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…give you an example of what kinds of issues using web tech for desktop-like experience can cause: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900 (Yes, I'm well aware that they fixed it. The point is that the offending code needed to be…
comment by int_19h · 2018-09-25 · in PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018 -
…like with it. [1] own or own enough rights. Before any PRs are accepted, you need to sign the CLA https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/Contributor-License...
comment by oliwarner · 2018-09-18 · in You Think the Visual Studio Code Binary You Use Is Open Source? Think Again -
…pretty sure someone had forked VSCode like ungoogled-chromium but I can't find the repository. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/17996 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17346492
comment by huntie · 2018-09-18 · in You Think the Visual Studio Code Binary You Use Is Open Source? Think Again -
…to this as my daily driver, but there's some small things, like Django Template formatting ( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/46468 ) that have yet to be fixed/working.
comment by zdware · 2018-09-06 · in Python in Visual Studio Code -
That... hasn't been my experience: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/18549 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/16858 Maybe I just care a little too much about code folding, but after origami.el in emacs and atom and vim's…
comment by kiaulen · 2018-09-06 · in Python in Visual Studio Code -
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/57851#issuecommen...
comment by castlegloom · 2018-09-04 · in Marketplace.visualstudio.com is down -
There used to be at least one issue about this, and of course it has been fixed by now: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/16131
comment by yuhong · 2018-08-27 · in VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing -
…couldn’t write my own web browser with the default homepage set to Google without permission... [0] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/commit/f1d0c1d88417f85ec...
comment by scolby33 · 2018-08-27 · in VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing -
…is not up for debate. You of course don't need to share the same ethical framework as me. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/commit/f1d0c1d88417f85ec...
comment by jakear · 2018-08-27 · in VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing -
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/commit/f1d0c1d88417f85ec... This is the revert of the mistakenly committed code. In this repository's readme there is a link to a thread where (presumably the author, I didn't check) says that the public…
comment by jakear · 2018-08-27 · in VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing -
What's this file then? https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
comment by dwild · 2018-08-27 · in VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing -
…source code is MIT licensed and I think you are mistaken about whether that is in dispute or not. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-2...
comment by yebyen · 2018-08-27 · in VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing -
According to https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-1... > The cool thing about all of this is that you have the choice to use the Visual Studio Code branded product under our license or you can build a version of the…
comment by rootlocus · 2018-08-27 · in VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing -
Related issue: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/34739
comment by mi_lk · 2018-08-25 · in The Future of Notebooks: Lessons from JupyterCon -
…that would be huge, winpty (while I'm really thankful it exists) is a PITA in practice, see e.g. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/45693 .
comment by borekb · 2018-08-17 · in Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty) -
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/16208 Try that (I haven’t yet) - let me know if it works out for you! I was just wanting something similar the other day and this is on my to-try list
comment by gwicksted · 2018-07-21 · in Ndb – An improved debugging experience for Node.js -
…either. The GitHub repo for VScode doesn't have any C in it; infact it doesn't have much but JS/TS: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
comment by dabber · 2018-07-19 · in Qt Creator 4.7.0 released -
…are using: https://stackshare.io/stacks Find some open source projects by them, and have a look: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
comment by m3tr0s · 2018-07-14 · in Ask HN: What are the code bases like at the really big product companies? -
> See for yourselves: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1884 - some juicy posts have been deleted/edited since though obviously can't tell about the edited ones, but there's not a single "juicy" comment by someone from Microsoft…
comment by detaro · 2018-06-27 · in PostmarketOS is moving to Gitlab -
…customise the blue status bar that I think I saw true "spirit" of that company. See for yourselves: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1884 - some juicy posts have been deleted/edited since though PS. I moved all my 80 Open Source…
comment by rstn · 2018-06-27 · in PostmarketOS is moving to Gitlab -
The telemetry usage is directly in the MIT source: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/f05063d13da8c6112ed... The telemetry extension is open source too: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-extension-telemetry And you can unpack the…
comment by bpicolo · 2018-06-19 · in Want free VS Code? Build it from source -
…to fulfill that requirement was once added to the open source version, and then quickly removed. 0: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-wiki/pull/30#issuecommen... 1: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/commits/master/product.j...
comment by pritambaral · 2018-06-19 · in Want free VS Code? Build it from source -
…proprietary software than it does as an open-source license. If you, instead, clone the git repo at https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode , you'll find that the repo is under an MIT license ( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/LI…
comment by pdpi · 2018-06-19 · in Want free VS Code? Build it from source -
It already is MIT: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/6b8ea727a918c6d646e...
comment by notjosh · 2018-06-19 · in Want free VS Code? Build it from source -
…and whatever you get from source. Apparently at the very least, the contents of product.json ( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/product.json... ) defining names are different.
comment by icegreentea2 · 2018-06-19 · in Want free VS Code? Build it from source -
…& Chromium, Oracle JDK & OpenJDK, Xamarin Studio & MonoDevelop, etc. [1] Seems fair play to me. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-1...
