Error handling in Sublime Text Plugin API - plugins

I'm creating my first sublime plugin to be used internally and was wondering if there's a way to stop the plugin from executing and display an error message on screen like an alert?
I took a look at view#show_popup() but this didn't render for me. Below is how I attempted to show it:
if "WebContent" in subdirectories:
directory = ROOT_DIR + "/WebContent"
elif "Content" in subdirectories:
directory = ROOT_DIR + "/Content"
else:
self.view.show_popup('Directory not found', location=-1)
Working Principle:
The plugin takes some data from one view and then pastes them in another view. The plugin has two TextCommands. One command takes the data from the first view, opens a new view and then executes the 2nd command on the new view. The above snippet is in the 2nd command.
I was unable to find any resources to help with show_popup() or any other error handling.
Does any one have possible ideas?

view.show_popup() is for showing things like hover popups next to the cursor; it's used for things like the built in functionality for going to references/definitions for functions:
While you could in theory use this for error messages, it may not be the sort of user experience that anyone would expect.
Your code above is technically valid, but since the content is expected to be minihtml it may be hard to see because as just a single string all you're going to see is just the text (i.e. you have no font style, padding, etc):
Perhaps more importantly, when location is -1, the popup appears at the point in the buffer closest to the first cursor position, so depending on your circumstance it may be appearing in a place you don't expect, and then vanishing away before you can scroll to see it, etc.
What you want here is sublime.error_message(); given a string, it will display that string in a dialog for the user to interact with, and it also logs the error into the Sublime console as well so that there's an additional trace.

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vscode.workspace.openTextDocument fails silently

With the same value for Uri, openTextDocument fails to have any discernible effect yet executeCommand successfully opens the document.
vscode.workspace.openTextDocument(uri);
vscode.commands.executeCommand("vscode.open", uri);
Are there any known problems with vscode.workspace.openTextDocument?
This might simply be a misunderstanding of what openTextDocument() does. It just creates a vscode.TextDocument instance, actually showing it in the UI is independent of that. That's why it's in the vscode.workspace namespace rather than vscode.window.
vscode.window.showTextDocument is used for actually showing a document:
Show the given document in a text editor. A column can be provided
to control where the editor is being shown. Might change the active editor.
vscode.workspace.openTextDocument(...).then(
document => vscode.window.showTextDocument(document));

pycham autocomplete not doing its job

as a new student using pycham doing django project, I have hell of time typing almost every keywords manually, I have auto complete option checked in setting but still tons of keywords wont show up!
title = models.CharField(max_length=300)
image = models.ImageField(upload_to="image/")
static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
.
.
.
none of them showed up on my first typing, some of them showing after first used, how to get pycham to show every possible keywords as I type anytime, even its a first use? tyvm

How to debug long scripts in Chrome?

I have a page which has a script tag. The script inside that tag is very long, but I would like to debug it. Unfortunately, I cannot scroll to the relevant place in the Console, because after a certain length the script is simply not displayed, see the attachment:
As you can see, it ends with
return !filt...
The actual function looks like this:
this.validate = function(filters) {
for (var filter in filters) {
if (!innerValidation(filters[filter].filterType, filters[filter].evaluatedValue, data[filters[filter].key])) {
return filters[filter].isOr;
}
}
return !filters[filter].isOr;
};
Question: Why does Chrome truncate my script and how could that be changed?
Note, that I know I could load it from an external file, but I am actually interested to know the cause of this behavior.
The display of the script is truncated but it still parses and runs the code correctly. You should be able to view the full code in the Sources tab under the relevant host and put breakpoints in there.
If you have a long script, it is best to make that into its own file instead. This will provide you with the best debugging experience.
The Elements panel truncates large scripts to help keep things fast and there is no way to undo this. Therefore, you would need to use some external debugging tools to try and get at this, but even then most of them work best with external script files as well.
Inline scripts should be very short if ever used. For any decent sized chunks of scripting, allocate that into its own file.

What does the parameter "cvid" in Bing search engine stands for?

