Visual Studio Code for outlining and CRIMPing

Posted by washere
Feb 20, 2018 at 11:57 PM

Top few IDE packages have great code editors but they are heavy and slower and diff class of beasts. They are great for using classes/libs, debugging and catching values etc. Then there are the top best txt editors, much lighter, some of which do fold/unfold text. In between these two 2 genres are code/text editors which are sort of middle weight contenders.
I think I said a few months ago MS VS Code is my 3rd top fave in this genre. Stick a good black or dark theme on it and learn keyboard shortcuts and you are off to the races. 2nd fave in this class for me is still Atom. Slightly slow to load, granted, but once running it is not slow(er). Why better than MS VS Code? Because it has more plugins, aka packages in Atom & aka extensions in VS Code. Most by independent devs and increasingly by companies too. But both are pinned in my Win taskbar. Used for diff genres of work, folder pane on the left & black themes, as in my #1 choice. Which still is Sublime Text 3 which is not free but it is probably the number one choice with many. Be it for coding or complex text, regular expression, etc.

In all 3 call up the command center (diff names in each):
CTRL + SHIFT + P

Try typing fold, or unfold, or theme or whatever comes to your mind. You’ll be surprised to see what plugin pops up for each in these top 3.

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-tips-and-tricks