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…page: https://code.visualstudio.com/api . It's also why we have very restricted API guidelines: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Extension-API-guide... We'd love to hear more about the lack of documentation you're referring to.…
comment by joaomoreno · 2020-09-23 · in The Era of Visual Studio Code -
I adore VS Code. But I still find insane it does not have an overwrite mode! [1] [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/86671 & https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/1012
comment by cek · 2020-09-22 · in The Era of Visual Studio Code -
…I completely fault Apple for this, still doesn't change it looks like a dead end for now) [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/70764
comment by hrktb · 2020-09-16 · in Nova by Panic -
…start VSCode because my internet was offline. Turns out it was an electron bug. (This issue: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/7570 ). I've been suspicious of electron ever since.
comment by jbay808 · 2020-09-04 · in Winamp Skin Museum -
…their own telemetry generally ignore the telemetry setting on the editor itself. One such example: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/49161
comment by sneak · 2020-08-28 · in Editor Overload -
…or build from source (with reference that the Microsoft specific functionality is not present: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-1... )
comment by wastedhours · 2020-08-28 · in Editor Overload -
ICYMI: This bug from 2017 was triaged, fixed and in the insider build in less than 2 weeks (!!) https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900
comment by mceachen · 2020-08-23 · in Ask HN: How to do cross platform GUI? -
An actual href'd link to the issue: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100335 Again, sorry if this isn't kosher.
comment by dutzi_ · 2020-08-12 · in VSCode feature request: Implement Google Chrome-like grouped tabs -
…ours or Microsoft's (with the caveat that you would violate their license). See this thread: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/31168#issue-24453...
comment by nhooyr · 2020-08-04 · in The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary -
…The github page for "Visual Studio Code" prominently displays "Open Source" in its title: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode I'm willing to be convinced that it's a marketing deception and "open source" should be removed but so far, I…
comment by jasode · 2020-08-04 · in The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary -
You can look at the source code on GitHub here and compile it yourself if you want... https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/master/src
comment by benbristow · 2020-08-04 · in The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary -
…hat from Visual Studio Code due to one user. Ironically the issue currently has 18 down-votes. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268
comment by sharken · 2020-08-02 · in Facebook hate-speech boycott had little effect on revenue -
…requests, most of the non-VSCode-specific feature requests have been solved (somewhere) by Emacs: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3A... I will say that this was way worse a couple of years ago. They seem to have…
comment by bananaface · 2020-07-16 · in Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study -
…up with another word/phrase for whites to be guilty about, and therefore need to be changed. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268
comment by gruez · 2020-07-07 · in Red Hat to remove contentious terms like master and slave from its source code -
…it immediately and make it your top priority. To me this is almost equally offensive as a swastika. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268 I didn't know that Santa Claus was a religious symbol, I celebrate with Santa and I do not…
comment by TravHatesMe · 2020-07-05 · in Internet mob justice can easily destroy innocent lives (2019) -
…like source control, menus, language configuration - the full protocol is defined here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/master/src/vs/workb... We aim to integrate with that back-end extension host process - in other words, to…
comment by bryphe · 2020-06-24 · in Onivim 2: Lightweight, Modal Code Editor -
…and that (apparently) is a fair bit of work to bring to ARM (though it's being worked on) [0] [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/6442
comment by ryan-allen · 2020-06-22 · in ARM Mac Impact on Intel -
I don't think VS Code actually supports background color styles for syntax highlighting. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/3429 I ran into this trying to do a Code theme a few months ago. (My favorite light theme -- and I am…
comment by chipotle_coyote · 2020-06-12 · in Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea? -
Which issue is that? This was one of my big ones: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/23931 Cramming literally everything into that tiny sidebar and making you constantly resize it when you switch between files, search, git is one…
comment by dflock · 2020-05-29 · in Folding-markdown: Adds header folding for Markdown files in Atom -
…of magnitude lower latency than vscode[2] [1] https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/ [2] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/27378
comment by gruez · 2020-05-19 · in Electron 9.0 -
Yup. I'm just shocked that https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/76594#issuecommen... has been open for more than year now. Two finger scroll that lags for up to 1 second! Imagine the uproar if Apple introduced this bug into XCode and…
comment by taliesinb · 2020-05-19 · in Electron 9.0 -
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_45#_faster-syntax-h... https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/95958
comment by WorldMaker · 2020-05-13 · in Create Diagrams in VS Code with Draw.io -
…a part of VS Code codebase. Perhaps, this is it (though, I very well might be wrong on this, too): https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/master/src/vs/workb... .
comment by ablekh · 2020-05-07 · in GitHub Codespaces -
Could be worse: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/32405 the famous “we changed the names of common git operations, oh boy was that a bad idea” bug.
comment by hprotagonist · 2020-04-29 · in VS Code was lost on shutdown with pending update (2018) -
…items could be included, though the installer code seems to be included in the source code: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/master/build/win32/...
