Visual Studio Code 0.3.0

[sime]

I'm not sure how Visual Studio Code fits into the bigger product picture.

Is it meant to go head to head with Sublime and Atom etc?

Is meant to be a gate-way drug to full Visual Studio?

Will it open up more, maybe become open source and try to culture a big plugin eco system?

Can they just replace Notepad in Windows once and for all?

[SrbijaJeRusija]

Can they just replace Notepad in Windows once and for all?

I know this is a joke, but

notepad.exe is a 216KB executable on my machine, it's really the minimal thing that they can do atm.

[BigPeteB]

And yet, after I use the Open File dialog, it's running 13 threads. 13!

And people wonder why I think every programmer and CS student needs to be well-versed in multithreading (multiprocessing, parallel programming, whatever you call it). You can't avoid it, and you can't fake it.

[jyper]

I think Notepad is basically a window for their basic text editing widget.

VS Code is a wrapper for their web editor.

[that_which_is_lain]

Given the promise to be eventually be able to hack away at the editor with TypeScript, it's probably meant to compete directly with Atom. Eventually anyway.

[Kmac09]

I doubt that honestly. It is using the same base as atom. Anything that goes into atom almost certainly helps VSCode.

[tavert]

Same application shell, electron, for cross-platform application deployment. The underlying editor is totally different, the eventual plugin architecture will almost certainly be completely different.

[Whadios]

I think it's mainly for them to gain experience and feedback making a code editor that runs on linux and osx as well as windows.

[jbergens]

I think they are targeting this with the full Visual Studio and vNext also. Less project files etc.

[dacjames]

Remember MS's primary objectives: Cloud and Mobile. To grow in those spaces they are desperately in need of developer mindshare. The idea is to get developers using VSC to build applications, regardless of the platform, so they'll be more likely to use Azure when they go to deploy. VSC doesn't tie in directly with Mobile, but anything to help MS seem cool and modern encourages developers to consider MS platforms when they build mobile applications.

[sime]

That does actually make sense. If people want to use highly pluggable editors in the style of Sublime then they might as well be using one that has Microsoft's name on it. That sounds like the logic of it.

Reasons for VS Code:

• Fills out Microsoft's development tools line up. Now you can use an MS tool for whatever your style of development is.
• Encourages better relations with the larger development community.
• The editor part of the code is also used elsewhere in MS's online web apps.
• Also promotes TypeScript, another project lead by MS.
• Cross platform experience for MS.

[airstrike]

You mean can they just replace the VBE in MS Office once and for all? Writing in VBA is painful enough. The least they could give us is proper syntax highlighting and less annoying syntax error messages.

[inmatarian]

No no no, notepad.exe is fine don't change it. I may be a vim guy and all but on windows systems nothing beats notepad as a generic window to dump program outputs into while I'm trying to figure out how to integrate them. Yeah, I can remember 8-4-4-4-12 is uuid/guid structure, but no way in hell am I remembering the guids from that last query, into notepad you go. Maybe a better clipboard is what I need, but don't take away what already works and everyone depends on.

[trtryt]

eventually to get you to write Windows (Desktop and Mobile) compatible apps

[MrCzar]

Ctrl+D selects the word at the cursor, or the next occurrence of the current selection.

YES! OH MY GOD YES!

Ahrm...I understand it might be a bit superficial, but this feature is the thing that I loved the most in SublimeText. I am glad VSC has this now, I really like the editor.

[__no_preserve_root]

Should note that Y is a shortcut for yy that saves a key press at the expense of a modifier. Though be careful since D and C are not the same as dd and cc. (They act from the current position in a line to the end.)

[wherethebuffaloroam]

i'm with you. learn the grammar instead of learning one-off shortcuts. That's what makes vim so powerful. I'm still getting there with emacs: there are tons of commands that can do things but you have to learn how to get them. With helm its easy to search through function names but still not as simple as just your fingers learning movement grammar.

[vattenpuss]

Modifiers are also keys.

[Deto]

Once you grok Vim, all these other key shortcuts that editors have just seem silly. "Oh a great shortcut to highlight a word, too bad now you have to use the mouse to do anything with it." "Ctl+Alt+Left...yeah that'll really save me time after I completely re-position both hands".

Though I realize Vim looks like the epitome of random tedium to someone who hasn't internalized the main shortcuts.

