There are places where I do need quick suggestions without delay. This helped but its not really ideal to be honest. To help alleviate this issue, I had to go to settings and search for Quick suggestions delay and changed it to 1000 milliseconds. When I was trying to write the word div the auto suggestions popup was conflicting with Emmet hence if I pressed tab at that point, it would auto-complete something else instead of the tags. While this worked, now I run into another issue. Just search for Emmet: Trigger Expansion On Tab under settings and voila, now you use TAB. Luckily, there is a setting to change it to use the TAB key. However, if you are used to use TAB to use emmet, in VS Code its not configure to use it with TAB by default. The reason is simple, its a must have tool that can help with speeding up the process of writing code especially in HTML.
Emmet and suggestionsĮmmet is one of those plugins that come built-in in both IntelliJ Idea and VS Code. In VS Code I decided to leave it turned off for now. So anyway, in this case if the autosave feature is on, then it can be a hustle. Note that this is not truly accurate as there are some development environments which do not reload the css files if you did not touch them. For example, if I edited some CSS on the fly in the browser to see how an element would look, if I make changes to my local files in a development environment where auto-reload on save is used then I will lose the changes in the browser. For this feature, there are use-cases though which I do not want it to be turned on. With that mind, lets discover some of them Autosaveīy default, the autosave feature of files is not turned on in VS Code. I am almost certain that this section in the future will get updates because I said earlier, I transition as I need certain features that I am missing from IntelliJ IDE. To make this article as clear as possible, I decided to break it down into three sections. I transition as I need certain features so this post will have updates in the future.
Hence, in order to transition from an IDE like IntelliJ Idea I had to do some digging into replicating the "default" features that come out of the box from the IDE into VS Code.ĭisclaimer - This is not an exhaustive article but rather a work in progress. If you have any familiarity with those then you know they are pretty fast and somewhat minimal in features. In my previous post, I explained the reasons behind dropping IntelliJ Idea for VS Code and in this post, I will try to explain how well the transition has been so far and what I learned.Īs you know, VS Code is a code editor like Atom and Sublime. How I transitioned from IntelliJ Idea to VS Code