comment by darrenkopp · 2020-04-29 · in VS Code was lost on shutdown with pending update (2018) -
…Google Chrome with the source on GitHub analogous to Chromium. Explanation from Microsoft employee: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-1... Visual Studio Code license: https://code.visualstudio.com/license Official…
comment by gpm · 2020-04-29 · in VS Code was lost on shutdown with pending update (2018) -
[citation needed] Telemetry is plainly visible in the VS Code source: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/8ffcb49f4fbeb250405...
comment by efdee · 2020-04-29 · in VS Code was lost on shutdown with pending update (2018) -
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode MIT Licenced Am I missing something?
comment by mwill · 2020-04-29 · in VS Code was lost on shutdown with pending update (2018) -
…a chance to misinform. VS Code is open source. It's MIT licensed. You can get the source code here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
comment by AshleyGrant · 2020-04-29 · in VS Code was lost on shutdown with pending update (2018) -
…yesterday it was added to the backlog) [0]. This will be very useful in persisting terminals. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/90696
comment by dfee · 2020-04-28 · in Tmux for Mere Mortals -
…* You can file issues and provide feedback as we try to improve continously https://github.com/microsoft/vscode * Feel free to ping me @isidorn on either of those or on Twitter. And let me know if we can help more. I wish you all the
comment by isidorn · 2020-04-20 · in Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare? -
…VS Code repo was as simple as adding a dev dependency to `deemon` and adding a new `watchd` script: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/4e8408d4c4dafae88f7... . You can try it out right now using `npx`: simply run `npx deemon BUILD…
comment by joaomoreno · 2020-04-17 · in Show HN: deemon, run a process in the background and attach to it -
…actually doing. I.e. what do 'refresh' and 'sync' do in VS Code? The consequences could be dire: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/32405 > reverting a commit is 2-3 clicks, or a whole lot of typing. Git revert is a single command;…
comment by jldugger · 2020-04-13 · in Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? -
…of editors since at least the 80s. Keyboard macros in other editors has saved me 100s of hours. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/4490
comment by greggman3 · 2020-04-13 · in Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? -
…just impossible to search. [1] https://www.howtogeek.com/202825/what%E2%80%99s-the-differen... [2] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Differences-between...
comment by correct_horse · 2020-04-01 · in Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code -
…open base upon which VSCode is built. VS Code's branding, telemetry and more are closed-source. See https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-1... for a full explanation.
comment by correct_horse · 2020-03-31 · in Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code -
I mean, do they think we are idiots? Visual Studio Code is clearly open source with an MIT license. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode EDIT: OH WAIT - I see - they forked at least parts of Visual Studio Code and then open sourced it. In…
comment by outside1234 · 2020-03-31 · in Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code -
…(likewise these are not licensed). Almost exactly like Red Hat Linux compared to CentOS. See https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-1...
comment by nailer · 2020-03-31 · in Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code -
…there. [1] https://code.visualstudio.com/ [2] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/go [3] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode [4] https://www.jetbrains.com/go/
comment by guessmyname · 2020-03-30 · in Choosing Between Rust or Go? -
…that'd be amazing. There is some projects[1] going on but using some non-viable workaround [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/70764
comment by burgerquizz · 2020-03-18 · in New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support -
…Atom, well, wasn't. If commit activity graphs are really a meaningful measure, look at VSCode's: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/graphs/commit-activity The number of commits per, uh, date unit (the graph is not super clear on that…
comment by chipotle_coyote · 2020-03-17 · in NPM Is Joining GitHub -
…there was huge meme thread going on in that issue or in reddit/hn when that thing was happening. 1: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268
comment by vhakulinen · 2020-02-17 · in NPM: 429 Too Many Requests -
…supplied in the Python extension. I LOVE this feedback! Keep it coming (though entering issues https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python would be ideal) Yes, as conner4312 VS Code is investigating how to better incorporate a juypter…
comment by greazer · 2020-01-30 · in Jupyter notebooks in the IDE: VS Code vs. PyCharm -
…like vi mode aren't inherited. (Disclaimer: I work on VS Code, but am not working on notebooks) 1. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/88243
comment by connor4312 · 2020-01-30 · in Jupyter notebooks in the IDE: VS Code vs. PyCharm -
…the author of calva asking for more than just simple :before and :after line decorators in vscode. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/3220#issuecomment... Has calva been able to better handle inline errors and large results better?…
comment by ledgerdev · 2020-01-25 · in Clojure – Fascinated, Disappointed, Astonished (2016) -
…best to show some data inline, but unfortunately vs-code doesn't support displaying inline results https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/3220
comment by ledgerdev · 2020-01-24 · in Clojure – Fascinated, Disappointed, Astonished (2016) -
…bad style will force you away to spend time with your family. As for the Santa Hat “controversy” ( https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268 ), I think it’s utterly ridiculous. Merry Christmas
comment by jpxw · 2019-12-25 · in Ask HN: Are you offended by the HN Christmas styles? -
(Incase someone doesn't get the reference: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87419 )
comment by shultays · 2019-12-24 · in Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah and Happy New Year -
For anyone confused here is the original that this is referencing: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268
comment by neaden · 2019-12-21 · in I'm Buddhist and I'm Offended -
Original ticket: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268
comment by tdons · 2019-12-20 · in Visual Studio Code repository is open again