comment by kozhevnikov · 2018-06-19 · in Want free VS Code? Build it from source -
I'm not getting it, what part is not free? All the code is at https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode under the MIT license and you can download a prebuild version, which is also free to use.
comment by mschuetz · 2018-06-19 · in Want free VS Code? Build it from source -
…or VS Code [1]. Users discover this stuff by watching network traffic, not through code audits. 1: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/16131
comment by millstone · 2018-06-11 · in Alternatives to Google Products -
…trust," https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/mssql-server-linux/ https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-five-linux-contributor-mic...…
comment by chomp · 2018-06-06 · in Why Open Source Software Is Moving to GitLab After Microsoft-GitHub Deal -
…it has a mind. It doesn't. [0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-five-linux-contributor-mic... [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING...
comment by daniel-levin · 2018-06-04 · in Microsoft acquires Github -
VsCode is open source too: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
comment by Totoradio · 2018-06-04 · in Microsoft acquires Github -
…projects recently. They're the highest contributing organization on Github I believe. I mean... https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
comment by brandoncordell · 2018-06-04 · in Chris, Nat and Satya's Calldeck Regarding Microsoft and GitHub -
…run a really tight ship and all it takes is to point it in the right direction. Just look at this: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/50477 It's basically their May 2017 release plan for VS Code 1.24. Fully public. My guess is that…
comment by oblio · 2018-06-04 · in GitLab is open core, GitHub is closed source (2016) -
…metadata every time you save a file. If you want to see this fixed, please post about the issue in https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/49021 .
comment by nickjj · 2018-05-26 · in Command Line and Windows Subsystem for Linux – The Windows 10 April Update -
…tps://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/04/25/bing-settings... ), and there's a setting to disable it: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/49161
comment by Guillaume86 · 2018-05-04 · in VSCode still sends search keystrokes to Microsoft with telemetry disabled -
Related https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/49159 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/49161
comment by msoad · 2018-05-04 · in VSCode opens URL without user's permission -
…figure out if any extension is consuming extensive CPU. This was added quite recently [2]. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/1638acdd62d94bc4d99... [2] https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_19#_running-extensi...
comment by alexdima · 2018-04-27 · in Keep VS Code from Becoming an IDE -
…that last cursor at the beginning of the line - and the other ones at the indentation level (see https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/14919#issuecommen... ) (Disclaimer: Author of the mentioned plugin, so I am heavily biased against…
comment by kwood · 2018-04-23 · in VS Code can do that? -
Maybe not for long: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/34442
comment by lloeki · 2018-04-23 · in Hyper 2, Electron based terminal -
Check out this: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/23931#issuecommen... Add this to your settings: ``` "search.location": "panel", ``` Not perfect, but it's a start.
comment by omn1 · 2018-04-21 · in VS Code can do that? -
…One of them even shows up in a version Milestone list (which Changelogs and Release Notes link to): https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/milestone/54?closed=1
comment by WorldMaker · 2018-03-22 · in Visual Studio Code silently fixed RCE through DNS rebinding -
From that page there's a trail of links to this explanation for the licensing: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-1... TLDR: Visual Studio Code is a Microsoft-branded product that is made available to users under a…
comment by yorwba · 2018-03-06 · in Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based text editor -
…head that's telling me something isn't right :D As for VSCode I just wish they get on with this - https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/14909 It's the only thing for me that's making VSCode just one feature away from being the best…
comment by _hao · 2018-02-08 · in Visual Studio Code January 2018 Update (version 1.20) -
…as AV software: 1. shall not be CPU consuming. That famous 13% CPU consumption on blinking caret ( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900 ) is not acceptable. 2. shall be as compact as possible. 3. shall follow modern UI trends…
comment by c-smile · 2018-02-08 · in LCUI – A small C library for building user interfaces with XML and CSS -
…time, especially when you feel typing is slow? It would be awesome if you can provide more info in https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues and we'd love to fix the problem. Laggy typing/navigating is always a high-priority bug to fix.
comment by rebornix · 2018-02-07 · in Visual Studio Live Share Preview -
Several solutions/workarounds, explanations, and links to lower-level bugs are here https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/35675 I would explain more if I knew - but I haven't read it. I just found the solution and applied it.
comment by folknor · 2018-01-26 · in Why font rendering sucks in electron based editors? -
…was used before. GIF animations were proposed, but AFAIK never actually used. Here's the GH issue: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900
comment by mynameisvlad · 2018-01-10 · in The State of Atom's Performance -
…it? I've not heard this myself, and the GitHub page says there's no native code in the main repo: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
comment by stupidcar · 2018-01-10 · in The State of Atom's Performance -
…to VSCode, pretty much the only way to get my changes upstream is to submit pull requests directly to github.com/Microsoft/vscode. Compare to the tiered approach, where I notice someone is an active and "trusted" contributor, so I submit…
comment by carussell · 2017-11-18 · in Microsoft and GitHub team up to take Git virtual file system to macOS, Linux -
…<political-request> Anyone else who shares that frustration, please vote here if you get a chance: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/10121 </political-request>
comment by TimTheTinker · 2017-11-11 · in 10 years of love for Emacs undone by a week of VSCode