adjust console logging; set editing prefs

[devoncarew]

• specify to use tabs w/ the project
• add a flag to control analysis server traffic logging
• minor tweaks to the logging

Some of the changes are more style related; happy to iterate on this patch.

[DanTup]

I actually just noticed there was a weird mismatch in my files.. I think I set insertSpaces: false but the default behaviour scans the existing file and my extension.ts (and somehow util.ts) have spaces.

4-char tabs is my preference and I planned on sorting this

👍 !

[DanTup]

All seems fine to me (though I'd prefer to break the ifs onto two lines).

Dumping things to the console was useful when I started, but the debug console in Code is so bad (doesn't show long things, is really sluggish and copy/paste doesn't work properly for more than the visible height) that I'm thinking of changing this to dump to disk. Hopefully there's a way to only do this from the dev extension host; doesn't make much sense on users machines (unless they're trying to help diagnose something).

[DanTup]

Thanks! :)

[devoncarew]

that I'm thinking of changing this to dump to disk

You could set up a hidden pref to specify a file to log to (dart.development.serverLog) - that way you could log during development but it wouldn't be something that's exposed to users -

[DanTup]

Does Code support hidden config options? I get completion suggestions on the others, haven't seen anything about hiding them. Sounds like a good option if there is. I've created #37 as a task to figure something out.

[devoncarew]

If you define them in package.json they'll show up in that overall, synthesized settings file. I think you can read from any value though, so reading from dart.fooBar but not listing it in the package spec should effectively create a hidden pref.

[DanTup]

Gotcha!