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…is to just put .diff or .patch at the end of its URL. I use this all the time! Random PR example, https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/280106 has a diff at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/280106.diff Another thing that…

comment by lelandfe · 2025-11-30 · in Migrating Dillo from GitHub

…knew how it was made (LLMs or not). As another suspicious data point see this issue by the author: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/272725 Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45952581 found some concrete issues

comment by rudedogg · 2025-11-17 · in Open-source Zig book

…prior to publishing this repo, and that's an issue where they mention "ai has made me too lazy": https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/272725

comment by CathalMullan · 2025-11-16 · in Open-source Zig book

…brought up to date again. Moral of the story: Emacs is life. I'm sorry I ever doubted it. <3 [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/204942

comment by imiric · 2025-11-16 · in IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs

…frameworks ago. Screenshot in article: > 1.99.3 Actually, 1.99.3 was released < 7 months ago: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/releases/tag/1.99.3

comment by jollyllama · 2025-10-29 · in So Cursor 2.0 is still based on VSCode from 8 months ago

It’s been around since the root commit in 2015: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/8f35cc4768393b25468...

comment by minitech · 2025-10-27 · in Severe performance penalty found in VSCode rendering loop

…you typed to appear. The latest benchmark I could find is 2022 and it's nowhere as bad as you claim https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/161622#issuecomme...

comment by TiredOfLife · 2025-10-16 · in Zed is now available on Windows

…(other than browsers) start faster than I can reasonably react. Typing has noticeable lag, see: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/27378 And this is on a workstation computer, I don't want to imagine how terrible the experience is…

comment by ben-schaaf · 2025-10-13 · in Fastmail desktop app

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/257073 drop a +1 for the cause, I guess.

comment by blinkbat · 2025-09-04 · in Ask HN: VSCode AI Autocomplete Woes

Just look at open issues, sorted by most thumbs up: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20st... One that I am interested in is tree sitter syntax highlighting support: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/50140…

comment by rs186 · 2025-08-12 · in GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/LICENSE.txt

comment by kube-system · 2025-08-11 · in GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

They should add "custom endpoint" support instead [0]. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/249605

comment by ggerganov · 2025-07-30 · in Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

…This is REH entry (the binary installed on the remote machine) https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src/vs/server/...

comment by eddythompson80 · 2025-07-27 · in Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork

…[1] https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Coding-guidelin... [2] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/41200 Edit: found the TS style guide at https://github.com/basarat/typescript-book/blob/master/docs/... , it should

comment by dimava · 2025-07-25 · in The Tabs vs. Spaces war is over, and spaces have emerged victorious

…Microsoft refuse to implement any kind of permission management or sandboxing for extensions. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/52116

comment by worble · 2025-07-15 · in Code highlighting extension for Cursor AI used for $500k theft

I'm not sure I see the problem. The number of merged PR's looks on the high side for a FOSS project. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclo...

comment by tomnipotent · 2025-06-27 · in Copilot Chat in VS Code is now open source

…about this when they have such an atrocious record of handling pull requests in VS Code already: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pulls

comment by BrentOzar · 2025-06-27 · in Copilot Chat in VS Code is now open source

…been an open feature request since 2018 [0]. I've been wanting something like this for a while. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/52116

comment by meander_water · 2025-06-25 · in Show HN: VSCan - Detect Malicious VSCode Extensions

…about it when I started. [0] https://github.com/bperel/socket-call/blob/e0076d7887397a92a... [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/24c0ff16c250f2b39ee...

comment by dataviz1000 · 2025-06-16 · in Show HN: Socket-call – Call socket.io events like normal JavaScript functions

There are repos out there with over a hundred thousand issues - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20st... has 180,000+ now. https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues?q=is%3Aissue is just over 100,000 across both open…

comment by simonw · 2025-05-26

…here for the feature on Zed: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/17455 And here on VSCode: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/20889

comment by cies · 2025-05-07 · in Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

…knowing where it is? BTW if you share the same frustration with VSCode, please vote this ticket: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/244123

comment by ferguess_k · 2025-04-22 · in SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces

…like CoPilot, VSCodium even has a guide on how to add it to VSCodium/Source Built VSCode [4] 0: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/LICENSE.txt 1: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode 2: https://vscodium.com/#why 3:…

comment by 0manrho · 2025-04-20 · in I just got an ad in VS Code

VS Code still doesn't support ESM in extensions, you have to transpile to CJS. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/130367

comment by shpx · 2025-03-24 · in Move on to ESM-Only

…functionality that would be very simple if it were a native app. Sometimes resulting in bugs like https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/22900 ("VS Code uses 13% CPU when focused and idle, draining battery ... due to the blinking…

comment by int_19h · 2025-03-05 · in Why fastDOOM is fast

This is tracked in this feature request https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/52116 We do not plan to add a permission model in the next 6 months.

comment by isidorn · 2025-02-26 · in Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace

…concerned about. Here's where they introduced wrapping the environment output in "random" numbers: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/commit/1336b3d3c0d4338fb... The associated issue explains that they needed to be able to ignore…

comment by jrootabega · 2025-02-21 · in Ask HN: Why is Cursor IDE accessing all my env vars?

