Threads for toddmazierski

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    Sophistifunk avatar Sophistifunk 3 years ago | link | on: What's your VS Code setup like?

    Can anybody tell me how to disable the “preview tab” state, where you click on something once in the explorer (or more importantly open it with cmd-p), and it opens but in a “preview” tab that will be replaced? Or better yet, I’d like to promote “preview” tabs (I’m probably using the wrong term here) into real tabs once you’ve had it open and/or focused for a few minutes?

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      prepend avatar prepend 3 years ago | link

      I haven’t figured out how to disable, but I did learn double click opens for real. Now I use lame open on purpose for files I just want to preview.

      I wish the function was reversed.

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        toddmazierski avatar toddmazierski edited 3 years ago | link

        You can disable “preview” mode entirely with this setting:

        "workbench.editor.enablePreview": false

        …or just from Quick Open with this one:

        "workbench.editor.enablePreviewFromQuickOpen": false
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        nikivi avatar nikivi 3 years ago | link

        If you save the file (cmd+s) it will make the tab permanent. If I understand what you meant.

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          Sophistifunk avatar Sophistifunk 3 years ago | link

          That’s a useful trick I need to keep in mind, chur.

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            toddmazierski avatar toddmazierski 3 years ago | link

            Saving works—there’s also a command to just keep the file open named “View: Keep Editor” (workbench.action.keepEditor). The default keyboard shortcut is ⌘K Enter.

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          koudi avatar koudi 3 years ago | link

          I’ve disables preview, it’s annoying (see other comments for details). As for “promoting” you can double click on the tab to do that.

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          toddmazierski avatar toddmazierski 5 years ago | link | on: Ask crustaceans: Did your Android device just mysteriously auto-update apps?

          I’m glad you asked. Just a few hours ago, my Moto G5 suddenly turned off and booted back up again. No problems with the device like this until today.

          The crashes continued (after about a minute of uptime) until I enabled the “Google App” app. I disabled it months ago to avoid seeing or interacting with the unremovable search bar widget.

          I’m very interested in hearing what happened. I have all auto-update functions disabled. Well, at least I thought I did!

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            caleb avatar caleb 5 years ago | link

            so now you have to deal with the search bar widget?

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              toddmazierski avatar toddmazierski 5 years ago | link

              I apparently do, unless I install a completely different launcher.

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                flyingfisch avatar flyingfisch 5 years ago | link

                Arrow launcher is amazing, I don’t know if you’ve tried it. :)

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                  toddmazierski avatar toddmazierski 5 years ago | link

                  I have not. Thank you for the suggestion!

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            toddmazierski avatar toddmazierski 5 years ago | link | on: Microsoft/winfile: Original Windows File Manager (winfile) with enhancements

            Neat! As mentioned in the README, the author created an original_plus tag if you’re more interested in seeing the historical artifact than the modern enhancements.

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              toddmazierski avatar toddmazierski 6 years ago | link | on: Introducing TJSON, a stricter, typed form of JSON

              Neat! Inline tagging seems like it might be useful in some contexts.

              I wonder if you could express Hexadecimal, Base32, etc. with JSON Schema instead (example), though, which also has support for required fields and conditional dependencies, and is implemented in several languages.

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                bascule avatar bascule 6 years ago | link

                The goal of TJSON is to be a self-describing, schema-free format.

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                  xcombelle avatar xcombelle 6 years ago | link

                  I don’t get why the type should be self describing, looks like that introduce a lot of clutter

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                inactive-user avatar inactive-user 6 years ago | link | on: Which unheard-of tools do you use and recommend?
                • par - A really handy utility for reflowing text in a particular column limit. Works well in source code with comments or email quotes. My favorite bit is that the man page contains an apology for its complexity. :-)
                • git gui is one of the few tools I’m willing to leave my terminal for. I use it in particular for committing things in patch mode.
                • bpython - A souped up Python interpreter. Not quite to the level of ipython, but has niceties like auto completion and doc string snippets.
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                  vadik avatar vadik 6 years ago | link

                  git gui

                  Not tig?

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                    inactive-user avatar inactive-user 6 years ago | link

                    I do actually use tig daily but I thought it was just a viewer for history? git gui is nice because it makes effective use of the mouse for patch mode commits.

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                      vadik avatar vadik 6 years ago | link

                      For some reason I was sure tig could commit, but I was mistaken.

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                        toddmazierski avatar toddmazierski 6 years ago | link

                        You’re not mistaken. :-) In tig’s “Status view”, you can stage individual files, chunks, and lines for committing. This blog post is a nice overview of tig’s features.

                        I use tig every day and often recommend it to colleagues who git add or git add -i.

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                          vadik avatar vadik 6 years ago | link

                          I was mistaken about being mistaken! (I normally just git add -p and use tig only as a viewer.)

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                    inactive-user avatar inactive-user 6 years ago | link

                    I’m definitely addicted to git gui and gitg.