vscode

To elaborate in more (possibly excruciating) detail: It's very rare for anyone on GitHub to do the sort of tiered collaboration that the Linux kernel uses. If, say, I want to contribute to VSCode, pretty much the only way to get my changes upstream is to submit pull requests directly to github.com/Microsoft/vscode. Compare to the tiered approach, where I notice someone is an active and "trusted" contributor, so I submit my changes to their fork, they accept them, and then those changes eventually make their way into the canonical repo at some future merge point. That's virtually unheard of on GitHub, but it's the way the Linux kernel works. Pretty much the only way you could get away with something even remotely similar and not have people look at you funny in the GitHub community is maybe if you stalked someone's fork, noticed they wer

I completely identify with your frustration over the lack of support for multiple windows. <political-request> Anyone else who shares that frustration, please vote here if you get a chance: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/10121 </political-request>

> "where's the in-editor JS REPL" Can use Code Runner for evaluating JS in a REPL... https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=formulah... Can also use the Shell Arguments feature of the Integrated Terminal to start up a JS REPL when opening a new terminal window... https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/integrated-termina... > "there doesn't seem to be any way to have system-specific configs" Just use Git, and only clone the repos for the system settings you're interested in using. So, if you have a Git repo for VS Code settings on PC 1, don't clone it on PC 2. Not that hard is it. > "And I'm not going to mention org-mode." I think you just did. It looks like someone wanted to implement it in VS Code ( https://github.com/jsonreeder/vscode-org-mode ) but there were issues holding it back from being implemented fully, such as:

Visual Studio Code: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode

Note that VSCode doesn't completely display lines of this length ( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/27380 ), and Kate struggles as well

True. VSCode is more open source in this sense. Of course, that doesn't mean everyone is happy... https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/17996

I recently saw the roadmap that was released for VSCode and really appreciated it. Since I'm always trying to get better at communicating to my dev org, I want to write documents like this to help create a clearer vision for my team. What are some other good software roadmaps? VSCode roadmap for reference: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/Roadmap

The problem with `cmdline` modes is definitely that tab completion doesn't work imo. Unluckily, that's blocked on the VSCode side, although it is possible to move our cmdline down to the status bar (probably would have been the better choice to begin with, really). For example, with the neovim rewrite it's possible to expose not only tab completion, but also the wildmenu: https://imgur.com/DO6IXYb If we wanted to keep it in the input box that pops up, we would need something along these lines: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/pull/36690 (it is my PR, for disclosure).

This line alone shows how they don't even grasp the concept of opt-in: this._userOptIn = typeof config.userOptIn === 'undefined' ? true : config.userOptIn; https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/b0a7b57d46a2dc1bafe...

Very sad to see that printing isn't on the roadmap for next year. If others want this feature, it's tracked in https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/5953

> Does anyone know more about the MS spyware and how much I need to worry about it? Actually the project is open source, so rather than FUD up the conversation: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/src/vs/platf...

> but it sends data to Microsoft even with Telemetry et al off I think Microsoft responded 100% correctly. They stated what they were doing, proved what they did, and they were wrong and stopping it. BTW I rather deal with a developer that is that responds this way. I also don't mind my editor sending update pings and when I have crashes which most programs are opt-out. From 2016 > today we continue to send events stating that a user has opted out and nothing else i.e. no usage data is sent. Here is the test to ensure that is all we send... https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/src/vs/platf... But we don’t need to do that and I don’t think it’s what you expect as a user – so we will stop sending anything i.e. even the opt out event Look for a change there soon. Thanks for bringing this to our attention and I hope you enjoy work

I really want to try VSCode, but it sends data to Microsoft even with Telemetry et al off [1]. Which is not surprising considering that Windows itself does the same thing [2] (hence, my not using Windows). Even if they allowed us to opt-out of telemetry now, I wouldn't trust them not to silently opt us back in later. This is not something I can accept my editor doing, and would expect a little less apathy about it from the HN crowd. Does anyone know more about the MS spyware and how much I need to worry about it? [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/16131 [2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-...

If that is really your sole wish, you should really file an issue[1] if you haven't already. Then for bonus points, come back here and post link to it. I would support it; my team wants that, too. [1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues EDIT: there is one: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1927