Visualstudio

VisualStudio is now cross-platform, and it's core is OSS.

Documentation

official docs

Install

Archlinux

pacman -S code   # oss-release of vscode

Usage

• Menus are designed to be searched-for/found using Ctrl+Shift+P (ex: installing extensions)
• Symbols are searched using Ctrl+t
• Files are searched using Ctrl+p

Plugins

There is no builtin way of configuring extensions, and having visualstudio automatically install them. There is however a commandline interface.

You can find extension ids listed within visualstudio, following the name (ex janjoerke.align-by-regex ).

code --install-extension <extension-id>

General
vscode plugin: neovim	vscode controls nvim backend
vscode plugin: vscodevim	vim emulation/nvim integration
vscode plugin: align-by-regex	essentially tabular.vim
Python
vscode plugin: python	python base package
Java
vscode plugin: java extension pack	java base package