Visual Studio has been doing wacky stuff to me like this when I am trying to start a LINQ statement and type a letter to be the lambda variable like Select(f => … but when I hit ‘f’ it just autocompletes some random model from some .NET api that starts with F that I then have to delete because why would I want FileStreamCombulator right now I’m trying to start a lambda??? and don’t remember it doing this in the past.
Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together
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Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together
#32This is a company that cannot get "basic file search" working on their OS for 30+ years, I'm hardly holding my breath as they double-down on overcomplexity with even more overcomplexity. Shout-out to FileLocator Pro as an aside.
Or the start menu search
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#33This is actually bearable compared to the new terminal suggestions in vscode. Not only does it autosuggest bizzare completions for commands, it breaks shell completions. So when I tab a file path, it shoves the absolute path into the partially typed path making it unusable.
It’s so weird, vscode worked flawlessly for me for years and after migrating to neovim a month or two ago I keep seeing complains.
Has there been a change lately and in the project, or is it just internet bias?
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#34Why do people still spend time worrying about M$ stuff…
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#35Ditch VSCode, switch to Zed.
There are still plenty of things that VSCode does and Zed doesn't. E.g. Dart debugging.
Also there is the VC money problem with Zed, at some point, that money will want returns on every dollar spent.
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#36Don't get me started on powershell! For one, it's the right arrow key for complete for most things (but tab for others). But by FAR the worst thing is that often times you'll type a command and try to tab/arrow complete an argument, and the module/dll or whatever is not loaded into memory, and so theres some blocking operation and loads the module which takes 10+ seconds. This happens to me almost every day. I do lov…
I have a deep and abiding love of Powershell but you are spot on.
It is amazing until you run into one of these insane behaviors that somehow nobody ever fixed.
(Some are actually fixed finally in 7.x - like issues with filenames with grave characters in them)
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#37Pretty sure you’re supposed to press return in order to accept a dropdown suggestion. Tab is for accepting the AI code completion. I disabled completions.
Pretty sure they hijacked a key most developers had a muscle memory of using since Visual Basic 6 to pump their AI usage metrics, and then invented a workaround that requires re-learning their tool.
Fair point.
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#38I switched from Sublime to VSCode years ago and have been fairly happy but the recent AI onslaught in VSCode is making me look at other editors.
Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together
#39Don't get me started on powershell! For one, it's the right arrow key for complete for most things (but tab for others). But by FAR the worst thing is that often times you'll type a command and try to tab/arrow complete an argument, and the module/dll or whatever is not loaded into memory, and so theres some blocking operation and loads the module which takes 10+ seconds. This happens to me almost every day. I do lov…
If you like Powershell but have some complaints, you might find nushell to be the best of both worlds. My elevator pitch for it would be imagine the object-oriented / typed nature of Powershell, minus the verbosity and windows-centric design of it. As someone who develops on and for windows computers, nushell is a real breath of fresh air.
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#40> Ivan was born at a very young age, this has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move.
Lol