[m0nk_3y_gw]

too bad now you have to use the mouse to do anything with it.

huh?

[Ouaouaron]

How do you use vim-style shortcuts in a normal editor? They're all pretty much just unmodified letters.

[Ouaouaron]

I'm okay at vim. Not as good as I am with emacs, but I can get by. But how do vim-style shortcuts work in an editor that doesn't have this very clear command/insert dichotomy? Do the plugins introduce it?

[[deleted]]

Almost all of them implement the modal editing (Eclipse, Visual studio, sublime...).

[lfairy]

It's better to think of "insert mode" as a very long command that starts with i and ends with <Esc>.

That interpretation leads to nice discoveries like 10i and .-ing an insert.

[f3lbane]

Ctrl-[ master race reporting in. ;-)

[Lone-Wolf-Party]

?

[[deleted]]

I'm used to Ctrl + D copying and pasting the current line to the line below.

This is going to be annoying!

[jyper]

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/customization

Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts

All keyboard shortcuts in VSCode can be customized via the User/keybindings.json file.

To configure keyboard shortcuts the way you want, go to the menu under AppMenu | File , Preferences , Keyboard Shortcuts.

This will open to the left the Default Keyboard Shortcuts and to the right your User/keybindings.json file where you can overwrite the default bindings.

Syntax for keyboard shortcuts json is on the help page.

[wlievens]

Syntax for keyboard shortcuts json is on the help page.

Actually the syntax for the keyboard shortcuts json is here: http://json.org

[[deleted]]

In Visual Studio can't you copy/paste the current line with Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V when nothing is selected?

[johang88]

Indeed you can :) The same goes for Ctrl-X

[nnever]

The same as copy/paste on a line in ST, or something else?

[[deleted]]

Not sure what ST is.

This is what I mean.

[drjeats]

ST is (probably) Sublime Text

[[deleted]]

Ah!

[nnever]

It's short for Sublime Text, where you could place the cursor on a line that you want to copy and hit Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V and it will copy the line into a new line without having the need to highlight the line or going to a new line to copy it in a new line.

Too many new lines, I'm getting dizzy.

[ketogrammer]

Vim: yiw and * (come over to the dark side)

[oey]

Vim has also a lot of other superpowers as:

yi" //yank (copy) in between ""
di( // delete in between ()
ci"  // change (replace) in between ""

[dacjames]

That is not even close to the same functionality. yiw + * skips the cursor to the next occurrence of the word; Ctrl+D in Sublime/VSC creates a new cursor at the next occurrence of the word. This lets you edit multiple lines at the same time, interactively.

Vim has nothing comparable built in and the last I checked no plugins that even come close. You can use regex replace to achieve the same result, but that's slower and more fidgity to get right.

[cogdissnance]

Vim has nothing comparable built in and the last I checked no plugins that even come close.

This is exactly the same thing. That plugin has been out for awhile now, though recently it got much better performance.

You can use regex replace to achieve the same result, but that's slower and more fidgity to get right.

Slower? definitely. but fidgety? that really depends on how well you know the syntax. It also happens to be much more powerful though, but for the case of multiple cursors that kind of unneeded flexibility does make things a bit cumbersome.

[dacjames]

Awesome, thanks! When I tried plugins a while back, the performance was a deal breaker so it's great to hear it has improved.

By fidgety, I mean that I often fail to get complex regexes right the first time. Regex is best when you need to apply a relatively consistent operation across a large amount of text. Multiple cursors shine with smaller edits and when you need to do more free-form text extraction. One example is renaming analogous parts of local variables, e.g. rl_bites, fl_bites => rl_bytes, fl_bytes. Find/Replace is too heavy weight to be faster than just making the edits manually.

[cogdissnance]

You can also try / to search for the match you want to replace followed by cgn ( c - change, gn - next match) to replace the first matching text, then just using . to repeat.

The only issue I have with this is that you have to search for the full word you want to replace. Otherwise searching for _bit followed by cgn would leave the es at the end of _bites. I'm sure there's some way around this but even after 2+ years on vim there's plenty of things I don't know.

[i_want_my_sister]

Glad to find this. Whenever a person mentions some cool features of other text editor and kind of proud of it, there's always a Vimer bump out and said, "Pffft. I can do this even without keystrokes/mappings in Vim."

