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I want an "I'm adult" switch, which will stop bombing me with popups until I press Tab (for completion) or F1 (for help). It's unusable, because it distracts o

I want an "I'm adult" switch, which will stop bombing me with popups until I press Tab (for completion) or F1 (for help). It's unusable, because it distracts on almost every keypress with popups, type hints, and additional characters inserted. Sometimes, these popups even block the CODE I working on. It similar to browsing without an ad-blocker. I want a helpful and predictable editor, not a kaleidoscope. I don't want to think "hey, what happened?" after a key press.

_a_a_a_ 3y ago
I can't speak for this particular editor, but Visual Studio once shipped with a mode for C# I think it was, that was like a neon light show. It was unbearable. Also SSMS it has full-on intellisense or nothing at all, and having it on; it just gets in the way. It's like MS only know "my way or the highway". I realise this is tangential to the subject but I think it bears repeating: respect the user.
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billforsternz 3y ago
Does it try to help you type "if" once you press 'i' ? I find it really weird that (some) code editors do that. Also adding )}] after I type ({ or [, and even worse a second " or ' after I type one " or '. I realise there are ways of turning this sort of thing off (usually), but I miss the days when such things never ever happened. Edit: I just looked at the project's main website and the auto help provided half way through typing "self" which they are obviously very proud of looks like my worst nightmare. A few weekends back I did some "unplugged" C programming just with Notepad++ rather than Visual Studio and honestly I felt it was a key step to overcoming the migraine issues I've been having lately.
- tmtvl 3y ago
  I like autopairs (as those are called) but I really hate it when I type the terminator and the editor inserts another terminator. That's why I gave up on VS Codium after giving it a second try.

_a_a_a_ 3y ago

I can't speak for this particular editor, but Visual Studio once shipped with a mode for C# I think it was, that was like a neon light show. It was unbearable. Also SSMS it has full-on intellisense or nothing at all, and having it on; it just gets in the way. It's like MS only know "my way or the highway". I realise this is tangential to the subject but I think it bears repeating: respect the user.

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billforsternz 3y ago

Does it try to help you type "if" once you press 'i' ? I find it really weird that (some) code editors do that. Also adding )}] after I type ({ or [, and even worse a second " or ' after I type one " or '. I realise there are ways of turning this sort of thing off (usually), but I miss the days when such things never ever happened. Edit: I just looked at the project's main website and the auto help provided half way through typing "self" which they are obviously very proud of looks like my worst nightmare. A few weekends back I did some "unplugged" C programming just with Notepad++ rather than Visual Studio and honestly I felt it was a key step to overcoming the migraine issues I've been having lately.

tmtvl 3y ago
I like autopairs (as those are called) but I really hate it when I type the terminator and the editor inserts another terminator. That's why I gave up on VS Codium after giving it a second try.