Feedback: Missing Plugins

[egamma]

This thread is used for discussing what should go in the Extensions Request wiki

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[csholmq]

Wow, cool feedback loop!

• Don't know how I missed Align and Document This. Thanks for the tips!
• "doxy commenting" would be the same as "docblockr". So that can be checked off as well.
• highlight-line is already there. But it doesn't highlight when using Find, but it does using Go To Line.
• "todo-show" is the plugin I'm lacking. "native perf" was more a appreciation of VSCode itself.

[csholmq]

Oh, OK I see now. Document This was released yesterday. Same day I tweeted :)

Just coming back to "atom-alignment". The plugin Align is the same as Atom Alignment which tried to do smart things where is looks for the same delimiter (e.g. =) in the selected rows of text.

What I was referring to was atom-alignment (in turn inspired by sublime_alignment) which aligns multiple cursors to the same indent. Allowing for much more powerful usage where e.g. ctrl+d can be used to select multiple instances of a letter or text before aligning. Great for multi-column structs for instance.

I've created a ticket (steve8708/vscode-align#5) to alter the behaviour. Hopefully it comes through.

[egamma]

@csholmq just curious you use Code primary for C/C++ development?

[csholmq]

@egamma Correct. Mostly embedded. Been using VS for one C# project but not overly fond of it. Might try to use Code on that project eventually.

[waderyan]

Created a wiki to capture these. Also will migrate other requests from User Voice.

It would be great if that is a living document for adding extension requests and checking them off. We can pick some off for iteration planning and encourage the community (both in and outside of Microsoft) to pick from that list.

[csholmq]

@waderyan And how does the community give feedback to that Wiki? E.g. when a plugin exists or has had its behavior altered.

[waderyan]

@csholmq good question. Wiki is limited in its discussion support. We could switch to an issue. My worry is that it will become too difficult to see the list of extensions with a lot of comments. Perhaps we'll keep the list at the top of the issue... Open to your feedback.

[csholmq]

@waderyan Perhaps this issue could be used as discussion on what the Wiki should contain? Because I do believe that the Wiki is better at summarizing the discussion.

[waderyan]

Yeah I like it. I'll put a link to this in the wiki and clean up the top of the issue to explain what this thread should be used for.

[waderyan]

Looks like someone beat me to it :)

[csholmq]

@waderyan Yeah, it was already there when you closed the issue. I was just against you closing for the sake of discussion :)

[waderyan]

I've started to move a few highly requested items from User Voice that are good candidates for extensions. Lots of language support extensions. I also added a list of popular atom extensions that some of our users have given us feedback on.

[brettcannon]

The link for the Python request is incorrectly pointing back to the wiki page (probably meant to be https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/293070-visual-studio-code/suggestions/7752336-wider-python-support).

[waderyan]

Yep thank you @brettcannon

[csholmq]

Xamarin is supported in Visual Studio. Would be sweet to have it in VSCode!

[waderyan]

Yep definitely. Added to the wiki.

[csholmq]

• atom-alignment. Aligning multi-line, multi-cursor and multiple selections.

is now included in the

• atom alignment -> VS Code Align

already checked off.

[csholmq]

• todo-show. Show todo, fixme, and changed.

is found in vscode-todo

[waderyan]

Excellent. Updated.

[Darktex]

Porting Hydrogen would be awesome. I find myself developing a lot in Python for data science and Hydrogen allows me to build scripts with the simplicity of a Jupyter notebook without replicating my work.

It seems the extension works by simply attaching to the Jupyter kernel's socket using ZeroMQ. Users are having a hard time on Windows because of ZMQ binaries requiring VS 2013, and because of Atom being terribly slow (in general, and on Windows). Would be awesome to have this for VS code coming with a precompiled ZMQ.

[glen-84]

Sublime-Style-Column-Selection won't be needed if/when #5402 is implemented.

[jonathanwiesel]

Document This it's pretty cool; however I woudn't eliminate DocBlockr from the list since DocBlockr supports many more languages, such as Apex, Java, Objective-C, PHP and others including the ones Document This does. *Document This only seem to support Javascript and Typescript.

[kaiwood]

@waderyan Hex dumps (and even editing them) are nowadays pretty well covered by this one: vscode-hexdump

[interjc]

Document This just supports the .js and .ts file, DocBlockr is better, how can I install that in VSC?

[beniwtv]

Yes, Document This is not a total replacement for Dockblockr.
We need more supported language until we can mark tgat one as complete.

[fbrundu]

What do you think about jupyter notebooks inside vscode?
I am not thinking about something like Hydrogen but the whole notebook, similar to https://github.com/jupyter/atom-notebook
Currently, people from the nteract team are extracting a lot of modules to implement it (see jupyter/atom-notebook#58).

This would be nice to implement for two reasons:

• The implementation in Atom is slow and not maintained, while nteract lacks the capability of editing different files than Jupyter notebooks
• Jupyter notebooks could be shared across developer with different environments (e.g. Jupyter, nteract..)

[sergiogirado]

What do you think about UI for tasks inside vscode?
Something like another side panel (like the source control, not sure if those panel has a name).
It can show tasks from multiple sources (npm, gulp, grunt, etc...)
Those task sources can be extended with custom extensions (angular-cli, webpack, etc...)
The panel would look like a tree view with all the detected tasks grouped by task source.

This would be an alternative to >Tasks: Run Task

[csholmq]

@waderyan @seanmcbreen GCC linting is sort of solved with Clang linting from the C/C++ extension. The Align extension also covers the align by multiple cursors part nowadays.

I suggest you add SVN SCM extension to the requested list. It's a huge demand for it.

[egamma]

Closing - this issue has served its purpose but it is now no longer used.