Copy Syntax Highlight is huge. Years ago, I had written a utility to invoke syntax highlighting from text sources for use in PowerPoint presentations and Photoshop editing (https://github.com/minimaxir/copy-syntax-highlight-osx/ ); I am very happy it is now obsolete.
I think VS Code is pretty awesome. But I stopped using it because the monthly update experience on Ubuntu Linux pretty much sucks...by which I mean it mirrors the Windows update experience. One day I sit down to work and it's time to update and I lose fifteen or twenty minutes plus flow state going through the process (o.k. Windows with multiple reboots is actually noticeably worse often times (like just earlier this week)).
I get that there might not be business value in maintaining a PPA. And upgrading Emacs to the latest version required compiling from source (chosen over trusting something unofficial) and that was a more of a pain in the ass than updating VS Code tends to be by a factor of six. But I only need to suffer that pain occasionally and Emacs does not nag me every time open it up and make me feel like I should upgrade.
Again, I like VS Code, but I don't like being a second class citizen for using Linux. [1] I just want to go to my editor session and edit whether it's the last day of the month or the first.
[1]: I'm not anti Windows - but for Vista, I've used every desktop version for making money since Windows 3.1 (and DOS's before that) and owned each of them but for NT 4.0 and Vista. Even ME and XP Professional x64.
I haven't been following Atom, or other editors, very closely since I started using VS Code. But this team seems to be going at an incredible pace!!
Well done another superb release. Keep it up.
What is the long term value to Microsoft for VS Code? It is definitely improving their image within the web development community, and I imagine it is also winning them favor with Go developers.
Have people noticed a network effect after using VS Code? Are you getting sucked into the rest of the MS ecosystem at all?
A minimap! This was one of the last remaining Sublime features that I missed.
Although vscode is a very impressive project, I get the impression it would prove frustrating for my use case: particularly, I am in the habit of using and hacking on my editor when I do not have net connectivity, and what this update and the last 2 updates have done is display a prominent banner in a contrasting background color saying "Error: the internet connection appears to be offline" that won't go away until I manually dismiss it. Then the banner reappears a few minutes later according to some criteria I have been unable to guess, and there is no "don't show again" button like there is on some other banners vscode shows me.
Also I discovered no way to obtain a usable local copy vscode's documentation without acquiring deep knowledge of the system. (The deep knowledge becomes necessary after I clone the repo at github.com/Microsoft/vscode-docs.)
In summary, I'm going to encounter many frustrations if I make a deep dive into vscode the way it exists today, and I should wait till someone adapts it for offline use; is that not true?
VS code has changed the way I feel about the editor landscape. It's been good for a while but the past three months have made it GREAT!
If you've not experienced writing type script in vscode, I HIGHLY recommend it. It's amazing
I've been using VSCode for golang recently and it's been amazing. It just feels faster and more responsive than Atom. I love how it suggested golang plugins as soon as I started editing a go source file- and they just work!
I'm hoping they add in support for multiple project folders soon [1]. It makes it a bit difficult to work with microservices since I need a few projects open at a time.
Nice! Some really great additions in this release. I'm particularly excited by the official Linux repos and keybindings in the file explorer.
Great work VSCode team! I'm continually impressed with each release.
Only reason I am still using Atom is flow support that comes with Nuclide. I know VS code has a couple flow plugins as well.. Can anyone compare Atom's flow support with VScode?
Today I was looking into using the VS Code debugger for embedded C and I was surprised that the c/c++ extension is not open source. Does anyone know the reason?
The repo seems to be broken for me on Debian Testing. Maybe they should list "apt-transport-https" as a dependency.
Hit:1 http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian stretch InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found.
N: Is the package apt-transport-https installed?
E: Failed to fetch https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode/dists/stable/InR...
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.`
Awesome work VSCode team!!
I can't figure out how to enable TypeScript auto import - is it hidden behind a flag? Coming from IDEs, I've been waiting for this feature for a long time.
Geez, another fantastic update.
Minimap! I love this in Visual Studio.
Keyboard shortcuts for tasks! Very welcome.
Clickable links in the terminal is awesome for BitBucket which responds to pushes w/ links to create PRs.
Did I miss auto imports feature announcement? I saw that typescript got this support and it was pending a VS code release, I figured this would be the release
It has a minimap! This is excellent.
Could someone do an in-depth comparison of VSC and Atom for PHP development projects? I'd love to switch but am afraid that VSC is missing something, like the precious PHP-integrator stuff. Does it have reasonable support for Xdebug?
Is there any solution for a origami (or tmux) like window management? Thx
So happy to see the improved task support(key bindings!) that's one of the few things that was missing in some of my more custom workflows.
I'm still looking for the auto-reload preview that is right beside the code which refreshes when you save.
I love vscode, I just wish the clojure plugin had a debugger so I didn't have to use intelliJ anymore.
Is it just for me, or did the 1.10 update killed other people's custom user settings too? (OS X)
What is the difference between this and Visual Studio Mac?
Is there a reason I would pick one over the other?
Would be nice if we could integrate Visual Studio Code into XCode on Macs..
They changed the colour of the license icon (yellow to red).
Visual Studio Code is an oxymoron -- there isn't anything visual about it. "Visual" in Visual Studio use to mean UI widgets you can drop onto a form or some layout grid.
Awesome! WebDAV/TypeScript issue fixed.
Any word on GWT support for VSCode?
What is the difference between this and Visual Studio Mac?
Is there a reason I would pick one over the other?
VSCode team is killing it! Literally every month its tangibly making the product better. I still use Sublime occasionally on really large files as its performance is so good but for most things VSCode is my go-to!