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I one time did a project entirely in notepad. Not notepad++. But the standard notepad that comes with Windows. It was a time when I got tired of frameworks and

I one time did a project entirely in notepad. Not notepad++. But the standard notepad that comes with Windows. It was a time when I got tired of frameworks and IDE's that come and go and try to offer things more conveniently. Again having to learn about some new kid on the block. Having to depend on 3rd parties. I wanted everything to be vanilla. What's interesting is how this forces you to think carefully about structuring your files, folders and code. It also allows you to leverage the Windows files explorer and have your code opened in multiple windows. I'm now using VS Code. I hate how the file explorer jumps around when closing a tab (because it tries to select whatever other tab becomes visible). VS Code also doesn't allow me to easily open my files in multiple windows. Meanwhile we have browsers that allow us to freely open windows or tabs.

krono 4y ago
This setting disables the explorer jumping: "explorer.autoReveal": false And here are some settings you can play with to get that window/instance behaviour under control (default values shown here): "window.openFilesInNewWindow": "off", "window.openFoldersInNewWindow": "default", "window.openWithoutArgumentsInNewWindow": "off", "window.restoreWindows": "all", "security.workspace.trust.untrustedFiles": "prompt"
- bartimus 4y ago
  Thanks!
lelanthran 4y ago
> I'm now using VS Code. I hate how the file explorer jumps around when closing a tab (because it tries to select whatever other tab becomes visible). VS Code also doesn't allow me to easily open my files in multiple windows. Meanwhile we have browsers that allow us to freely open windows or tabs. I use VSCode with the Vim plugin (it's not perfect: browsing undo/redo tree can lose changes, opening new tabs with `tabe` doesn't work correctly, etc), but on a widescreen monitor, I use `:vsplit` and `:split` often, and this allows me to view the code in 4 to 6 different files, aiwth all of them on the same screen at once.
- bartimus 4y ago
  Thanks!

krono 4y ago

This setting disables the explorer jumping: "explorer.autoReveal": false And here are some settings you can play with to get that window/instance behaviour under control (default values shown here): "window.openFilesInNewWindow": "off", "window.openFoldersInNewWindow": "default", "window.openWithoutArgumentsInNewWindow": "off", "window.restoreWindows": "all", "security.workspace.trust.untrustedFiles": "prompt"

bartimus 4y ago
Thanks!

lelanthran 4y ago

> I'm now using VS Code. I hate how the file explorer jumps around when closing a tab (because it tries to select whatever other tab becomes visible). VS Code also doesn't allow me to easily open my files in multiple windows. Meanwhile we have browsers that allow us to freely open windows or tabs. I use VSCode with the Vim plugin (it's not perfect: browsing undo/redo tree can lose changes, opening new tabs with `tabe` doesn't work correctly, etc), but on a widescreen monitor, I use `:vsplit` and `:split` often, and this allows me to view the code in 4 to 6 different files, aiwth all of them on the same screen at once.

bartimus 4y ago
Thanks!