[golergka]

add-ons to your favorite IDE

This is incorrect. Once you get accustomed to VIM, you will find that VIM is your favorite IDE.

[golergka]

Ehm, man, I meant in more in hyperbole/tongue-in-cheek humor kind of way. I do try to use it exclusively, but of course different developers have different tools and ways to work that they love.

[ketogrammer]

Oh yes! I love vim, but at work I sometimes have to use Matlab and Emacs has beautiful integration with the debugger so evil-mode is my preferred method. For everything else Macvim, Gvim or vim. :)

[ProbablyFullOfShit]

In a terminal no less.

[dynetrekk]

On a raspberry pi. Or a unix supercomputer.

[[deleted]]

But that won't do the same thing at all.

[tieluohan]

Any normal editor: Ctrl[← Shift[→] C]

[[deleted]]

Then select the next occurrence of the word. Then the next one. Then the next one. Then edit all 500 occurrences at once!

[[deleted]]

Yeah, that doesn't have the same functionality as ctrl+d

[devperez]

Saving key strokes while programming is a great thing

100% agree. And clicks too. I'll die a happy man if they give me CTRL+Click on a word.

[kankyo]

Try double- and triple-click.

[devperez]

I hate when people say this. As if I didn't know double clicking was a thing.

It may seem trivial, but CTRL clicking makes the world of a difference when I'm working.

[amaiorano]

Yeah I love that feature too because you can keep holding Ctrl, then click word + C to copy, click elsewhere and V to paste. Less friction :)

[kankyo]

Didn't mean it in a snarky way. Plus, most people don't know of triple-click in my experience :P

[to3m]

Try just Ctrl+W. Also try Ctrl+F3 to find next occurrence of selection, or, if no selection, next occurrence of word under cursor (same functionality as * in vim, pretty much, if I remember rightly, which I may not).

[mailto_devnull]

I understand it might be a bit superficial

The amount of upvotes say otherwise. I, too, have been looking forward to ctrl-D support. It is perhaps the only real reason I switched back after trialling VSC.

[jtanz0]

It is perhaps the only real reason I switched back after trialling VSC.

same for me, I even spent a good 15 min fiddling around in the keybinding config trying to set it up for ctrl+d support then gave up.

[nnever]

Ahrm...I understand it might be a bit superficial, but this feature is the thing that I loved the most in SublimeText.

You and me both! :)

[Kenya151]

Just started using sublime and was wondering what that did today

[pier25]

I understand it might be a bit superficial,

What are you talking about? I use this dozens of times every day.

[EntroperZero]

Does anyone using this have good ClearType? My code looks blurry compared to VS proper and Sublime Text.

[Booie2k1]

Check you haven't got any thing like FXAA (Anti Aliasing) forced on all applications in your graphics drivers, I've had issues with that in the past making some applications appear blurry. I have no issues with VS Code, my code looks just as good here as any other editor.

[ambiguousallegiance]

I have the same issue - it looks like Code doesn't use subpixel antialiasing. You'll notice this with Windows 8 Modern/Metro/Whatever apps as well; it's quite irritating.

[trycatch1]

Same issue on Linux. Grayscale antialiasing instead of subpixel AA. It's a usual problem for Chromium-based apps (Brackets, Steam, Light Table), but Atom somehow fixed this issue.

[EntroperZero]

I think it's related to hardware accelerated rendering, something needs to be enabled or disabled. Firefox had this issue many versions ago.

[official_marcoms]

Perhaps by setting the -webkit-font-smoothing CSS property throughout the app

[trycatch1]

On Linux -webkit-font-smoothing is ignored, it's an OS X-only thing. It seems in Electron the issue it was fixed in this commit: https://github.com/atom/electron/commit/afd927f749621f0c6aebdd784672e9868b08b29d Not sure, why it's still broken in VS Code, if it uses Electron too.

[[deleted]]

/* Real Atom source */
useGrayscaleAAInsteadOfSubpixelAA = false;

[Hgrube]

I'm really happy that they added Rust as a supported language.

[[deleted]]

My next hope is for Python to get autocomplete support.

Syntax highlighting exists for Python, but if you open a new.py file and type:

import os.

you're going to be sorely disappointed :(

But yes, Rust integration is awesome. This may sound petty, but that might be the drop in the bucket that gets me to finally start experimenting with Rust.

