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Visual Studio Code 1.11

96 points by tonerdo 9y ago

minimaxir 9y ago
The standout feature this release IMO is keyboard shortcut mapping, which I was surprised wasn't in by default since there are a lot of unmapped commands and the open-command-palette-and-type-a-few-letters is not a great workflow.
- tonerdo 9y ago
  The standout feature for me is the added support for SCM providers other than git. I also like the theming upgrades
atrudeau 9y ago
The VSCode team is releasing outstanding software at a fantastic pace, but even more outstanding are these release notes. Such a pleasure to read.
- kupiakos 9y ago
  Agreed. It still surprises me that Microsoft is running an open-source project of this quality.
btkramer9 9y ago
I was hoping to see support for larger files. I find myself having to re-open large files in a different editor on a daily basis. Otherwise a great editor and I really enjoy using it.
- chillee 9y ago
  Unluckily, due to the underlying Electron architecture, I suspect much of VSCode's issues with large files are unsolvable. I personally use vim or Sublime when working with large files.
sashk 9y ago
I miss only "project" feature -- ie ability to open multiple directories in single window. Because of this I now have 5-10 windows open and I'm getting lost...
- Tyriar 9y ago
  Hi sashk, I'm on the VS Code team. We did an initial investigation into what we would need to do to make this happen last week. It's definitely on the roadmap, more updates should come soon https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/396#issuecomment-291125000 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/396#issuecomment-...
  - sashk 9y ago
    Hi Tyriar. Your team doing great job and I understand it's on roadmap -- I just can't wait for it soon enough. Oh, and I didn't complain :) Thanks!
    - Tyriar 9y ago
      No worries, just bringing people up to date :) Unfortunately there's quite a bit to get done because everything was built around the assumption there would only ever be a single folder. In the meantime I recommend Git Project Manager, which is what I use personally to deal with multiple projects https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=felipecaputo.git-project-manager https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=felipeca...
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- minimaxir 9y ago
  There is a Project Manager extension which works well.
  - Hydraulix989 9y ago
    Do you have a link to the one you think is best?
steveklabnik 9y ago
http://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_11#_text-search-improvements http://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_11#_text-search-impr... Now using ripgrep for search! Exciting!
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Karupan 9y ago
VSCode has quickly become my goto IDE since I primarily work with TypeScript and occasionally Python/Golang. It is noticeably slower than Sublime, but the tradeoff is worth it for their tightly integrated TS support. Good to see more improvements to the debugger as well.
JonRB 9y ago
I was very pleasantly surprised by VSCode - My only gripe with it is that it can be quite hard to find information about it online because it shares a name and purpose with Visual Studio.
- saghm 9y ago
  Generally when I search "vscode [thing I want to find out about]", I get fairly good results. If you're typing out the whole "visual studio" part in your queries, maybe try abbreviating it?
russellbeattie 9y ago
Where does one submit requests for simple features/changes? I'd love for the file search shortcut (Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-F) to actually activate the search, rather than simply filling out the file search input box, then needing to press the enter/return key active. Or rather, I'd simply like an option to enable that (in case that's some horrific thing to other devs, which I'm sure it is.)
- mattbierner 9y ago
  https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/new https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/new (PRs are also always much appreciated)
  - russellbeattie 9y ago
    Awesome, thanks! (And sure! If I can work out how to implement the change myself, I'll definitely submit a PR.) Edit: The change was pretty straight forward, so I submitted the PR: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/pull/24015 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/pull/24015

96 points by tonerdo 9y ago

The standout feature this release IMO is keyboard shortcut mapping, which I was surprised wasn't in by default since there are a lot of unmapped commands and the open-command-palette-and-type-a-few-letters is not a great workflow.

tonerdo 9y ago
The standout feature for me is the added support for SCM providers other than git. I also like the theming upgrades

atrudeau 9y ago

The VSCode team is releasing outstanding software at a fantastic pace, but even more outstanding are these release notes. Such a pleasure to read.

kupiakos 9y ago
Agreed. It still surprises me that Microsoft is running an open-source project of this quality.

btkramer9 9y ago

I was hoping to see support for larger files. I find myself having to re-open large files in a different editor on a daily basis. Otherwise a great editor and I really enjoy using it.

chillee 9y ago
Unluckily, due to the underlying Electron architecture, I suspect much of VSCode's issues with large files are unsolvable. I personally use vim or Sublime when working with large files.

sashk 9y ago

I miss only "project" feature -- ie ability to open multiple directories in single window. Because of this I now have 5-10 windows open and I'm getting lost...

Tyriar 9y ago
Hi sashk, I'm on the VS Code team. We did an initial investigation into what we would need to do to make this happen last week. It's definitely on the roadmap, more updates should come soon https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/396#issuecomment-291125000 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/396#issuecomment-...
- sashk 9y ago
  Hi Tyriar. Your team doing great job and I understand it's on roadmap -- I just can't wait for it soon enough. Oh, and I didn't complain :) Thanks!
  - Tyriar 9y ago
    No worries, just bringing people up to date :) Unfortunately there's quite a bit to get done because everything was built around the assumption there would only ever be a single folder. In the meantime I recommend Git Project Manager, which is what I use personally to deal with multiple projects https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=felipecaputo.git-project-manager https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=felipeca...
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minimaxir 9y ago
There is a Project Manager extension which works well.
- Hydraulix989 9y ago
  Do you have a link to the one you think is best?

steveklabnik 9y ago

http://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_11#_text-search-improvements http://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_11#_text-search-impr... Now using ripgrep for search! Exciting!

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Karupan 9y ago

VSCode has quickly become my goto IDE since I primarily work with TypeScript and occasionally Python/Golang. It is noticeably slower than Sublime, but the tradeoff is worth it for their tightly integrated TS support. Good to see more improvements to the debugger as well.

JonRB 9y ago

I was very pleasantly surprised by VSCode - My only gripe with it is that it can be quite hard to find information about it online because it shares a name and purpose with Visual Studio.

saghm 9y ago
Generally when I search "vscode [thing I want to find out about]", I get fairly good results. If you're typing out the whole "visual studio" part in your queries, maybe try abbreviating it?

russellbeattie 9y ago

Where does one submit requests for simple features/changes? I'd love for the file search shortcut (Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-F) to actually activate the search, rather than simply filling out the file search input box, then needing to press the enter/return key active. Or rather, I'd simply like an option to enable that (in case that's some horrific thing to other devs, which I'm sure it is.)

mattbierner 9y ago
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/new https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/new (PRs are also always much appreciated)
- russellbeattie 9y ago
  Awesome, thanks! (And sure! If I can work out how to implement the change myself, I'll definitely submit a PR.) Edit: The change was pretty straight forward, so I submitted the PR: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/pull/24015 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/pull/24015