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An Elaborate GitHub Comment on Microsoft's new edit CLI Text Editor Asking for Simplicity and Predictability (github.com)

submitted 4 days ago by Kissaki to c/programming

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The comment does well in providing context and arguments.

Lets go back to the closest thing we have for requirements for this editor..Default CLI Editor - Feature Exploration!. This discussion was based on the current state of windows and was not concerned with UNIX.

Being a simple text editor, it should not hallucinate, it should not add text one did not type, it should not change the text that was typed. If the user typed a tab character, it was because the user wanted a tab character. If you want four spaces then type four spaces.

edit should by default work like the original namesake and not hallucinate or add characters that were not typed or make assumptions.

Where do you draw the line on "smart" features? Tab should not add indent spaces? Encoding or newline mechanisms? Determining EOF newline?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The things the author mentioned drive me nuts about visual studio…. Especially trivial completions, like brace pairing, their thirst to add these newb-crutches leads me to backspacing and retyping over and over again, trying to figure out what the editor did that I didn’t even notice and how to undo it. For something that is literally a 20ms muscle memory action for any experienced programmer.

[–] Kissaki 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Most of those can be disabled in Visual Studio, though, right?

I think I may have disabled some of those kinds of conveniences/automatisms.