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VS code badly needs a "do not disturb" mode that disables all this junk and more (like turn off all the pop up notifications and autocomplete suggestions as you

VS code badly needs a "do not disturb" mode that disables all this junk and more (like turn off all the pop up notifications and autocomplete suggestions as you type too). It always throws me out of flow state to have it constantly barfing and spewing info on screen as I type--like, I've been programming python for 20 years and I know exactly how the print function works, I don't need a huge spew of doc string text when I type it now. Autocomplete and such can be very handy but it's a real pain to turn it off as there are about 3 or 4 random little settings to fully disable it. Give me a do not disturb or no distraction mode that disables and enables it easily.

anonymousab 3y ago
VSCode has a silence/DND option via the bell menu in the bottom right. However it does not seem to be perfect, and I've seen notifications pop up on startup of a fresh window. Better than nothing though. It is tremendously frustrating how every single extension developer seems to think that every bit of logging (and every single update changelog) is the most important thing to every developer that has their extension installed, and that they should disrupt flow and even open tabs and take over the window context just to tell me about some new minor version patch.
adhoc_slime 3y ago
I think I'd be interested in this as well. Maybe leave me with a set of powerful macros for generating some of the boiler plate code and I'd probably be quite happy. Maybe a flag to add to zen mode, zen++, I don't know. an aside to this, I've been playing with copilot recently and its inline additions are usually so distracting while I'm trying to write some really simple conditional. When it usually doesn't read my mind, its more of an annoyance and I only really want it when I explicitly want to invoke it, which I don't think is a feature outside of enabling and disabling it.
- qbasic_forever 3y ago
  Yeah I view it as a slider or dial in my mind. Maybe a dial from 0 to 10 for level of distraction you're willing to tolerate. The more you turn it down the more it turns off all of these suggestions, autocompletes, notifications, etc.
MrPatan 3y ago
It'd be nice if it that doc window could just not steal the focus. At least with TypeScript it does.

anonymousab 3y ago

VSCode has a silence/DND option via the bell menu in the bottom right. However it does not seem to be perfect, and I've seen notifications pop up on startup of a fresh window. Better than nothing though. It is tremendously frustrating how every single extension developer seems to think that every bit of logging (and every single update changelog) is the most important thing to every developer that has their extension installed, and that they should disrupt flow and even open tabs and take over the window context just to tell me about some new minor version patch.

adhoc_slime 3y ago

I think I'd be interested in this as well. Maybe leave me with a set of powerful macros for generating some of the boiler plate code and I'd probably be quite happy. Maybe a flag to add to zen mode, zen++, I don't know. an aside to this, I've been playing with copilot recently and its inline additions are usually so distracting while I'm trying to write some really simple conditional. When it usually doesn't read my mind, its more of an annoyance and I only really want it when I explicitly want to invoke it, which I don't think is a feature outside of enabling and disabling it.

qbasic_forever 3y ago
Yeah I view it as a slider or dial in my mind. Maybe a dial from 0 to 10 for level of distraction you're willing to tolerate. The more you turn it down the more it turns off all of these suggestions, autocompletes, notifications, etc.

MrPatan 3y ago

It'd be nice if it that doc window could just not steal the focus. At least with TypeScript it does.