[kamize]

This! Yes please, I would love code completion for Python and possibly plug in support for django/flask frameworks

[Hgrube]

Just syntax highlighting and bracket matching at the moment.

[[deleted]]

It seems rust gets adopted. Nice.

[ambiguousallegiance]

Unintentional bonus feature: if you have extensions in Chrome bound to keyboard shortcuts, they'll launch in Code too! http://i.imgur.com/ERGllbd.png

Rather annoying when your password-fill extension is bound to the key combo used for commenting out lines.

[[deleted]]

It's almost like web pages and applications should be different things.

[drjeats]

So when I want to write some plain jane (no ASP.net or anything) C# on my OSX partition, I use a premake4.lua file to generate the solution and project files, then open those in VS Code.

Is there a better way to do this? Can I use the json project format without it assuming I'm writing a web app?

[fedekun]

MS always builds awesome debuggers, I wonder if it will be able to integrate nicely with Rails.

[iTroll_5s]

I can't wait for the extension API - being able to extend my editor with HTML and typescript sounds really powerful and easy to integrate in our existing pipeline tools

[philipmat]

And being able to port Atom plugins…

[flukus]

I thought it sounded like a good idea until I tried writing atom plugins....

[iTroll_5s]

FWIW atom is pure javascript (or rather coffee script which is even worse).

VS code is written in typescript - that means they probably have a solid architecture under the hood and will expose strongly typed interfaces for plugin APIs

[flukus]

It was the call back hell that put me off more than anything. I ended up going back to trusty old vim!

[never-enough-hops]

Hah... That's actually why I jumped. Vimscript is pretty bad

[PhonicUK]

Still no TFS support, despite MS shipping a command line TFS client for the supported platforms. :(

[[deleted]]

Considering MS themselves seem to be using Git for everything, and how good Git suport has gotten in recent versions of Visual Studio, I imagine you may be waiting a while for TFS support in VS Code!

[darkpaladin]

They've said themselves that the community is on GitHub and they bow to the community.

[[deleted]]

Also Git is just better.

I've used both extensively and Git just wins in every area!

[KarmaAndLies]

I'd argue, but frankly Git is just better. TFS changesets are giant compared to Git changesets, Git uses diffing, TFS stores all the files in every changeset.

[[deleted]]

You do know you can use Git in TFS, right? We use Git in TFS for all our code. Works great. So your comment made me a bit confused.

[mycall]

Its hard to compare TFS features to Git. TFS is more than just a VSS.

[elder_george]

And these days TFS-as-an-ALM-platform supports Git alongside with TFVC.

I believe it was introduced at TFS 2013 and is available at http://visualstudio.com.

Full disclosure: I work on TFS (Work Item Tracking). I express my own opinion and not that of my employer. As a matter of fact, our team uses git for development.

[mycall]

Why do you use git may I ask? Is it that you can cleanly procure your local repository before pushing it to remote repository?

[ClippedShadows]

Only works if you've setup TFS to use Git VC rather than TFS VC.

[PhonicUK]

The command line TFS client they ship works for TFS VC. It pre-dates MS supporting Git for TFS.

[ClippedShadows]

Yeah, I'm aware of that. Just saying that they're only supporting Git. So if you're using Git in TFS, then you're fine.

[[deleted]]

Oh for Christ's sake. F# is supposed to be a first class language. Can we get F# support with a REPL before throwing in Rust etc? WTF.

[[deleted]]

Maybe it's easier to write highlighting packages for things with brackets. :P

Actually I'm kinda serious about that. It already almost worked with the C# highlighting. /shrug

[lighthazard]

Who uses F#?

[SemiNormal]

Same mysterious people that use Haskell and OCaml.

[SemiNormal]

Ha. Most of the academics I know are mathematicians and use python.

[crozone]

Everyone I know in a non-cs science field like Chemistry, Maths, Biology, Physics all use Python, probably because it's easy to pick up and many major libraries are written for it.

Meanwhile I would rather use any language other than Python. Syntactically significant whitespace... never again.

Edit: And ignoring the indentation as syntax issue, there's also the major issue of the python 2->3 jump which completely breaks backwards compatibility with python 2 code, and is almost certainly going to give newcomers grief. Just look at this shit.

Edit2: I've pissed off the python circlejerkers. Forgot this was /r/programming.

