Can you share your reason for switching to vscode?
What add-ons have you used to setup a productive vscode environment for Elixir dev?
CharlesO
bryanjos
So spacemacs is greatness. Emacs is greatness. One issue I was having was trying to paste things from outside of emacs (I would have to copy and paste things twice). I would also run into some slowness when editing. The elixir layer has an issue where it adds an end each time you make a new line in a case expression. I think that’s fixed in master, but I didn’t want to move to that.
Why VSCode in particular? I wanted something as fast as Sublime Text, but with some of the extensibility of Atom and Emacs. There are plenty of extensions for the languages I use and the debugger is an added bonus even though I haven’t used it yet. Also it supports ligatures.
For Elixir I’m using the vscode-elixir and vscode-credo extensions.
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OvermindDL1
Wha? I’ve not experienced that, do you have a reproducible test-case? If so then it should definitely be submitted as a bug report!
Nor have I noticed this?
Hmm, not noticed this either but I often cancel auto-fills anyway. ^.^
Ooo tell me more? How does this work with Elixir? 
Emacs has fantastic debugging facilities, but none for Elixir that I’ve seen…
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bryanjos
I’ve talked to multiple people about it and I think my issues are around using cmd-c and cmd-p. I don’t think I’m supposed to use those. And I also sometimes have to edit large files (like large CSVs or JSON or SQL files) which is normally where the slowness comes in at.
I have not used the debugger and I don’t know if it works with Elixir. I do know people have used it with JavaScript and Go. But I believe there is an actual debugging framework you can plug into.
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OvermindDL1
Ah, heh, so mac’isms I guess? And yeah, large files hurt in every single editor I’ve tried yet, they crash Atom for me pretty often… >.>
Ah, so same as Emacs then.
I’m not really sure how an Elixir debugger would work, but I’d like to see one.
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bryanjos
Yeah mac’isms. Not going to lie I have thought about getting a nice Linux laptop just to make Emacs happier :). I still might for that and other reasons
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AstonJ
bryanjos
bill.c
For everything except when I have a one off file to view quickly. In that case, I’ll drag the file on Visual Studio Code.
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darkbaby123
Used Atom for a long time and recently try to switch to VS Code because of it’s speed and powerful intellisense out-of-box.
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