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  1. I tried to find an example to see what you mean, take this file - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/src/vs/editor/... The typings on the class variables are useful to have. There are also typings on the function signatures, not…
    comment by bottlepalm · 2022-10-09 · in TypeScript is now officially 10 years old
  2. It's an open ticket. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/94679
  3. I wish this issue would get addressed: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/94679 Showing fully resolved types in Intellisense would be the single largest usability enhancement they could make for me right now..
  4. ~half of that https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3A... but we all know number of bugs reported is not a very useful metric (dups, weird non reproducible configurations, not confirmed bugs, etc...) besides: VS Code…
    comment by peoplefromibiza · 2022-09-06 · in My goal of closing 10% of Emacs bugs (2020)
  5. …with no other changes. Wondering if anyone else can confirm faster builds with it hidden? [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/160118 [1] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/tasks
  6. …:o though looking at the history the number of recovery (point) releases have increased a lot https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/releases
  7. If the message is to be believed (and the source code does agree: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/d32b92bd7a49ce8667b... ), the old settings still apply, the new one may default to 'all' but the old settings will override it, so…
  8. …[0]: https://github.com/yandex/odyssey [1]: https://github.com/citusdata/pg_auto_failover [2]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/How-to-Contribute [3]: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-Compiler-Notes/
    comment by fny · 2022-07-30 · in C++ Asynchronous Framework
  9. Microsoft's server implementation is here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/src/server-mai... Open VS Code Server takes this barebones implementation and fleshes it out enough to be minimally usable:…
    comment by qbasic_forever · 2022-07-08 · in The Visual Studio Code Server
  10. …previously powering all of the remote development extensions). It's here in the main vscode repo ( https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src/vs/server ). There's vscode.dev (running vscode in the browser). That's apparently just a…
    comment by icegreentea2 · 2022-07-08 · in The Visual Studio Code Server
  11. …Qt 5: https://forum.qt.io/topic/67371/x11-forwarding-slow-on-qt-5-... Electron/Chromium: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/5243 Even my terminal emulator of choice; only fallback is software rendering. Hope you can stomach video…
    comment by jchw · 2022-06-17 · in Cool desktops don’t change
  12. …ttps://open-vsx.org/extension/xaberus/remote-oss [2] https://github.com/xaberus/vscode-remote-oss [3] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/extensions/vsc...
    comment by xaberus · 2022-06-12 · in I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium
  13. …in VS Codium, but it is against the ToS of Microsoft's Marketplace to change it to theirs (see https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/31168#issuecommen... for more details). As the linked comment also states, this is a big part of the…
  14. …build VSCode itself yourself. (But, I am not sure if that still doesn't have some non-free parts.) https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/How-to-Contribute#b...
  15. …space. Multi-cursor mode is great but it doesn't handle many cases the column selection does. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/13960 5. Fix the broken "go to" (search result, definition, etc...). In most editors when you choose…
  16. …tree is. VSCode for instance is used by millions of developers has 1.6k dependencies [1]. 1. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/network/dependencies
  17. …tried vscode a few times. I will not go back to try it again until it has emacs-style undo tree https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/20889 . Emacs bindings are no good if they do completely different things.
  18. …the language used is almost 100% certainly a troll [1] https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/165 [2] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268
  19. VS Code doesn't have 3 way merge view, yet. Looks like it's coming soon, though https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/37350
  20. …And while searching a bit, it seems that a similar UI is planned for VScode later in May 2022. Cf https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/37350 [Btw, a comment mentions that Sublime Merge already has a UI similar to the one in IntelliJ]
  21. …is so fortunate. Look at the first screenshot in the official VSCode repository, for example: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode Only about 20% of the screen is taken up by code. That may still be somewhat usable if you keep it…
  22. …than missing or incomplete error highlighting. It will look good once I've finished the code. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/74798
  23. Untruths. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/package.json -> "electron": "13.5.1", Referenced github issue seems to have only random people unaffiliated with the project team.
  24. …for professional usage. It's actually faster (or comparable at least) to other "famous editors". > https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/118308 This doesn't have any actual technical content; it's essentially a variation of Rewrite It…
  25. …was not good. And they're probably going to move to because electron is still slow and terrible. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/118308
  26. …can you diss Electron when you see something like VS Code or Atom. Because you also see things like https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/22900
    comment by int_19h · 2022-01-12 · in Is the madness ever going to end?