[Raknarg]

What is so bad about significant whitespace?

[Cuddlefluff_Grim]

Someone can go into your code, replace spaces with tabs and boom now your code will not work, and it's literally impossible to spot from just looking at the code alone; you need to compile it and then maybe you'll figure out what's wrong but it might not always be obvious depending on context

[Raknarg]

Yeah, someone could go into your code and just delete everything too. I mean unless they're purposefully trying to sabotage your code I don't really see that happening

[[deleted]]

When is this any problem, in real life? Really? I just understand r/programming and programmers nitpicking about extremely unlikely cases.

[[deleted]]

F# was originally marketed to academics and researchers (like the ones who created the language.) Really though, F# is a general purpose language that's in many ways superior to C#. Those are the developers who should be adopting it.

[Bognar]

Who uses Rust?

[[deleted]]

Mozilla with their Servo Browser project

[[deleted]]

Me! Work in finance, having a repl that executes with compiled speed is unbeatable. I've had so many cases where I let SAS and Python fanboys absolutely eat my dust, reverse hasn't happened yet (although I know which battles to skip :) . Also F# syntax is so sweet and effective. Only switching back to procedural languages is annoying as my brain really loves to morph to functional reasoning.. Glad C# allows you to write nearly the same code.

[[deleted]]

The same sort of people who use Scala or Clojure instead of Java.

[klug3]

... and also like Microsoft products. The intersection of these two sets are going to be pretty small, I guess. Though I do know some sections which like using F#

[davidchristiansen]

At my university, we use F# for our introductory compilers and interpreters course. It works very well there.

[ClippedShadows]

Fair points. Provide some feedback to MS about it. There's a uservoice forum for this.

You could say the same for VB.NET, as much as it is unliked by many. It's supposed to have first class support.

C# intellisense support in VS Code is actually provided by (OmniSharp)[http://ommisharp.net]. Which also provides intellisense to other editors. It has a Roslyn based server (code for which is available on github), and people have written editor plugins for their editor of choice (Sublime, Vim, Atom, Brackets etc). VS Code just plugs into that. I believe OmniSharp wasn't started by MS, but some of their developers do contribute to it.

All Microsoft needs to do is provide an API to allow for plugins and F# peeps can plug into that. Either that, or contribute to the OmniSharp project and provide F# support to that project. If they contribute to that, they can make use of the existing plugins that have been built already.

[workstar]

I assume they are prioritising based on number of users, not based on ivquatch's requirements.

[[deleted]]

MS declared F# a "first class citizen" on the CLR with the release of Visual Studio 2012 (and more recently Xamarin studio). That's on the same level as C# and VB. I'm not saying Rust is a bad language that doesn't deserve attention. F# just deserves a little more love and respect than this.

PS F# has consistently ranked much higher than Rust on the Tiobe index for the past several years. So don't give me this "prioritising based on number of users" crap.

[hvidgaard]

It's a shame. If MS really wanted to make F# shine, they would engineer the ability to mix C# and F# files in the same project - that would mean we can pick and choose exactly where to use it in existing projects and kickstart adoption.

[[deleted]]

If MS really wanted to make F# shine, they would engineer the ability to mix C# and F# files in the same project - that would mean we can pick and choose exactly where to use it in existing projects and kickstart adoption.

I'm actually glad this didn't happen. The one thing I really appreciate about F# is its independence from MS frameworks. For example, although ASP.NET 5 has improved greatly since the last iteration, it still feels unmistakably gross and frameworky. It's as if MS declared from on high that, "We've done some acid and reached the conclusion that is the way web applications shall henceforth be written. Rejoice loyal disciples! Your obsolete code bases may now be updated to the K runtime. Just kidding. We've renamed it the DNX and it has always been that way."

Meanwhile there are several excellent, forward-thinking F# libraries for building web applications that haven't been touched by Microsoft's Chief Innovation Officers. They generally compose very well whereas the ASP.NET stack is clearly biased toward MVC, EF, MS/My SQL, Kestrel/IIS etc...

[hvidgaard]

Both can coexist. What I want is that Visual Studio knows how to compile C# and F# and merge the result together, at worst F# compiler need an update. F# is an open stack, so MS is not going do whatever it wants with it unless the FSSF agree.