It seems like the command is from this line of the VSCode source (Cursor is a fork of VSCode): https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/f8b29f8da2c9bfda029... GitHub Copilot thinks it does this to capture shell-specific environment…

comment by tsunitsuni · 2025-02-21 · in Ask HN: Why is Cursor IDE accessing all my env vars?

…but hasn't been able to keep up with the spec, and I doubt they ever will at this point (Example: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/165219 ). The newer specs for json-schema (not supported by VSCode) allow for a wider range of…

comment by Nuzzerino · 2025-02-14 · in Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model

…hire me for a couple months to do nothing but sit in a corner by myself untangling this mess. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/6dbde2a3ed308f88164...

comment by dataviz1000 · 2025-02-08 · in VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas

…large projects, but why would you keep a "printTime" function in remote extension management code? https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/c9e7e1b72f80b12ffc0... (Genuine question, I'm puzzled!)

comment by bloopernova · 2025-02-08 · in VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas

There's a feature request from 2018 to add a proper permission model for plugins in VSCode: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/52116 Sadly it doesn't seem to make any progress.

comment by retsl · 2025-02-08 · in VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas

…the misunderstanding. That being said, I'd love to know which severe bugs disrupt your usage. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/cli [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src/vs/server

comment by joaomoreno · 2025-02-08 · in VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas

…somewhere in the middle of last year, VSCode's node install stopped working with the old glibc. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/201129 Most people who hit this hard pinned their vscode to 1.85 & it took a while till this turned…

comment by gopalv · 2025-02-08 · in VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas

…extension. Should be a big button "switch to pre-release". We are tracking this issue here https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/239836

comment by isidorn · 2025-02-06 · in GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens

…you need for moderately complex projects if the suits dont have too many needs / influence. [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/237297

comment by cloverich · 2025-01-19 · in GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search

…with vscode.dev requires GitHub login? #237371" ... but it works with Marimo and JupyterLite: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/237371 Does Marimo support local file system access? jupyterlab-filesystem-access only works with…

comment by westurner · 2025-01-14 · in Show HN: WASM-powered codespaces for Python notebooks on GitHub

…which we never package nor upload to any registry. (we do it just like how VS Code does it: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/extensions ) we did not hire snyk, but we reached out to them after seeing this and they apologized.…

comment by ArVID220u · 2025-01-14 · in Snyk security researcher deploys malicious NPM packages targeting cursor.com

…with words, or a shitty ASCII art diagram. There's a very long standing VSCode issue for this. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/3220

comment by IshKebab · 2024-12-29 · in Racket-embed-images-in-source-text

…code level. Consider for example these two PRs: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/pull/23858 and https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/209557 . It's pretty easy to tell which one was more effort even if you don't know anything about…

comment by adchurch · 2024-11-20 · in Show HN: Weave - actually measure engineering productivity

…: 15.266 (Adds backend, frontend, and tests for a new feature) https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/222315 : 8.401 (Refactors code to use a new service and adds new tests) https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/27977

comment by adchurch · 2024-11-20 · in Show HN: Weave - actually measure engineering productivity

…in fact, one of my colleagues often struggled with this). Closed issue with unclear resolution: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/66288 It's one of the many, many, many nice little touches that Jetbrains offers over VScode, and I…

comment by solardev · 2024-11-19 · in Ask HN: How do you keep track of actions to perform at next pull?

For what it's worth; Visual Studio Code and VSCode are not the same. VSCode is MIT licensed: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/LICENSE.txt From vscodium.com: Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the…

comment by z33k · 2024-10-31 · in SSH Remoting

? The remote server (reh) is part of the vscode repo itself https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src/vs/server/... there is a vscodium and codeoss builds of it too (reh builds). The extension that invokes it isn’t, but there are a…

comment by eddythompson80 · 2024-10-31 · in SSH Remoting

…correctly ssh into a container that's set up in your `.ssh` config file. Not sure if this fixed it: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/194879

comment by DrBazza · 2024-10-31 · in SSH Remoting

... https://github.com/microsoft/vscode ? It's MIT licensed. Or are we here to start GPL vs MIT for the 10,000th time?

comment by Karrot_Kream · 2024-10-29 · in Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO

…used with forks.) The VS Code team has kept some APIs in this "preview" mode for many many years. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/59921 is just one example, which has been requested since early 2018!

comment by __float · 2024-10-21 · in Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot?

VSCode is not open source. Code-OSS is open source and is what is published at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode . VSCode is a proprietary application you download from Microsoft that is a distribution of Code-OSS with Microsoft branding…

comment by tristan957 · 2024-10-21 · in Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot?

…Microsoft. Code-OSS is provided fully free as in beer and freedom, and is currently what resides at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode . Why would Microsoft not want other AI agent extensions to get the same benefits, which would benefit…

comment by tristan957 · 2024-10-21 · in Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot?

Microsoft VSCode, as far as I know, is not purely what is published under https://github.com/microsoft/vscode .

comment by tristan957 · 2024-10-21 · in Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot?