That’s exactly how it feels: a more modern and more powerful notepad++, with lots of syntax support and easier to add new languages (even better than code in my opinion). Code seems to try and be an ide for everything, but if I’m doing a complex project, I’ll be getting a specific ide, for everything else a good text editor and a Makefil is all I need
Well there’s also a plugin for Code, which is an open sourced fork of VS Code without the Microsoft association. Unfortunately a lot of the cool plugins that make VS Code so great are missing from Code.
I think you mean Codium/VSCodium? Some of the extensions can be downloaded from the ms page and then loaded into it, but you are back at the moral questions that made you use the alternative.
Sublime Text is great for this. Every so often it will remind me that I’ve been using it for free for the past 20 years.
There are alternatives that are arguably better
It’s a must install for me.
It’s like notepad++, but with better features and plugins.
I definitely use it as a swiss army knife, but most of my actual editing does happen in my suped up neovim setup.
That’s exactly how it feels: a more modern and more powerful notepad++, with lots of syntax support and easier to add new languages (even better than code in my opinion). Code seems to try and be an ide for everything, but if I’m doing a complex project, I’ll be getting a specific ide, for everything else a good text editor and a Makefil is all I need
Exactly, and it’s only a few key presses to add whatever packages I need if they don’t exist already.
The multiple cursors, good regex performance, and json formatting utilities make it a great glue tool for me.
Every time I shutdown my computer I’ve got a half dozen or more buffers open from that type of work.
VSCode has never clicked for me, I know it’s similar in a lot of ways, but I find it kind of noisy. It’s just not a tool that I find intuitive.
Those alternatives would force me to unlearn 20 years of muscle memory
There’s a plug-in for visual studio code that will change all of the hotkeys to your sublime hotkey mapping.
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Well there’s also a plugin for Code, which is an open sourced fork of VS Code without the Microsoft association. Unfortunately a lot of the cool plugins that make VS Code so great are missing from Code.
I think you mean Codium/VSCodium? Some of the extensions can be downloaded from the ms page and then loaded into it, but you are back at the moral questions that made you use the alternative.
Yeah but it’s free and it’s actually good.
Really sticking with the old school solutions there I see.