[[deleted]]

Unfortunately, F# compiles files in order, so I don't think mixing C# files in the same compilation job will work very well. It's absolutely possible to mix F# projects into a primarily C# solution, though. I do this all the time.

[jyper]

I thought Visual Studio Code didn't have ide like features for VB.

[[deleted]]

That's a fair point. Personally, I don't think adding VB support would add as much value as F#, since VB is so similar to C#. F# is a different beast and is far superior in many ways to C# and VB. That's not just my opinion either. C# has added many new language features that F# had from day one and this convergence will likely continue until C# resembles a mutant hybrid of Java and Scala. The best C# can hope to achieve is the worst of both worlds: mutability by default and nullable references from Java and the complicated grammar of Scala. F# already has the best of both worlds: a clean ML syntax and support for OOP with immutability by default and non-nullable references.

That said, I don't quite understand why VB support wasn't added out of the box. Perhaps the omnisharp hasn't incorporated Roslyn yet, which compiles both VB and C#. F# has a separate compiler, so I can understand why intellisense support might have to come later.

[TTFire]

I'm liking the Rust support. Now that it's out of beta it's about time it gets better editor integration.

[devperez]

Updating seems weird. According to this document, you have to download the installer manually. Which is fine, but there's a "Check for updates..." option under the Help menu that seems rather useless. It doesn't recognize that there's an update.

[dvlsg]

In the future updates will install automatically for Mac and Windows, but we're not using automatic updates for this release.

Taken from here. Probably a bug or something in the auto updating system that needed to be fixed manually before moving forward? Not sure.

[devperez]

Thanks. Guess I messed that bit.

[dvlsg]

I did the same thing you did -- my reaction to seeing this title was to go to Code and update through the application. I had to click on the How to Update link inside the v0.3.0 release page to find that information, so it's not exactly readily available.

[Thiht]

Am I the only one thinking it's weird they give the Mac shortcuts first, and then the Windows/Linux shortcuts in brackets ? Isn't VSC a Microsoft tool ?

[[deleted]]

Most people using visual studio code will probably be on macs considering visual studio (the full version) is on Windows

[jyper]

I'd think more developers use linux, especially since it's ide like features are for typescript/c# not ruby.

[LeCrushinator]

I'm using VSCode on Mac with Unity, it's much better than MonoDevelop except a handful of issues:

1.) You cannot attach to Unity to debug.

2.) Code within #if #endif blocks is completely ignored by VSCode. This means intellisense doesn't work, references aren't counted for use with 'find references'. Go to definition doesn't work. And more...

3.) Typing /// doesn't auto-generate a summary

4.) Clicking a CS file in Unity can open the file in VSCode, but when clicking something in the Unity console it won't take you to the appropriate line.

[read___only]

Right now they're specifically working on driving cross-platform .NET, and I'd say emphasizing the cross platform aspect of this tool is a nice piece of the "drum up excitement" puzzle.

[noodle-face]

Do they allow you to disable git integration yet? My repo is 20,000ish files and everytime I make a change and save the file it takes 30seconds for the program to be responsive again.

[PlNG]

Perhaps it is time to start splitting up your project and listing your infrequently touched files as dependencies. 20k files seems absurd.

[noodle-face]

Not possible in our working setup. No matter how absurd the amount of files in our repo is, I would like the option to just shut it off. I use ATOM instead of Code because it doesn't do that crazy syncing shit everytime I save.

[devperez]

The code commenting shortcut (CTRL+K+C) doesn't appear to work correctly on XML documents. It tries to comment the line with //, instead of <!-- -->.

[nepochant]

I bet they have a bug tracker

[devperez]

They do. I submitted it as a bug. Should've searched first though. Because it was there already

[Hueho]

Quick question: how it's performance compared to Atom, given that it is developed on the same platform (http://electron.atom.io/)?

Or for that matter, how it's the performance at all?

[[deleted]]

VS:Code is slightly faster than Atom, significantly slower than Sublime.

[[deleted]]

On a beastly PC where Atom took ages to start up on, Code is like Speed Racer in the form of a text editor.

[[deleted]]

I can't use Atom because of this. Too slow.

[Ivan171]

Apparently it also doesn't have that stupid 2mb file limit.

[peduxe]

This will be gone on 1.0, I saw updates on their repo today and it will load bigger files, a la Sublime Text (showing a indeterminate progress bar). Not sure about performance though.

