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Re:VSCodium – An Open Source Visual Studio Code Without Trac... by kotrunga on Friday April 12, 2019 @11:39PM (#19650969)
No matter what, it's an opt-out setting that can only be disabled with:

"workbench.settings.enableNaturalLanguageSearch": false

That's unacceptable.

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Re:VSCodium – An Open Source Visual Studio Code Without Trac... by Stuckinsofa on Friday April 12, 2019 @11:48PM (#19651013)
Can you explain why this search feature is a problem because I don't understand?
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Re:VSCodium – An Open Source Visual Studio Code Without Trac... by userbinator on Saturday April 13, 2019 @12:21AM (#19651110)
Maybe not understanding the problem with a tool that may be used to work on proprietary code containing trade secret information silently and unexpectedly sending information out to the Internet is the reason for software becoming spyware...
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Re:VSCodium – An Open Source Visual Studio Code Without Trac... by zeusk on Saturday April 13, 2019 @12:28AM (#19651125)
Emphasizing from my original post,

>> it only does this on the (VSCode) settings file and not on other files ;)

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Re:VSCodium – An Open Source Visual Studio Code Without Trac... by userbinator on Saturday April 13, 2019 @12:57AM (#19651186)
Starting with "Lol, probably just an oversight" and ending with an emoticon is excessively dismissive and flippant... that's how you lose customers, or potential ones.
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Re:VSCodium – An Open Source Visual Studio Code Without Trac... by Stuckinsofa on Saturday April 13, 2019 @01:55PM (#19654587)
You store trade secrets in your configuration file? I still don't understand what the big issue is. Can you clarify that instead of critizising my lack of knowledge?
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