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It's everything a scroll bar does and more. Yea you can kind of get to know the structure of your code which is nice and sometimes when I open up a file and the

by pixie_ 10y ago

It's everything a scroll bar does and more. Yea you can kind of get to know the structure of your code which is nice and sometimes when I open up a file and the mini-map is dense I already know I'm getting into a big file. One of the most useful features for me (not sure if VS Code has this), but when I double-click/select a word, all other words with the same name are highlighted in the minimap. It's crazy useful for me, like a double-click/search/find all instances, it helps me jump around code very quickly.

eduren 10y ago
Playing around with the minimap now, and disappointingly it doesn't seem to render the text selection (at least not at my dpi). Was looking forward to that as well. If you haven't tried vscode however, it's always had selection markers inside the real scrollbar.
- Tyriar 10y ago
  Hi eduren, I'm on the VS Code team. The minimap this release is just a preview focused on getting the performance aspects of it right. You can read about what's to come at the bottom of the minimap section https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_10#_preview-minimap https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_10#_preview-minimap
  - SiVal 10y ago
    Tyriar, thanks SO much for minimap! I use multiple editors. I mark up some of my files with designs that can be seen from a "high altitude" minimap view, and I've had to use a different editor for those files until now. With minimap, I can also edit those files with VSCode and eliminate one other editor. I hope you'll add a variety of preferences for it, so users can decide for themselves how much "weight" they want to bear and for which features. I'd like to be able to toggle it on/off, have it show highlights, keep the viewport highlighted even when the mouse is not in the minimap, and adjust the width (sometimes I have more room, sometimes I have a VERY long file, etc.). SEPARATE ISSUE: I wish the "Panel" (output, terminal, etc.) could be positioned side-by-side with the code instead of being fixed on the bottom, where it covers up half of your code while leaving the right side of the screen empty.

by pixie_ 10y ago

eduren 10y ago

Playing around with the minimap now, and disappointingly it doesn't seem to render the text selection (at least not at my dpi). Was looking forward to that as well. If you haven't tried vscode however, it's always had selection markers inside the real scrollbar.

Tyriar 10y ago
Hi eduren, I'm on the VS Code team. The minimap this release is just a preview focused on getting the performance aspects of it right. You can read about what's to come at the bottom of the minimap section https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_10#_preview-minimap https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_10#_preview-minimap
- SiVal 10y ago
  Tyriar, thanks SO much for minimap! I use multiple editors. I mark up some of my files with designs that can be seen from a "high altitude" minimap view, and I've had to use a different editor for those files until now. With minimap, I can also edit those files with VSCode and eliminate one other editor. I hope you'll add a variety of preferences for it, so users can decide for themselves how much "weight" they want to bear and for which features. I'd like to be able to toggle it on/off, have it show highlights, keep the viewport highlighted even when the mouse is not in the minimap, and adjust the width (sometimes I have more room, sometimes I have a VERY long file, etc.). SEPARATE ISSUE: I wish the "Panel" (output, terminal, etc.) could be positioned side-by-side with the code instead of being fixed on the bottom, where it covers up half of your code while leaving the right side of the screen empty.