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  1. indeed, thanks: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/128465#issuecomme...
    comment by mzs · 2021-09-29 · in Making bracket pair colorization faster
  2. Igelau linked to this thread: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/128465#issuecomme... In it, CoenraadS (the extension developer) writes "I follow this thread with interest, my extension is something that grew a bit out of control,…
    comment by jffry · 2021-09-29 · in Making bracket pair colorization faster
  3. …it. The quote above is from the maintainer. Looks like he is happy to let it go! Quote source: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/128465#issuecomme...
    comment by schrute · 2021-09-29 · in Making bracket pair colorization faster
  4. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/128465#issuecomme...
    comment by Igelau · 2021-09-29 · in Making bracket pair colorization faster
  5. …post here. We openly discussed various approaches with CoenraadS and other extension authors here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/128465#issuecomme...
    comment by Gehinnn · 2021-09-29 · in Making bracket pair colorization faster
  6. …they've just not enabled telemetry by default I assume. [1] Same folder in the original repo: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src/vs/platfor...
    comment by speps · 2021-09-29 · in How OpenVSCode Server turns VS Code into a web IDE
  7. VS Code is here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode The extension that enables Jupyter Notebooks is here: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-jupyter
    comment by Ekrub · 2021-09-23 · in JupyterLab Desktop App now available
  8. Here how WebGL is used for the terminal in VSCode, https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/85971 Or how Rust is used for search via ripgrep. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-ripgrep
    comment by pjmlp · 2021-09-16 · in Windows 11: Just say no
  9. To be fair it was partially related to a bug in Chromium, and was fixed in 2017 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900
    comment by greggturkington · 2021-09-16 · in Windows 11: Just say no
  10. …from Chromium to dodge issues running on older platforms. Edit: libcxx from Chromium, not libstdc++ https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/129360#issue-952350... > The increase in bundle size is significantly small (~10MB).
    comment by password4321 · 2021-09-13 · in Transmission torrent client ported to C++
  11. Similarly, VSCode faced the same issue: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268 which they then apologised for: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87440 I wonder if the difference in response due to 8 years of shift in…
    comment by rgoulter · 2021-07-29 · in Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? (2017)
  12. …you don’t keep unsaved buffers and changes for long periods of time it is at least fairly safe... https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/test/smoke/src...
    comment by jchw · 2021-07-21 · in BBEdit 14
  13. …when updating VSCode which caused it to delete the contents of my unsaved/untitled document. [0] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/69972
    comment by losvedir · 2021-07-21 · in BBEdit 14
  14. What VSCode use is JSONC, only allow comments https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100688
    comment by fomine3 · 2021-07-20 · in The Goals of XML at 25: and the one change that XML now needs
  15. …Just do Ctrl+K, O or on a Mac Cmd+K, O. You can track when this feature is implemented here - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/8171
    comment by wayneftw · 2021-07-14 · in Monodraw: ASCII art editor for the Mac
  16. The specific comment since HN removed it from the URL. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/6328#issuecomment...
    comment by vyrotek · 2021-07-11 · in An individual offered $500 or a Nintendo Switch for an ignored VS Code request
  17. …Here are a couple of public GitHub issues about dictation support in vscode: - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/40976 - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/117980#issuecomme...
    comment by lunixbochs · 2021-07-02 · in Google reports soaring attrition among Black women
  18. …signed up for"). [0]: https://github.community/t/release-notifications-from-starre... [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/125951
    comment by asaibx · 2021-07-01 · in GitHub now showing releases from starred repos in main activity dashboard
  19. …say it's considered an 'ideal' codebase, but it's definitely a large and well-maintained one. [0] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/
    comment by yarinr · 2021-06-10 · in Ask HN: What's a good TS codebase to learn from?
  20. I remember this discussion https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900
    comment by gregors · 2021-06-08 · in CodePerfect 95 – A fast IDE for Go
  21. …Workspace Trust to prevent extensions from running untrusted code by merely opening a directory. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/120251#issuecomme...
    comment by kam · 2021-05-14 · in Using Rust Macros to exfiltrate secrets
  22. Why are people using this editor? It is unclear what data is being sent to Microsoft: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/47284 There are many other and better editors.
