I'm trying to switch to Latex Workshop for VSCode, however I cannot get it to build after change.
I have it enabled in the settings, however it does not autobuild. After building manually the log says
Auto Build Run is temporarily disabled during a second.
at some point. I also made sure that Polling is active.
What is that supposed to mean and what is the fix?
I tried to set up Latex Workshop to autobuild, but it does not.
I think this is a bug. The way that I got auto build working was to enable autosave, because the "build on change" setting does seem to work and so the auto save triggers an auto build. Some instructions to enable autosave can be found e.g. in an answer here (in conjunction with the settings you mention).
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If this is due to an extension, how can I remove that extension?
It overwrites my custom snippet, which bothers me.
I disabled many extensions, but nothing changed.
What you're seeing in your screenshot (suggestions for dba_<etc.>) are not coming from any extension. One can verify that by running the command Developer: Reload With Extensions Disabled and trying triggering suggestions again. So this is just functionality that comes out-of-box with a standard VS Code installation. You don't even need to install any PHP extension to get this.
As for your custom snippets getting "overwritten", it's hard to tell without more detail why this is happening. If you're on version 1.75, it might just be due to a bug that will be fixed later (Ex. As was the case in this other recent Q&A: Visual Studio Code's recent update is disrupting autocompletion).
As #Mark showed in their answer, these are function suggestions. You can disable function suggestions with the following setting:
"[php]": {
"editor.suggest.showFunctions": false
}
Those icons indicate that those are Methods and Functions (not Snippets). See What do the Intellisense icons mean.
So you can try to disable two settings in your Settings UI:
Editor > Suggest: Show Methods
Editor > Suggest: Show Functions - this looks like the right one to disable
Of course, there might be situations where you want to see Function suggestions, so you will have to see if disabling the setting is acceptable.
You can disable those Function suggestions for php files only with this setting (in your settings.json):
"[php]": {
"editor.suggest.showFunctions": false
}
Can anyone explain these three debug symbols on VSCode I have found on the internet?
My vs code has the one with the play icon.
All demos online on debugging have the one in the middle. How do I get that?
Also, node js debugging is installed but I think it shows as disabled, with no option I can find to enable it.
To answer your question directly [TL;DR]: you already have it if you are using the latest version of vscode. It will take you to the same view as the one on the right
If you look at the codicon libray ref the middle one you pointed out is not present.
Visual Studio Code made changes in February 2020 ref that incorporates running and debugging to be something more harmonious:
User studies revealed that new users have difficulties finding how to run their programs in VS Code. One reason is that the existing "Debugging" functionality is not something that they relate to "Running" a program. For that reason, we are making "Run" more prominent in the UI.
The main menu Debug has become the Run menu.
The Run and Debug view has become the Run view and the corresponding Activity Bar icon now shows a large "Play" icon with a small "bug" decoration.
So in other words, there is no difference. The 'Run' and 'Debug' view is synonymous and the icon reflects those changes. As they noted, the Debug view is now called the 'Run' view, but it still offers debugging and breakpoints.
There are 2 possibilities you are running into however:
The tutorials and guides you are using are out-dated (showing an outdated version of vscode)
The tutorial or guide is using an extension that offers debugging capabilities. Extensions have some control over the icon you see
The extension is for single file debugging, according to the June 2020 ref notes, vscode recommends the following:
For debug extensions that want to improve the single file debug experience by adding a "Run" and/or "Debug" button to the editor, we recommend following these guidelines for a consistent look and feel:
Contribute Run and/or Debug commands in the package.json (see Mock Debug):
Use the command titles "Run File"/"Debug File" or "Run Python File"/"Debug Python File".
Use the $(play) icon for Run and $(debug-alt-small) for Debug.
Where their codicon library was updated in June to reflect the following:
As you can see, none of them are prefixed with verbiage like 'run', but they all represent the same functionality.
Additionally, you may see this icon as well:
This represents the panel (view) where the output of your debug will go.
I'd like to configure VS code to work the same as pretty much every editor I've ever used which is to save only when I tell it to and to ask to save modified files if I try to quit.
I've set Auto Save to "off"
I've set Hot Exit to "off"
As it is if I have modified files and I choose quit it just exits immediately, losing all my changes. I could have sworn this used to work.
version 1.41.1
At least, VSCode 1.51 (Oct. 2020) mitigates that situation with:
Prevent accidental close
A new setting window.confirmBeforeClose was added to show a confirmation dialog before closing or leaving the workbench.
Possible values are:
keyboardOnly: The confirmation will only be shown when you use a keybinding to close (for example Ctrl+W or Cmd+W). (default)
always: The confirmation dialog will always be shown, even if you close from a mouse gesture.
never: The confirmation will never be shown.
But, that was only for Web.
VSCode 1.66 (Apr. 2022) will propose the same for the desktop app.
See issue 14710 and PR 147242
The issue was if you're in extension develop mode it just exits. If I pass in --extensionDevelopmentPath some/path then the save options are ignored. Without that it works as it's supposed to.
Apparently that's by design
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/71405
In Visual Studio when I trigger a build it automatically saves all files first. I want the same behavior in vscode, but couldn't find a way to do it short of writing my own extension. Is there any simple method I'm missing?
It's not exactly what you're asking, but will also accomplish what you want: you could enable the auto-save feature:
"files.autoSave": "afterDelay"
After using IntelliJ for a while, I managed to get rid of my habit of pressing Ctrl+S after every second typed-out word, for the most part (since it has auto-save by default). I was happy to find out that VSCode support this somewhat less stressful workflow too.
Other than that, there's also a Files: Save All command you've probably already found.
I'm actually not sure you can do this with the extension API right now - you can definitely trigger the "save all" command easily, but you'd need to be notified of when a build occurs, and I couldn't find any events for this. I think it will definitely be possible after #15179 is resolved though, which should allow extensions to participate in builds.
I'm new to Eclipse. I may need a better understanding or a plugin that would provide me with features described below. While doing some Android development, and I while making changes to my code at one point Eclipse warned me that this emulator doesn't support hot-swapping and if I want to disconnect. I'm used to see status in either the toolbar or in some log from Visual Studio. Is there a way to see this feedback in Eclipse?
My problem is that there are quite much implicit stuff in eclipse I would like get feedback of and control, like whether I'm
connected or not to a device,
if I'm attached to a process on it or not with debugger,
some kind of build log with a timestamp so I know it happened,
the automatic uninstalling and installing of the project on the device
which project is "active" ("featured") in "Run" and "Debug" buttons/configurations
Is there a plugin that can give me explicit commands over these automatic features? Like a toolbar or command. What I would expect of this tool:
be able to indicate the current status (eg. currently connected or not)
gives me control to eg. connect
gives me control to eg. disconnect
Preferably on a toolbar, as I know some of these are available as menu commands.
Furthermore I tried to configure my toolbar by Window menu -> Customize perspective..., but pin-pointing the features I want made my Eclipse put empty space up for the buttons I disabled, and next time I got to the same config screen it got the checkboxes wrong and displayed some stuff active what was actually disabled.