So cool! How did I miss this?! I’ve been looking for something like this for a while now. Github has been coming out some really great features but sometimes you have no idea they are even available.
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#282There's also github1s.com and github2s.com - on any github page just add 1s or 2s to the URL
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#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really? I swapped to PyCharm when I was a solo dev because it had superior code insight compared to the other editors. What is enterprise about it beyond it costing money?
Yea that’s a weird flex, I get some companies have “use these tools” but that’s largely for support and discounts
Wait, wha? I worked for myself and it was busy time. I'd spent almost as much on other IDEs as PyCharm. Not a flex. When I flex, the Hulkamaniacs go wild and everyone takes their vitamins and says their prayers. WTF is a flex about buying software?
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#284This is more than a little ironic, because if I remember correctly, Github created the open source Atom editor, which was gaining popularity until VS Code came into the picture and absolutely destroyed it.
Not without reason, it was all part of M$ofts plans…why people don’t see the red flags of GitHub becoming a monopoly over the code ecosystem is beyond me…..
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> VS feels like a big, bloated IDE where you have to memorise the location of 4e6 different GUI positions This one sentence convinces me that you have not used VSCode in any meaningful way. I ditched GUI items for getting stuff done long time ago with VSCode. I just bring up the command palette and type away. Its insanely great.
> I ditched GUI items When I tried VS Code, it wasn't even possible to hide the tabs. As a long-time user of Emacs and highly-configurable X window managers, the inability to remove useless graphical elements like tabs made VS Code unbearable.
VS Code originally did not have tabs, since their introduction you have always been able to turn them off with the workbench.editor.showTabs setting.
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#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you alleging that GitHub was aware of this and copied it? Personally, this is the first that I've heard of 1s, but I'm conversely aware that Microsoft has been working on cloud based development with vscode for a while now.
I'm sure even Nat Friedman saw github1s because it was high up on HN and he frequents the site. When I saw github1s on HN a while ago I thought Githuh should just hire whoever built that. Difficult to argue if it was a plain rip-off or not, because the idea is somewhat obvious if you work in that space. BUT, it's amazing to see how innovation is driven by individuals and small players faster then large companies - be…
Not everyone sees everything that makes it to the front page. I've been frequenting HN for 10 years and this is the first I've heard of github1s, though it's not my job to know about it. It's cool.
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Why is it scary?
Ellen Ullman quotes Whitfield Diffie in her book Life in Code and I think he’s spot on: > We were slaves to the mainframe! he said. Dumb terminals! That's all we had. We were powerless under the big machine's unyielding central control. Then we escaped to the personal computer, autonomous, powerful. Then networks. The PC was soon rendered to be nothing but a "thin client," just a browser with very little software res…
That doesn’t really explain why it is bad, it just asserts that “dumb terminals” are bad.
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#288I have been using my own ver. Of online vscode for about a year now, had it set up on a micro server on GCP, it has its benefits while on the run and needing a quick go-to solution , very nice of GitHub implementing this solution , handy
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I've just tested with Safari on MacOS. 1. Go to any Github repo 2. Press . 3. Wait for the editor to load... 4. Press Ctrl/Command + P 5. It opens VSCode's "Go to File" prompt
Nice! Works for me too on Chrome on MacOS. Too bad cmd+w, ctrl+tab, and ctrl+shift-tab doesn't close an editor tab / switch editor tabs… and if you hover on the close icon, it just tells you to use cmd+w instead of something else.
For me those work as expected when I have the tab as full-screen.
Considering that there was obviously going to be a keyboard-clash, their approach seems to be very pragmatic.
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#290I've been using this for a while. Very, very, very handy for - Just exploring some code. - Quickly pull up as reference code w/ decent navigation without having to checkout locally or navigate forward/back in the source tree in GitHub. - When reviewing PRs and wanting to check out some surrounding code that is not part of the actual PR. - If you want to quickly commit something really small and trivial in master/a br…
>Some of the most used VSCode hotkeys are browser hotkeys, like Ctrl+T, Ctrl+P, Ctrl+Shift+P etc.
All of this works for me when I am in full-screen mode.