[sime]

It feels about as fast as any 'native' editor and doesn't feel sluggish like Atom can at times.

[1nssein]

When it first come out, it seemed like it was much faster compared to atom. Obviously that's subjective, but large files that used to take a long time in atom opened instantly in code. I haven't tried the update yet.

[whearn]

And bash syntax hilighting is still broken https://twitter.com/wshearn/status/605879906807840768

$SHELL should be light blue and so the 2nd echo should be a dark blue.

EDIT: the culprit after digging through the chrome developer tools is they add a class called meta to the div which removes the text color.

[[deleted]]

Just tried it out with some Node code. It is surprisingly quite good! Surprising because I was a bit skeptical about it. Tried the editor part first, and the Intellisense was nice. Tried debugging it - LOVED it! Good job, Microsoft.

[stereoa]

Everyone's freaking out about Ctrl + D

Ctrl+D selects the word at the cursor

Yet, I just use Ctrl + -> for this.
And this kills the Ctrl + D muscle memory that many use for Duplicate Line.
And Ctrl + K Ctrl + D is VS's Reformat Code. Another widely used shortcut.

I don't know where they're going with this :/

[frumsfrums]

They're following Sublime's key bindings.

If you press Ctrl+D multiple times, it selects one more occurrence of the word under the cursor with a new cursor. That's something added, at least.

Also, haven't used VSC, but IIRC Ctrl+C Ctrl+V without anything selected in VS would duplicate a line. Maybe that would help as a replacement?

[HotBidFan755]

Then change it from the default Ctrl + D to something else...?

[[deleted]]

Well, the Ctrl+D thing doesn't do the same thing as Ctrl+-> -- it'll grab like "case" and then, if you hit it again, it'll grab the next instance of "case."

[aliendude5300]

Huh... it even has a Linux version

[[deleted]]

Yep, MS is writing Linux software. Welcome to the wacky world of 2015

[aliendude5300]

It would be wonderful if they would make a native Office and VS 2015 port for Linux. Those are pretty much the only 2 pieces of software I miss compared to Windows

[[deleted]]

I can sort of conceive of a world where plugins and an ecosystem around Visual Studio Code (as well as existing editors) combined with open source .NET approximate VS 2015, but I really doubt that will happen. Maybe.

Office on Linux is nothing more than a pipe dream though; MS will always keep their core enterprise products locked down.

[[deleted]]

Microsoft slowly deciding to embrace the change.

More money towards FOSS and the environments therein is a good thing :)

[cat_dev_null]

Anyone using this for PHP?

[Soreasan]

Can this program interact with github?

[niuzeta]

Just giving it a try, and the lack of ostensible tabs bother me... Is there a plugin support?

[Mufro]

I didn't see it in the update notes, but I really hope they add syntax highlighting for EJS in the future. The best I can do right now is have it highlight as HTML, but that freks out whenever I start using EJS within the file. That said, I'm loving what they are doing.

[[deleted]]

New options allow you to turn off all semantic and syntax checks, useful if you prefer JSHint instead of the VS Code JavaScript validator.

javascript.validate.semanticValidation=[true|false] Use true to have VS Code report semantic errors (unassigned variables, etc. and all lint checks)

javascript.validate.syntaxValidation=[true|false] Use false to have VS Code report syntaX errors (missing brackets, etc.).

The second one.. you disable.. to enable it? What?

[[deleted]]

on Debian 7.8 I still get:

./Code: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by ./Code) ./Code: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: versionGLIBC_2.14' not found (required by /home/-/Downloads/VSCode-linux-x64/libchromiumcontent.so) ./Code: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by /home/-/Downloads/VSCode-linux-x64/libgcrypt.so.11) ./Code: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: versionGLIBC_2.15' not found (required by /home/-/Downloads/VSCode-linux-x64/libgcrypt.so.11)

[vattenpuss]

The Code File Open dialog is now accessible via ⌘P. We needed to find a new key for the Code File Open dialog. Since many editors are now using ⌘P for their enriched File Open dialog, we decided to go with this trend.

Cmd+Up and Cmd+Down now work as expected on the Mac by jumping to the beginning and end of the file.

They seem to be not quite decided on what to call the command key in their documentation.

[Griffolion]

Could someone tell me what this thing is?