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Microsoft and TypeScript team are doing amazing work with this editor! There are so many interesting features in it, gave it a shot few weeks ago and was really
by Philipp__ 10y ago
Microsoft and TypeScript team are doing amazing work with this editor! There are so many interesting features in it, gave it a shot few weeks ago and was really satisfied. And it is probably the first electron app that didn't feel like rest of the bunch, that are pretty much hogs and not very responsive (especially when we talk about editors and IDEs).
But you know, I can't hang Emacs and Vim on the wall and leave them there. It just got so much under my skin, and I got so much used to them that using GUI editor after few years of them just feels odd. And I use them for 5 years. I can't imagine how it is for people that used them for 20+ years...
- pryelluw 10y agoI've been using it since 1.2 and it works nicely. Very stable.
- z3t4 10y agowhat would something 10x better than vim/emacs/vscode look like ?
- Analemma_ 10y agoGary Bernhardt's "A Whole New World" had a cool vision for what the future of editors might look like: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world
- nathcd 10y agoAnd here's[1] a project inspired by Gary's talk to design and implement a new escape protocol and a new virtual terminal to support these sorts of use-cases. (I'm not involved with the project.) [1] https://github.com/withoutboats/notty https://github.com/withoutboats/notty
- voltagex_ 10y agoIsn't there a point of diminishing returns there? Also, isn't that a bit subjective? I'm glad VS Code exists, because it helps push other projects to be better.
- codycraven 10y agoI've been using the Vim extension for quite a while and it's become fairly robust. I think it bests jVi in Netbeans.
- ChrisLTD 10y agoWhich vim extension in particular?
- adt2bt 10y agoNot GP but probably VSCodeVim
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- gosukiwi 10y agoDoes it support visual block mode now?
- johnfn 10y agoVSCodeVim does support visual block mode.
- FrancoDiaz 10y agoI really miss leaders though.
- divbit 10y ago>But you know, I can't hang Emacs and Vim on the wall and leave them there. I never got the hang of Emacs, but there is a decent vim extension (there are a bunch) called vimStyle which at least gets you the vim-like code navigation.
- Philipp__ 10y agoI had really hard time for 3 months (after using vim for 4 years). I just uninstalled everything else, and first week was painful, but it was really fun since I wanted to learn Lisp/Scheme, so I touched ELisp while playing/tweaking with emacs. After that I just couldn't go back to Vim. I started tweaking and digging. The point of Emacs is that you can make it be whatever you want. It can be both amazingly ugly and beautiful, minimal or heavy like an OS. In the end, what kept me on Emacs to be sincere was auto indentation and perfect completion system. I always had to tweak and fix those things in Vim. In Emacs, nothing, I just write code (yeah, navigating code in Vim is faster, but Emacs has some really neat ides like rectangles).
- Scarbutt 10y agoSince you used vim for 4 years, why didn't you add evil to emacs?
- sigzero 10y agoIt's not the same. Close but no.
- Philipp__ 10y agoGood question. I dare to say EVIL is best Vim alternative. It's 98% percent there. But it felt wrong using Vim in Emacs. Then I wasn't using Vim nor Emacs, because I would mix commands from both (sometimes I would use C-s sometimes /?). So I told myself, if I felt comfortable using Vim, then why don't I try and learn Emacs so I can be comfortable in it too? And now after 6 months in Emacs I got to that standard productivity point in terms of navigating and chunking out the code. But the best aspect of Emacs for me personaly is, I want to do something with text, I just select it, press M-x, enter the word(noun,verb of thing I want to do with it) press TAB, see list of available commands and voila! It amazes me how many options there are in Emacs! Wonderful really!