VS Code

found this in an extension description today:

Why not use the Dev Containers from VS Code? Because Microsoft Devcontainer is a proprietary extension incompatible with VS Codium.

Why it is not on VS Code Marketplace? Because Microsoft is a VS Code gatekeeper and won't allow anyone to publish an extension if it uses Proposed API. Except Microsoft and its "partners", of course.

Meanwhile, these API are the only way to implement an extension like Open Remote SSH or Devcontainers.

Microsoft promises to allow everyone to use these API and publish extensions based on them in the future, once these API are "stable". But it's been many years since Microsoft first published an extension backed by a proposed API. It has also published many other extensions supported by the same API. However, the API is "unstable" and doesn't seem to be going to stabilise anytime soon.

If this issue gets 20 upvotes, the bot says it'll get added to the backlog to get fixed. Just posting it here to help it get some traction. We have ~40 days before it's simply closed.

Last month I posted this issue to the VSCode github about a bug where new instances of VSCode launched from a windows terminal fail to inherit the environment if VSCode is already running. I have to use Windows where I work and I often need different environments when working on different projects so I'd really like this issue to get fixed.

• Find in Explorer - Quickly find files in the Explorer view with the improved Find control.
• Source Control Graph - More filtering options and interactivity in the Source Control Graph.
• Python test coverage - Run Python tests with coverage and get rich results in the editor.
• ESM - Faster VS Code startup thanks to the migration to ESM.
• Account preference - Specify which account to use for an extension.
• Copilot in Native REPL - Get code completions and Inline Chat in the Native REPL.
• Improved chat context - Drag & drop files or use IntelliSense for more relevant chat context.
• Test environment setup - Get help with setting up a test framework for your workspace.

Do you know the .vscode/tasks.json file? You can add it to your project, and @vscode will run your configured commands automatically when you open the project ✨

I use this for the Inertia Table so it starts the web server and Vite without me having to open terminals for them 👌

#Laravel #PHP #JS #coding

• Default browser - Configure which browser to use for opening links in VS Code.
• Revert PRs - Easily create a revert PR for a merged PR.
• Extension updates - More easily configure auto updating of extensions.
• Override profiles - Override an existing profile with the Profiles Editor.
• Paste files in CSS - Quickly add CSS file references with paste or drag and drop.
• Move Panel to top - Position the Panel section at the top of the workbench.
• Copilot uses GPT-4o - GitHub Copilot Chat upgraded to OpenAI's GPT-4o.

Upvote the issue on Github if you want to see this feature added into VSCode.

Here is how you can add a simple action to open a folder in VSCodium within Nemo file manager.

1. Create a new file in ~/.local/share/nemo/actions/ and name the file vscodium.nemo_action
2. Open the file in a text editor
3. Copy the code below into the file

[Nemo Action]
Name=Open in VSCodium
Comment=Open VSCodium in the selected folder
Exec=codium %F
Icon-Name=vscodium
Selection=Any
Extensions=dir;

4. Save the changes made to the file
5. Now when you right click inside a folder in Nemo, it will show an option "Open in VSCodium" and when you click this option, it will launch VSCodium using the currently directory as the workspace.

This can be modified to work with Visual Studio Code (Which is closed source unlike VSCodium) by editing codium %F to code %F

Time complexity isn't even associated to the size of the list. Amazing!

• Preview: Incoming/Outgoing changes graph - Visualize incoming and outgoing changes in the Source Control view.
• Python environments - Enhanced environment discovery with python-environment-tools.
• Smart Send in native REPL - Smoothly run code chunks in the native REPL.
• GitHub Copilot extensibility - Chat and Language Model APIs available in VS Code Stable.
• Preview: Profiles Editor - Manage your profiles in a single place.
• Custom tab labels - More variable options and support for multiple extensions.
• TypeScript 5.5 - Syntax checking for regular expressions and other language features.
• JavaScript Debugger - Inspect shadowed variables while debugging JavaScript.

I need to be able to see the difference between the current working file and the previous commit as I am editing the file. The only history plugins I can find either use pop-ups (which disappear when I start typing) or a dedicated diff-view which takes up too much space on my small monitor.

• Editor tabs multi-select - Select and perform actions on multiple tabs simultaneously.
• Profiles - Open new windows with your preferred profile.
• Editor actions - Immediately access editor actions across editor groups.
• Copilot extensibility - Build AI into your extensions with the Chat and Language Model API.
• VS Code Speech - Automatically read out Copilot Chat responses with text-to-speech.
• Find in notebooks - Restrict search to selected cells in notebooks.
• Chat context - Quickly attach different types of context in chat.
• IntelliSense in chat responses - Better understand generated code with IntelliSense.

Is there an extension that allows for automatic stashing on branch switch like GitHub desktop does?

There was an a proposal about it, but it got declined: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/86668

• Preview Markdown images & videos - Hover over a link to preview images & videos in Markdown.
• Enhanced branch switching - Restore open editors seamlessly when switching between branches.
• Middle-click paste support - Paste text quickly in the terminal using a mouse middle-click.
• WSL over Remote - SSH - Use WSL when connected to a remote machine via Remote - SSH.
• Accessible View - Navigate through comments, chat code blocks & terminal commands from the Accessible View.
• Keyboard shortcuts for UI actions - Customize keybindings for UI actions directly with a right-click.
• Quick Search - Search for text across your workspace with Quick Search.
• AI-powered rename suggestions - Get intelligent rename suggestions in the editor with Copilot.
• Copilot content exclusion - Exclude files from being used in the Copilot context.
• Local workspace extension - Include and install extensions directly in your workspace.