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Post by tuankiet65 »

josephg wrote: post #199
yreg wrote: post #146

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>The latency on every keypress is grating. May I ask what computer are you using? I would say VS Code runs 'buttery smooth' on my macs. Is this a case of me having no idea of what I'm missing?

It might also matter what languages the poster is using. Programming typescript in vscode is a peerless experience. But writing C and Rust feel much worse - I get 200+ ms latency navigating around and typing sometimes, and cmd+click navigation gets janky and breaks very regularly in both of those languages. I assume the culprit is half baked language extensions. I love vscode for typescript but I’d happily switch whi…

Man, and I'm here thinking it's just my VSCode that's super slow and sluggish while editing C++ code. I switch to Clion and it's surprisingly more responsive than VSCode, given Clion is a whole IDE in itself.

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Post by mmm_grayons »

cassepipe wrote: post #214
tym0 wrote: post #118

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inoremap kj

Wow, ok, never thought of that as a possible hack. Relying on the fact you won't ever use the kj combination. I'll keep that in the back of my head thanks.

I do the same (but with jj) and it's much better than escape. I do it with a bunch of symbols as well; e.g. years back when I was doing logic I'd use vim to take notes and bound AA to ∀.

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Post by finnh »

dcow wrote: post #215
bkanber wrote: post #194

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This was the first thing I looked for too. Perhaps one is planned or perhaps they're counting on the community to write one using their API. TBH the only feature I truly use JetBrains for is their Cmd+Click to jump to definition, otherwise I'd be happy sticking with tmux+vim as IDE (as I did for about a decade).

VIM can do this with a language server plugin now. It’s super refreshing to have compiler errors and symbol navigation inside native vim. Come back!

any pointers? i'd love to upgrade my beloved VIM from ctags-era navigation, but don't have time to shave the whole yak. Would love to hear your tips.

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Post by ryanSrich »

TheGallopedHigh wrote: post #198
ryanSrich wrote: post #189

Ah yes. Nova, the team that sent me the most pompous “rejection email” I’ve ever had for a product. “You weren’t randomly chosen for the Nova Private beta” “After six months, our Nova Private Beta is gradually drawing to a close. Unfortunately, we had far more people apply to test than we could reasonably accept as testers. We’re sorry to report that you were not randomly chosen for testing this time.”

How is that pompous? Seems rather straight forward to be honest.

A rejection email for a product that's positioned like I just got turned down for a job? How is that not pompous?

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Post by M4v3R »

reaperducer wrote: post #206
thamer wrote: post #163

Looks pretty, but is there really no Vim extension? I couldn't find one on the Extensions page. This is a deal-breaker for me, I can't use an editor or IDE without Vim bindings, this would kill my productivity. Is one planned, maybe?

I can't use an editor or IDE without Vim bindings Maybe this part will help: "We have easily customizable key bindings" I don't know if they can be customized to match Vim, but it might be too soon to write Nova off.

Vim support is more than just key bindings. The most powerful thing about Vim is that it’s modal, ie. you have several editing modes - insert, normal, replace, visual, all with their own set of commands.

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Post by connor4312 »

gorbypark wrote: post #211
paxys wrote: post #89

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> and in particular VS Code can’t compete because of it’s business model. What do you mean by that? If there was real demand for it, creating an iPad distribution for VS Code probably wouldn't be that difficult. It already runs great fully in a web browser.

VS Code is built with Electron, so making an iPad VSCode would require porting Electron to Safari (Apple doesn’t allow alternative browser engines on iOS) . That should be doable seeing as the VSCode ports to the web seem to work okayish on Safari, but it world be a pretty big undertaking.

Codespaces works on iPad already https://github.com/features/codespaces

It was a big undertaking :)

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Post by [deleted] »

mongol wrote: post #174
mattdeboard wrote: post #113

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I used Emacs for 10 years. When I started writing JS almost exclusively at my current job, I switched finally to VSCode (albeit with emacs keybindings). The plugin/extension experience between emacs and vscode is, of course, almost an apples to oranges comparison. But VSCode is much better in that regard in my opinion. I want yak-free IDE. After ten years my Emacs config is a herd of beautifully shaved yaks. VSCode i…

What does yak refer to? Is it a reference to gnu?

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Post by bkanber »

mmm_grayons wrote: post #212
bkanber wrote: post #194

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This was the first thing I looked for too. Perhaps one is planned or perhaps they're counting on the community to write one using their API. TBH the only feature I truly use JetBrains for is their Cmd+Click to jump to definition, otherwise I'd be happy sticking with tmux+vim as IDE (as I did for about a decade).

Wouldn't g ctrl+] work for jumping to definition with a tags file?

ctags (which is the way I used to do it) was always sort of hit or miss for me. JetBrains OTOH just works. Apparently there's a new way of doing it though, which I should look into.

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Post by hu3 »

FullyFunctional wrote: post #99
spiralganglion wrote: post #73

I see a lot of folks here comparing this to VS Code and asking "Why would I use this instead?" — I am exactly on the opposite side of that equation. Why would I use VS Code when I can use this? I've been using Atom for most of the decade (plus a bit of Sublime, and TextMate before), and I've loved being able to hack it to look and feel exactly how I want. There's a ton of custom CSS in my setup. Now, Atom is slow. Th…

I change platforms many times a day (macOS, Linux, occasionally Windows) and VS Code being cross platform is essential for my use of it. Being Mac-only is a complete deal-breaker.

I've been testing cloud-hosted VS Code (Codespaces) for the portability between platforms and I'm liking it so far.

There are certainly drawbacks but running everything on the cloud allows me to code on a lightweight machine like MacBook Air or Microsoft Surface with extended battery life regardless of the workload. It also keeps the machine cool and silent.

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