VSCode workspace plugin

[lawrencegripper]

A simple plugin to list and launch recent VSCode workspaces

(Yeah the grep is horrible but there isn't a way to list this exposed via code CLI and grep works)

[Bierchermuesli]

maybe just load the ~/.config/Code/User: vi globalStorage/storage.json instead of grep?

have a look on this existing plugin: https://github.com/Bierchermuesli/albert-vscode/tree/main (PR pending)

[ManuelSchneid3r]

hey @Bierchermuesli, which PR are you talking of? did I miss something?

[Bierchermuesli]

hey @Bierchermuesli, which PR are you talking of? did I miss something?

my fork into https://github.com/mparati31/albert-vscode , sorry about the confusion. Would you suggest a PR into albertlauncher/python ?

[ManuelSchneid3r]

I am not that satisfied with either of them. Some ideas:

• this pr is lean. i really like the minmalism. but…
• grep is suboptimal, because it probably is not portable to other platforms. I dont understand the grep arguments, but if it just reads the file and finds pattern this should be solvable with pure python unsing regexes right?
• mparati's approach looks bloaty in comparison.
• IndexQueryHandler could be used with a hook into GlobalQueryHandler.handleQuery which checks the mdate of the file,builds a new index if it is newer and then relays to IndexQueryHandler.handleQuery. This way we get the global query handling, fuzzy search and the file will not be permanently read again. also response times are way faster, while this bunch of items should have a negligible memory impact.

[lawrencegripper]

@ManuelSchneid3r thanks for 👀 - like these ideas 👍

I'll try and get some time to move over to python regex and IndexQueryHandler approach.

Others are welcome to pick this up ahead of me if they have more time.

[ManuelSchneid3r]

This issue was not intentionally but automatically closed because I renamed the master branch to main. If you are still interested in getting it merged please reopen against main.