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Every time I try VSCode I find that it's still missing text editing features that have been in Visual Studio 2015 since forever. Like bookmarks. How can you use an editor that doesn't have native bookmarking ability? It also didn't have code folding for the longest time. I think they got it now...

So, I don't know why anybody who is running Windows would choose VSCode. I get why people running OS X and Linux would choose VSCode (obviously they have no access to the full Visual Studio) but does anybody on Windows actually use this?

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Search and Replace in multiple files. That's among the top 10 features that should've been available since release 0.0.1 in any code editor. They're at 1.2 now and still no cigar. Who's the project manager who keeps saying "nah, don't need it"?

Then again, it's a good litmus test. If you find yourself opening your old editor to do something so basic your new editor can't do: what the hell are you doing in your new editor?

Same for me. The lack of "search and replace in multiple files" is the main issue preventing me to switch (and maybe an offline spell checker). I hope they fix this soon!

I use it daily (running both Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio Code). For me, it's a Sublime Text killer.

We have some small node apps, endless python scripts and I routinely deal with configuration files, XML, JSON, even just machine-formatted flat files. It's very good at doing that when I need it to, and being a lightweight IDE when I drop into node or python. Anything that doesn't require me spinning up the full IDE but comes with good editing and search (what I was using Notepad++ and Sublime for in the past) is a win for me.

There are some really nice features in there too, the extension ecosystem is very active and it does what I need it to. Pleasure to use.

The community bookmarks extension launched back when extensions did. It's quite mature at this point and you should check it out if you rely on bookmarks. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=alefragn...

It is a work in progress. Not perfect but does many things right. If you look through their backlog they seem to be adding features carefully based on user feedback and priority. But there is atleast one extension in the marketplace meanwhile.

It's more of an alternative for people use sublime text or atom, rather than an alternative to visual studio.

I never use bookmarks or code folding. Perhaps people like me are in the majority?

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