  27. VS Code is MIT Licensed - https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode Arguably the MIT license gives you more Freedom than the GPL'd Linux kernel or GNU utilities. Trying to draw a distinction between "evil user-unfriendly Microsoft stuff" and…
  28. …https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/shortcu... https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/127365#issuecomme...
  29. …written in Rust, and VSCode makes heavy use of WebGL, e.g. terminal. You should have gone through https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/package.json instead of main repo.
    comment by pjmlp · 2021-11-27 · in NodeOS – A Node.js Operating System
  30. There's very little native code in VS code: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode It's all typescript, even the main editor component monaco. You might be thinking of the atom editor which tried to do more native code for speed of editing…
    comment by qbasic_forever · 2021-11-27 · in NodeOS – A Node.js Operating System
  31. …well thought out, so I’ll be giving that a try (with a vim emulation plugin, naturally) [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/126310 [1] https://youtu.be/x8y_6Gg28GI
    comment by jazzyjackson · 2021-11-17 · in Why Emacs: Redux
  32. Similar VS Code issue here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/22900 HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13940014
  33. …extension that adds highlights for non-ascii non-whitelisted [2] or predefined [3] characters. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/116939 [2] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nachocab... [3]…
    comment by myfonj · 2021-11-10 · in The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor
  34. …idea. look at the top contributors for VSCode, and how many of them are employed at Microsoft: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/graphs/contributors How can you possible separate vscode "winning because of javascript" and "it has…
    comment by JoelMcCracken · 2021-11-09 · in My Emacs Lisp book is finished
  35. I couldn't find an announcement from Microsoft about this, but it did happen in this commit: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/commit/822f995357f725216...
  36. There's an upstream report at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/109176 ; it sounds like your experience will vary wildly depending on the version of electron you're using and the options it was built with.
    comment by JoshTriplett · 2021-11-03 · in Ask HN: Functioning hidpi setup on Linux, how?
  37. …revs file: https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-blame#Documentation/git-bla... Real world example: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/.git-blame-ign...
  38. …doesn't implement certain features to not compete with VS. For example, support for File Nesting. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/6328 For a while there wasn't really another way to run SQL projects outside of VS. Data Studio…
    comment by vyrotek · 2021-10-24 · in .NET Hot Reload Support via CLI
  39. …I'd be curious to see this get into mainline desktop VS Code though (and I'm not alone: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/50140 ).
    comment by qbasic_forever · 2021-10-20 · in Vscode.dev
  40. …Repositories extension." Also various interesting URLs are now possible: "For example, change https://github.com/microsoft/vscode to ' https://vscode.dev/github.com/Microsoft/vscode '. For Azure Repos, do the same. Change…
    comment by wffurr · 2021-10-20 · in Vscode.dev
  41. …only in the past 1.5 months begun work on a read-only API to even read the set of open tabs, see https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/15178 and its 93 (!) comments - development of a read-write API is still ongoing in…
    comment by btown · 2021-10-11 · in The CodeRibbon code editor plugin
  42. …return TelemetryLevel.ERROR; case TelemetryConfiguration.OFF: return TelemetryLevel.NONE; } [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/134660#issuecomme... [2] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/be75065e817ebd7b625...
  43. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/be75065e817ebd7b625... If either are 'off', it's sending no data. The new one also allows you to only send error logs, so the truth table would be more complex.
  44. …VSCode binaries from Microsoft come with a binary blob to implement DRM. From the documentation ( https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Differences-between... ): "The distribution includes a native node module that allows the extension…
  45. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/134660#issuecomme... Test if for yourself if you must. I tested with Wireshark. It does respect your previous setting if it is more restrictive.
  46. …around this messaging it's because this discussion literally happened 2 days ago. I'll reopen https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/134660 to make sure we clear up confusion.
  47. > for now Looks like it should be "forever" according to this comment: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/134660#issuecomme... But telemetry is one of those things that you can never trust a company about once it's in. Especially a…
  48. Yea, it's real, you have screenshot in description and PRs https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pulls?q=is%3Apr+telemetr...
  49. …snappy web pages can be used within Electron. All the griping above is really just ignorance. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/search?q=wasm https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/search?q=arraybuffer https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc…
    comment by goldenkey · 2021-09-30 · in Making bracket pair colorization faster
  50. And even VSCode had issues like https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/22900
    comment by int_19h · 2021-09-30 · in Making bracket pair colorization faster