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Re:Show HN: Magit for VSCode (Alpha) by dmortin on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @01:57PM (#22426003)
Why can't you run an Emacs with Magit alongside Vscode? You don't have to miss it, you can still use emacs for that.
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Re:Show HN: Magit for VSCode (Alpha) by jimmyvalmer on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @02:12PM (#22426174)
This is like being on Android and having an IPhone just for some iOS-only app. It's brutal and flies in the face of all that is good and pure.
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Re:Show HN: Magit for VSCode (Alpha) by kstrauser on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @04:01PM (#22427282)
That's a pretty good analogy. Firing up Emacs for just one thing is a pretty large side dependency. Also, Emacs's keybindings are jarring when bouncing back and forth between apps custom built for a particular OS. They're not bad in any way, just very different.
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Re:Show HN: Magit for VSCode (Alpha) by dmortin on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @03:33PM (#22427012)
It's like using an external tool for something if it's better than the internal implementation of the editor for the same thing.
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