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Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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This 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.

I don’t know if this is related, but for me the terminal is broken and causes VS Code to crash. It only happens after a command finishes executing and before the shell prompts again

Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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I'm convinced that the win10 Start Menu was the single worst thing microsoft inflicted upon us in that OS. I imagine that particular discussion went like this: Exec1:"We have a semi decent os with a refreshingly updated UI that should stay relevant for a decade. How can we make it better?" Exec2: "why not replace the perfectly good start menu we have with an ugly, oddly proportioned rectangle with animated ads for ou…

Do you remember the windows 8 full screen start menu?

I used it and it was alright. They made it optionally not full screen in Windows 8.1 quickly too.

Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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1. Use println 2. That's fine, they'll just build some cloud feature

> 1. Use println Printf debugging is a usability and productivity disaster compared to an actual debugger.

It depends, it can be useful to easily debug some flows. It’s also sometimes better for interactive applications where pausing the execution would break the interface.

A developer should use both.

Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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This 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.

I thought I was going crazy, but it started feeling materially worse sometime in last few weeks.

after two decades my muscle memory in the terminal is pretty important. that + with keyboard shortcuts ive had multiple jobs ask me to "slow down" when doing screenshares as everything moves so fast.

Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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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)

I like PowerShell too, but in what universe other than ours (clearly the worst one) is it even possible for loading a module to take more time than the blink of an eye? Microsoft should find it embarrassing how long it takes powershell to load a module. Pushing to autocomplete a cmdlet name should never take more than maybe 100 milliseconds.

Reminds of why I sold my Windows. One day I just had enough of things breaking in all the colors of the rainbow.

For every problem I have on my macOS, some poor Windows user have experienced 50 non-Googleable errors. I do like Powershell though.

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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?

Recent changes have been a little invasive. The terminal auto complete was a week or so ago, and the popular Gitlens extension also recently pushed a really poor rebase interface. Besides those two in the last weeks, I can't remember any time VS Code has messed up my workflows so badly.

I remember thinking wtf when Python import suggestions became disabled by default.

https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/3579

Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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I'm convinced that the win10 Start Menu was the single worst thing microsoft inflicted upon us in that OS. I imagine that particular discussion went like this: Exec1:"We have a semi decent os with a refreshingly updated UI that should stay relevant for a decade. How can we make it better?" Exec2: "why not replace the perfectly good start menu we have with an ugly, oddly proportioned rectangle with animated ads for ou…

When Windows Phone was a thing, those live tiles were amazing. Those giant squares in the Win10 start menu were live tiles. Such a shame that so few applications on Win10 made use of them.

Never saw the point of them. I prefer static content, something which most web designers can't wrap their heads around.

Easy navigation is something Mac sucks at for no good reason. I don't know why Windows is trying to degrade their advantage.

Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

#100

This 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?

I've seen some weird breakage recently in vscode. The C++ support failing to parse sources correctly (for LLVM), Rust debugging no longer showing vectors properly. Not sure if this is some bizarre interaction with my setup (which is pretty vanilla Ubuntu) or a regression in basic functionality brought on by an over-emphasis on AI features.

It is worrying that for many months now, pretty much all the content of changelogs has been about AI.

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