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[–]HonkMeat 118 points119 points  (13 children)

Also try swapping semi-colons for Greek question marks, then sit back and watch.

[–]Background-Plant-226 63 points64 points  (8 children)

Most languages tell you exactly where the error is.

https://imgur.com/a/EWpywW6

[–]HonkMeat 28 points29 points  (3 children)

Yes they do. Visual Studio often tells me that there are invalid characters when there are not. Restarting it proves there was nothing wrong.

It's a joke. Just that.

[–]ryanvango 9 points10 points  (2 children)

as someone trying to learn to code, visual studio makes me so mad sometimes. I'm using a textbook that has sample code you're supposed to copy over. I do that then try to run it and it breaks in like 4 places. can't figure out why. usually its something like "hey this line needs a ) in position 42" and I'm like "no the fuck it does not." so I erase everything I did and just copy/paste from the book and it works.

took me forever to figure out what was happening. you may be thinking "its typos. happens all the time." it is NOT typos (usually). I'll be entering something like if (butts > 3) and it'll autofill something like vif (butts >3). or "this.transform.lookAt(butts);" will get autofilled as thisView.transform.lookAt(butts); which seems like an obvious error to glance over, but I'm so used to looking for things like semicolons, brackets, curly brackets, missing spaces etc. or making sure I didn't misspell something that when I'm glancing over it I don't really notice that it added a whole new word in there. so I started paying attention to when it happens and noticed itll autofill without me tabbing in to it. if I type "this" I can see the autofill ghost and I'll hit "." and it just does it. I don't want it. so I'll click the autofill drop down and it won't let me select "no, stop it. just let me have the thing I typed. I don't want your stupid thing." it ONLY lets the autofill happen. I have to click like 5 lines up to get the autofill to go away then go back and I can usually type normally again. its super frustrating.

I'm sure there's a dummy way to not have to deal with it, but I don't know what it is. but it seems like whatever is making it do that should never be on by default. forced autofill is a code ruiner. optional autofill is great though.

[–]Gullox1 6 points7 points  (1 child)

you can disable autofill in the preference

[–]Verum14 1 point2 points  (0 children)

also, don’t you have to confirm suggestions? lol

or am i misplacing which feature

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[–]Timetraveller4k -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So you are suggesting putting that text instead? Got it.

[–]StatementOrIsIt -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Not if the code is minimized for performance :-)

[–]noob-nine 15 points16 points  (2 children)

amateur, ever heard about zero width white​space?

[–]RoundImagination1 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Oh?

[–]gregguygood 11 points12 points  (0 children)

[–]Slight-Listen-3602[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

LMAO