSharp (which works on regular Vim as well), and NeoComplete are excellent, and make NeoVim competitive with a lot of IDEs in my mind.
Part of the reason I don't use VS Code is that I really don't feel the need to run an instance of Chrome just to edit text. On my Mac, after loading a relatively large FSharp file, with FSAutocomplete (which is not known to be particularly efficient software), in NeoVim, it's taking so little CPU on the NVim side that it doesn't even register in Activity Monitor or `ps`. The same file loaded in latest version of VS Code (downloaded about thirty minutes ago) with the Ionide plugin is taking about 8% of the total CPU power.
With computers as powerful and wonderful as they are nowadays, I think you could make a solid argument of "Who the hell cares?", but in my mind, we have been editing text with full screen editors since the 80s, and had interactive IDEs since the 90s. If we could do this efficiently since the 90's, why should we opt for an inefficient solution now, especially if the efficient solutions are competitive?
Again, I'm saying this out of love. I use VS Code or Atom occasionally when I want to edit Markdown or HTML, and I think they are solid editors, especially considering that they are free. I understand that they are there to more to offer an open source and competitive solution to something like Sublime Text, and not to win-over the command-line-editor crowd, and at that I think they succeed. I just wish that an efficient framework like Qt, which has JS support, had caught on instead, since I think it would be a lot more efficient.
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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 don't know how people program without this feature You must do some kind of programming I've not encountered in my many years. While my editor of choice can do this, I would have no idea how, because a feature like "increment duplicates" is needed so infrequently that I would never remember the shortcut.
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I keep hearing good things about VSCode. If I weren't essentially married to emacs I'd definitely try it out. I'm not sure I'd recommend emacs to everyone at this point, though I think it remains a really solid choice of editor/OS for people willing to get over the learning curve and put up with a bit of clunkiness. Re the git stuff though- one place that I'm pretty sure emacs is the uncontested champ is in git integ…
I started playing with emacs 24 years ago, then spent 20 years as a devoted vim user with a two year work-enforced gap in Eclipse. I tried spacemacs in evil mode about four years back and stayed for magit. I tried VSCode a few weeks ago to see what the fuss was about and had my Eclipse PTSD triggered. Magit, mu4e, elfeed, eww, multiterm, restclient.el, tramp, [edit]org-mode![/edit], the list of replacements for bloat…
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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.
But "keystroke" is a very strange metric. In terms of speed, it's often much faster to just ctrl+a and rewrite it from scratch. The mental gymnastic in trying to compute in your head the difference of characters is definitely non-trivial. It only really works if the thing you're replacing has the exact same number of characters in it. Can you explain the exact scenario you use it in, I honestly can't think of a scena…
It’s hard to come up with exact examples because it’s actually subconscious and as automatic as touch typing for me. Thinking back, when I’m on one line with the cursor maybe halfway through, I’ll hit down arrow, alt arrow to the word I want to rename, hit insert, type over it, hit insert. I think I did it when trying to clarify some documentation. I’ll be on the lookout in the near future, but unlikely to report back here unless it happens to happen really soon.
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…