    comment by fksum · 2021-04-15 · in New GitHub themes for VS Code
  23. …just recording an input-flow. > because so far there has been 5 years of whining and 0 patches: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/4490 Which only means it has no priority. But considering there are 4.7k open issues and 103k…
    comment by slightwinder · 2021-03-21 · in Emacs is the 2D Command-line Interface
  24. …what this "Open Source" thing is, because so far there has been 5 years of whining and 0 patches: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/4490
    comment by sedachv · 2021-03-21 · in Emacs is the 2D Command-line Interface
  25. …as well, I find it viscerally unpleasant to use solely due to this. There's already a ticket: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/27378
    comment by hedgehog · 2021-03-02 · in Speed Is the Killer Feature
  26. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/77140
    comment by The_rationalist · 2021-02-23 · in Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools
  27. …it does not bundle ffmpeg because doing so would "infect"/burden it with heaps of GPL requirements. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100599 , https://ffmpeg.org/legal.html
    comment by meetups323 · 2021-02-20 · in Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows
  28. For context: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Differences-between...
    comment by shuntress · 2021-02-12 · in Visual Studio Code Comes to Raspberry Pi
  29. …a bug that came up in the final days of testing[0]. Insiders has been rock solid for me though. 0: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/115646
    comment by easton · 2021-02-05 · in Visual Studio Code version 1.53
  30. …issues, is that VS Code needs a good hard look at its keyboard and text processing model. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/14028 [2] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/14093
    comment by signal11 · 2021-01-18 · in The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla
  31. …VS Code. For example -- this list from an author of a VS Code plugin that emulates Sublime[1]. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/3776
    comment by signal11 · 2021-01-17 · in The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla
  32. …for VScode. > fully embrace libre route VScode is open source and MIT licensed, here's the repo: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode Someone would need to explain to me what values I'm forgoing in order to use this. Although I should warn…
    comment by antonvs · 2021-01-17 · in The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla
  33. …I personally would hope that Windows gets open sourced, but I'm not holding my breath. [0]: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode [1]: https://github.com/microsoft [2]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/ P.S. Can we not use the…
    comment by colejohnson66 · 2021-01-14 · in Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2
  34. …being (paraphrasing) "just read the source code" when asked what kind of data is collected. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/47284
    comment by alpaca128 · 2021-01-12 · in I received my first donation on my open-source side project
  35. …telemetry, as opposed to opt-in telemetry, usually violates GDPR. This issue is being discussed at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/47284 VSCodium is recommended as an alternative https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
    comment by johndough · 2021-01-12 · in I received my first donation on my open-source side project
  36. There’s actually a request to add this functionality to VSCode: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/110115
    comment by VyperCard · 2020-12-29 · in Code Browser
  37. VSCode is a Microsoft product: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode - their core developers work at Microsoft
    comment by sciencewolf · 2020-12-19 · in Ask HN: How free editors such as Atom, Brackets, VS Code are monetized?
  38. We have a guide for it in microsoft/vscode: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Selfhosting-on-Wind...
    comment by joaomoreno · 2020-12-17 · in GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL
  39. If your reluctance to use VSCode on Mac is related to terminal lag, check out this post for a fix. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/105446#issuecomme... I tend to use VSCode and/or Sublime Text myself
    comment by uberman · 2020-12-15 · in Ask HN: What’s as good on Mac as VS Code is on Windows for development?
  40. Whether one at a time is okay still depends on the app... https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/22900
    comment by int_19h · 2020-12-08 · in Qt 6.0
  41. * Firstly, may I ask are you using Vim extension? * Can you please follow instructions listed here https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Performance-Issues#... to profile the renderer process when that happens (more accurately start the…
    comment by rebornix · 2020-11-24 · in VSCode memory leak issue marked “out-of-scope”
  42. Go to the VS Code repo. It's written in TS and its one of the best examples of a well written TS app. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
    comment by stopyellingatme · 2020-11-20 · in TypeScript 4.1
  43. …lag from macOS code signing that affects me personally, please check out this GitHub issue: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/105446#issuecomme...
    comment by rubatuga · 2020-11-13 · in Forbidden Commands to Speed Up macOS
  44. …underscore or the next part of a camel case name). 5. Well this I can't do but never needed to. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/84297#issuecommen...
    comment by 0-_-0 · 2020-11-10 · in Why are so many coders still using Vim and Emacs?
  45. …of the criteria Visual Studio Code used to evaluate ripgrep was its permissive license.[1] [1] - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/19983#issuecommen...
    comment by burntsushi · 2020-10-30 · in Software licensing and my opposition to copyleft
  46. …that resulted in some non-offensive comments within those issues being deleted as well. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87440 Surely you can't continue to claim that open source communities do not suffer from such issues, now,…
    comment by wrsh07 · 2020-10-29 · in I Violated a Code of Conduct
  47. …than a week ago, they close the issue. The quest for the perfect issue grooming continues. Example: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/86409#issuecommen...
    comment by diggan · 2020-10-21 · in Issue Grooming
  48. …the backlog milestone for this, which acts as the folder of issues they will eventually work on. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/milestone/8
    comment by jayflux · 2020-10-21 · in Issue Grooming
  49. Sure, there you have it: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3...
    comment by eznzt · 2020-10-21 · in Issue Grooming
  50. …[3] https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2020/06/09/go-extension [4] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
    comment by jodrellblank · 2020-09-26 · in Toward a “modern” Emacs