I've recently noticed a bug in the VS Code editor. Usually double clicking on a word selects the entire word. I use this a lot in combination with CMD + D to then select other instances of the word in a file. But its stopped working on my work laptop running 1.65.2.
I do not have the same issue on my personal machine running 1.66.0 but I can't update to this version as updates are centrally controlled by my company.
I've seen a few posts about this online with it affecting other users but haven't really come across any solutions.
Anyone got any ideas?
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Since some time ago, when copying text from UTF-8 enabled terminal windows (on Windows!) into a GitHub issue (from Web browser), seem to remove the newlines (\n), causing all text to become one very long line. This is a sudden and highly annoying issue, that I am not able to resolve.
I am sure sure the text as copied has not changed for years, since I have been using the same various terminals and Windows and pasting into all other places such as other programs and web sites, work fine.
Q: Any idea what is going on?
(I have also tried to find a way to report the issue to github, but since the MS acquisition, there is no longer a sensible way to report bugs!)
Other SO posts have suggested to use this repo for tracking, but still require you to send email.
(Who the heck uses emails for bug reporting these days!?)
Using Visual Studio Code I have installed a few extensions (like Guidelines showing vertical dotted lines between pairs of matching brackets). When I start VS Code I can see all my extensions working fine in the Editor window.
However, when I switch to another tab within VS Code, I no longer see the Guidelines or evidence of any extension working in the new editor tab. Worst of all, when I then switch back to my original tab, all the guidelines etc that were there a few seconds ago are gone!
To fix the issue I have to restart VS Code. This can't be right! Has anyone hit the same problem?
I have tried uninstalling VS Code where it warns me some components could not be uninstalled and I have to do them manually. It doesn't tell me which. When I then reinstall, the extensions are visible (without me reinstalling them) but again I hit the same issues as above.
Please help?
Seems like having too many extensions installed, or perhaps one that is misbehaving behind the scenes, causes this problem. Reduce the number of installed extensions. Use Help->Developer Tools -> Console to see if there are any messages relating to the Extensions server
I am wondering if something is wrong with my computer (or myself), because I can't seem to drag & drop a file into Visual Studio Code to open it in the editor. Closing an opened folder first doesn't make a difference. VSCode always shows me the 'stop sign', in every spot I tried (the editor, the opened tab bar, an existing opened file, ...).
Why does VSCode block this ?
(I have experienced this in earlier versions as well. Currently on v1.6 on Windows 7.)
Searching for a solution, I stumbled on this page, where one commenter explains:
I think you are running into the security issue where lower permission processes cannot send messages to higher permission processes. Explorere.exe, running at normal permission levels, cannot send the window message to winword.exe, running elevated.
I am indeed always running VSCode as Administrator, but not my Explorer windows.
When I run VSCode in non-administrator mode (so just my regular user), drag-and-drop works fine.
I feel silly as I lost 15 minutes looking into this. In case it helps:
Make sure you are not trying to open files from a zip file...
Cheers.
I have a number of monitors. I typically move between up to 4 or 5 workspaces for different areas of focus during the day (simply different projects, PyCharm for Python projects vs Eclipse for Java projects, e-mail and project management activities, etc.)
I would like to throw a chat application up on a monitor that would be mapped into all workspaces so that it's always up attracting my attention and doesn't change when I change workspaces.
I don't see in Cinnamon any option to do this and find no search expression getting me help in Google to solve it.
At the moment, this is not possible in Cinnamon. It is a long standing feature request (since 2012!).
However, there are alternatives to it. Namely, the program devilspie2 (available in the repositories) allows one to manage windows and their placement, with the help of a small Lua script.
Here1 is how I stick my Firefox and Pidgin window on all workspaces, while some other windows in a given workspace WORK (because I don't want to see them when I'm not working (: ).
-- Make windows of all these apps visible on all workspaces
GLOBAL_WINDOWS='Firefox;System Monitor;Pidgin'
if (GLOBAL_WINDOWS:find(get_application_name())) then
pin_window();
end
-- Firefox should be tall maximised
if (get_application_name() == 'Firefox') then
maximize_vertically();
end
-- Put the Sublime on their correct workspaces
if (get_application_name() == 'Sublime Text' and get_window_name():find('WORK')) then
set_window_workspace(4);
end
This should be placed in a config file in your home directory. Check the documentation :). And don't forget to set devilspie2 as the first startup app.
1 also posted in that issue
I have an issue on a client machine that seems to be interferring with a word addin that ive built.
When any word document opens on the client machine, a second blank document opens also.
Ive seen this issue on a number of different machines but havent seen an explanation as to why.
Has anyone else seen this behaviour in word and have you managed to stop the second document opening?
Cheers
If this issue is happening regardless of whether or not your addin is installed, perhaps the user has a strange macro running in their default template file (normal.dot)?
You could try replacing normal.dot with a version from a machine which doesn't have the problem to see if that helps!?
If you are delivering your addin as a .dot, it is very easy to accidentally set it up to have a document in it that opens. This, of course, assumes that the problem follows the addin. If it does not follow the addin then you don't have a programming problem.
It happens to me in Windows Explorer when the preview pane is enabled on it.
If you double-click a word document then 2 instances of Word open, one of them is with empty document.
Disabling the preview pane eliminates the problem.