As I searching something with Bing and I open the Chrome development tools. Here is the request url:
http://cn.bing.com/search?q=%e4%b9%a0%e8%bf%91%e5%b9%b3&go=%e6%8f%90%e4%ba%a4&qs=n&pq=%e4%b9%a0%e8%bf%91%e5%b9%b3&sc=6-6&sp=-1&sk=&cvid=AF49B4165317411D8AFEF30F13BCD108&first=10&FORM=PERE
So, what does the parameter "cvid" stands for? It seems if i don't set a cvid,i can't get the complete result html in my program.
By the way, the cvid is calculated by the browser automaticlly, so how to calculate?
In the Bing search context, cvid represents the JavaScript parameter ConversationId. Bing uses this key to identify your search result collection as its reply to your query, q. Similarly, pq is PartialQuery. These and other parameters may also apply to different kinds of searches, such as image or video searches.
Next, qs is your query's SuggestionType, sc shows your SuggestionCount, and from the suggestion list (dropped down, if enabled), sp shows the SuggestionPosition you chose. In your case, you did not select a suggestion, so &sp=-1. Toward the end of your string, sk is the SkipValue, because you might skip through your result pages, first tells the issuer how many results belong on the first page, and I'll let you figure out what FORM means. ;)
TRY:
Navigate to Bing, conduct a search, choose some options, change your displays, and change some search types. Next, open file explorer and navigate to your Windows OS equivalent of the following path.
C:\Users\{user}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows
Next, you may need to adjust your View temporarily to "Show hidden files, folders, and drives." View tab > Options > Change... > View tab again, and click the bullet to "Show...".
In File Explorer's Search pane at the upper right, enter *.js to find all JavaScript files. It may point you several subfolders deeper, and the folder names may be hashed. Choose a JavaScript file you find interesting, right-click the file, and open it with Notepad, your favorite IDE, or some similar editor. You should see something akin to this (truncated; may not run independently):
var AutoSuggest,__extends,Bing,sa_inst;(function(n){var t;(function(n){var t,i,r,u,f,e;(function(n){n.User="SRCHHPGUSR"})(t=n.CookieNames||(n.CookieNames={})),function(n){n.AutoSuggest="AS"}(i=n.CrumbNames||(n.CrumbNames={})),function(n){n.CursorPosition="cp";n.ConversationId="cvid";n.SuggestionCount="sc";n.PartialQuery="pq";n.SuggestionPosition="sp";n.SuggestionType="qs";n.PreviewPaneSuggestionType="qsc";n.SkipValue="sk";n.PreviewPaneSkipValue="skc";n.Ghosting="ghc";n.Css="css";n.Count="count";n.DataSet="ds";n.SessionId="sid";n.TimeStamp="qt";n.Query="q";n.ImpressionGuid="ig";n.QFQuery="qry";n.BaseQuery="bq";n.FormCode="form";n.HashedMuid="nclid";n.RequestElToken="elvr";n.ElTokenValue="elv";n.AppId="appid";n.History="history";n.NoHistory="nohs";n.ApiTextDecoration="textdecorations";n.ClientId="clientid";n.Market="mkt";n.Scope="scope";n.CountryCode="cc";n.HomeGeographicRegion="hgr";n.SetLang="setlang";n.ZeroInputSerp="zis"}(r=n.QueryParams||(n.QueryParams={}))
I hope that helps someone! :D
I'm also trying to find out what this is :)
I'm pretty sure it's an encryption mechanism for bing a la public key cryptography, though I could be wildly wrong. There is another field called pq - and p's and q's are used a lot in crypto theory.
The field is 32 nibbles (e.g. 8D0E519A91024A08B075654D006C0A14) which equals 128 bits. This number results in some arithmetic operation with the binary value of your search and bing's private key - thus making url generation quite difficult.

Moodle local plugins and save_file

I've created a working form within a local plugin and it is inserting data fine into my custom table.
What I want tyo add now is a filepicker element that upon saving the form puts the file into a specified folder.
The filep[icker itself works fine but when I save the form no file appears, the code I'm using looks like this:
$mform->save_file('lowresCh', '/my_form/', false);
I've tried various things in the 'my_form' bit, but to no avail. The rest of the form still puts its data into the custom table and I can see my file in the mdl_files table (marked as draft).
With full debugging on I can get a warning of:
Warning: copy(/my_form/): failed to open stream: Is a directory in /...../lib/filestorage/stored_file.php on line 390
I don't know if I'm approaching it incorrectly or not, any help or pointers in the right direction would be most appreciated. 
Oh and I have read the Using the File API in Moodle forms page, useful in getting me to the point I'm at, but no further.
I solved it by using the filename as the second argument in save_file() and if I prepend a directory then all of the files will be saved within my plugin in a sub directory which is perfect.
So it looks like this now:
$mform->save_file('lowresCh', 'files/'.$mform->get_new_filename('lowresCh'), false);