Re:Visual Studio Code 1.0
by flohofwoe on Thursday April 14, 2016 @01:42PM
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So, can VSCode run in a terminal window, without graphical user interface, while ssh'ed into another machine somewhere around the globe over a shitty internet connection, editing a file that's a few hundred megabytes big? As long as that's not possible it's not even a contest ;) I like VSCode because of it's debugger plugin infrastructure, but let's not get silly (MS changing the way code is written on Linux).
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> editing a file that's a few hundred megabytes big? As long as that's not possible it's not even a contest ;)
I usually try to keep my source files and config files smaller than a few hundred megabytes. Sounds like you might need more specialized tools for your unusual approach to editing source code.
A good code editor should let you inspect that 800MB XML file your customer sent you.
Re:Visual Studio Code 1.0
by reitanqild on Friday April 15, 2016 @01:51AM
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Back in the days before I learned about vim, Textmate was the choice for editing huge data files.
Didn't ever understand people who used it for the things Notepad++ could do back then though.
If your development work mainly consists of ssh'ing into remote machines over a shitty internet connection and then editing files that are megabytes big, I think you should reconsider your development workflow.
I realize that's a pretty harsh statement but that really sounds like the worst possible way to go around writing code.
Yes, you can using `ssh -X` (except for the "in a terminal" part)