Welcome back, friends!
Today, we are going to be looking at the code editor. This is a Software Engineer's bread and butter. It's how you take the...
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I like how you say the Vim/Emacs debate will rage until the end of time - and then leave my beloved Emacs off your link list!
Just teasin' of course - great write-up. Extending your editor is a fantastic litmus test.
I always have Emacs open and still use vim for lots of things when ssh'd into servers...and I advise young engineers to learn neither unless they absolutely have to. My sunk cost needn't be their hazing.
For sure. Learning programming and Emacs at the same time is a bad plan - but it saddens me to think that many never even take a look once they've gotten over the initial hump.
Haha! If you have some good Emacs links I'll include them! To be fair, I didn't add Vim either :P
I use Vim, so here's my curated list of Vim resources
I do have one bookmarked for emacs as well The Ultimate Collection of Emacs Resources
Currently my theme of choice that I use for almost everything (iTerm, Android Studio, PHPStorm, ...) is Dracula.
It is open-source and supports a lot of different tools.
Link: draculatheme.com/
Definitely agree with your point on improving our understanding of the inner workings of an IDE by building a plugin (or extension in VS Code term)
I can testify that building an extension for VS Code is made easy. They have good documentation, and man that type-hinting in VS Code because of Typescript is just helpful. Saves me big time and prevents me from falling too deep through a rabbit hole because of the nature of loosely type in Javascript. Although I've probably only scratched the surface of VS Code works.
Last weekend I made myself an extension called 'Hue'. An extension to control your Hue lights ad-hoc and through the file types that you are working on. Would love to get feedback :)
marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...
If you are a code developer look into LSP and DAP which provide language and debugger support for any editors that support these protocols. This came from how VSCode provides these services, but pretty much every editor/language combo is probably supported.
Essentially you will be able to do things like auto-completion, reference/definition finding, and debugging for pretty much any language in your editor using a standard interface. Amazing!
See:
I've yet to configure Emacs to use these personally, it's on my list to do very soon...
The link to
https://dankneon.com/is broken, it shows up as a relative link on dev.to.Good catch! Thanks!
there is also VSCodium - Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VSCode
Added thanks!