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well you know [outer] space has dark matter ...
and that's why whitespace source files are mysteriously so huge
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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.
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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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Why not just use ctrl-s to save the file?
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Jacquers wrote: Why not just use ctrl-s to save the file?
Finger retraining commences. 
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btw, I couldn't replicate the alt-f s scenario, it opens the file menu, saves the file and doesn't lose focus from the editor.
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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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Try JetBrains Rider. It's much better than Visual Studio.
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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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For JavaScript, use the Google Chrome source debugger tab with a workspace mapping.
Pause your javascript at a breakpoint and start editing!
You will get "live intellisense" on all of your referenced objects based on their current state.
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Well, it also has much better support for TypeScript and Angular than Visual Studio Code. For minor typo fixes Notepad++ might be fine, but if you need any real work done you should always fire-up full fledged IDE like Rider or Visual Studio.
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I keep a subscription to the intellij allpack. I have Rider when/if I need to do .net stuff. Otherwise I'm in the web|phpStorm.
Of coarse I am a javascript dev so most of my stuff is flavors javascript and bash.
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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.
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ah, so you're really programming in C# then... without .net
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Yeah there's that. I also do regular ES6 without typescript, but mostly typescript.
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VC++ 6.0 ruined everything for me. I still use VS2008 just because of the editor. I really miss BRIEF...
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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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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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Yeh, I was a Brief user for a long time, and then most editors provided good Brief emulation for a good while after that. So I had those keys in my fingers and it was hard to change.
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Just relax and install Notepad++ 
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