Code editors rant
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The VSC one that keeps getting me, it's 50% really useful and 50% utterly annoying, is that when you close a file and it moves to another tab, it also moves back to that file in the explorer. Sometimes that's very convenient, and other times it's a PITA because you closed that file in order to open another one right there at the same spot. And I guess another that is in the same 50/50% category is the single vs. double click open. It can be really convenient if you are just going through a bunch of files one at a time. But inevitably I get myself to some place I need to be, and then go to open another file and forget I only single clicked the first one and it gets closed. But, on the whole, I've started getting used to it for my C++ work.
Explorans limites defectum
Dean Roddey wrote:
it's 50% really useful and 50% utterly annoying
That perfectly summarizes my experience with it.
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Paying for VS gives you a version that does very little more than the free Community edition.
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Brady Kelly wrote:
Paying for VS gives you a version that does very little more than the free Community edition.
Good point.
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Jacquers wrote:
Why not just use ctrl-s to save the file?
:doh: Finger retraining commences. :-D
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Jacquers wrote:
Why not just use ctrl-s to save the file?
:doh: Finger retraining commences. :-D
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hakimio wrote:
ry JetBrains Rider.
I like JetBrains Rider. But it's a rather overkill to edit Javascript files in an Angular app.
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Marc Clifton wrote:
You obviously get deserve what you pay for
FTFY I used Sharp Develop until now and was very happy with it. Now that it is dead, I will sooner forget that I ever heard of .Net than to crawl back to Mickeysoft. C++ is better for what I like to do anyway.
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CodeWraith wrote:
I will sooner forget that I ever heard of .Net .... C++ is better for what I like to do anyway.
Heh, I have the reverse reaction. :) At this point, I'd rather work in Python than touch C++!
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Richard MacCutchan wrote:
but I absolutely love emacs.
Masochist! :-D
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hakimio wrote:
ry JetBrains Rider.
I like JetBrains Rider. But it's a rather overkill to edit Javascript files in an Angular app.
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VC++ 6.0 ruined everything for me. I still use VS2008 just because of the editor. I really miss BRIEF...
Brief by UnderWare, Inc. I wrote my own "intellisense" modules in their LISP-like macro language to load the C language structures for our database out of the header files into a popup menu. Hot key, pick the table, pick the column, hit enter to insert into the editor. Also, I loved the fact that you could load files larger than physical memory within a blink of an eye. You had to go to lunch when you were ready to "make" your project which was only 150 .c files. (45 minutes to build on a 12Mhz i286) Now I have a machine that will build 30,000 much larger source files in 4 minutes!
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hakimio wrote:
ry JetBrains Rider.
I like JetBrains Rider. But it's a rather overkill to edit Javascript files in an Angular app.
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I'm referring to Sublime and Visual Studio Code. VSCode: look, when I Alt-F-S to save the file, put the cursor back on the document. I do not want to have to click on the document. VSCode: Page up and down should move the document up and down a full screen page. Don't just move the cursor first to the top or bottom of the page. VSCode: Shift up/down arrows. For f***cks sake, if I scroll past where the cursor is, so the cursor goes "off screen", move the cursor to top or bottom of the screen. Otherwise, shift up/down followed by up/down takes me back to wherever the cursor was when it scrolled off the screen. Sublime: Your bookmarks suck. Sublime: WTF happened to performance? All of a sudden everything is dog slow, which is why I switched to that POC VSCode. VSCode: Learn some lessons on how to do global search from Sublime. I think I'm just going to use VS 2017. You obviously get what you pay for.
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VC++ 6.0 ruined everything for me. I still use VS2008 just because of the editor. I really miss BRIEF...
darktrick544 wrote:
I really miss BRIEF...
Amen. Loved the macro language. jEdit is sort of similar and does have an extensive macro capability.
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I'm referring to Sublime and Visual Studio Code. VSCode: look, when I Alt-F-S to save the file, put the cursor back on the document. I do not want to have to click on the document. VSCode: Page up and down should move the document up and down a full screen page. Don't just move the cursor first to the top or bottom of the page. VSCode: Shift up/down arrows. For f***cks sake, if I scroll past where the cursor is, so the cursor goes "off screen", move the cursor to top or bottom of the screen. Otherwise, shift up/down followed by up/down takes me back to wherever the cursor was when it scrolled off the screen. Sublime: Your bookmarks suck. Sublime: WTF happened to performance? All of a sudden everything is dog slow, which is why I switched to that POC VSCode. VSCode: Learn some lessons on how to do global search from Sublime. I think I'm just going to use VS 2017. You obviously get what you pay for.
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This sort of nonsense is why I moved to Atom... Up until... You know. [This sort of nonsense](https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/15323).
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This sort of nonsense is why I moved to Atom... Up until... You know. [This sort of nonsense](https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/15323).
Asday wrote:
Up until... You know. This sort of nonsense.
These editors should not be written in Javascript. :sigh:
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I'm referring to Sublime and Visual Studio Code. VSCode: look, when I Alt-F-S to save the file, put the cursor back on the document. I do not want to have to click on the document. VSCode: Page up and down should move the document up and down a full screen page. Don't just move the cursor first to the top or bottom of the page. VSCode: Shift up/down arrows. For f***cks sake, if I scroll past where the cursor is, so the cursor goes "off screen", move the cursor to top or bottom of the screen. Otherwise, shift up/down followed by up/down takes me back to wherever the cursor was when it scrolled off the screen. Sublime: Your bookmarks suck. Sublime: WTF happened to performance? All of a sudden everything is dog slow, which is why I switched to that POC VSCode. VSCode: Learn some lessons on how to do global search from Sublime. I think I'm just going to use VS 2017. You obviously get what you pay for.
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hate using the mouse, my arm gets repetitive motion injuries :cool: :java:
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This sort of nonsense is why I moved to Atom... Up until... You know. [This sort of nonsense](https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/15323).
My son likes using Atom. Nice.
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Asday wrote:
Up until... You know. This sort of nonsense.
These editors should not be written in Javascript. :sigh:
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Heh to me, ctrl-s is move cursor left one character position. I'm an old fart who used WordStar in the CP/M days and I really like the WordStar cursor control movements. Basically, all my editors and IDE's (even Microsoft Word or Libre Office) use WordStar control sequences (or appear to!). I have an AutoHotKey script that changes my WordStar control sequences into the appropriate keystrokes for particular editor/IDE I'm using at the time. I also use and old ZiffDavis utility (TradeKeys) to make the Cap Locks into the control key. Before I retired, it was quite funny watching an IT guys trying to use notepad when they had to mess with my machine. :)
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Javascript is my favorite language. I don't think I've actually programmed c# for 4+ years now. I've done some debugging and a couple of fixes deployed but that's about it. I used to program c# for a living, and I liked it just fine. I prefer typescript to c# now though.
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
ah, so you're really programming in C# then... without .net
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