Help me migrate from Sublime Text to VS Code

I want to migrate from Sublime Text to Visual Studio Code, but as a long time ST user, there's a couple of plugins that I'm really missing on VS Code, and I hope that this awesome community can help me find some alternatives — I'm hesitant to invest the time in configuration and learning some new keyboard shortcuts before I know that I can be a productive as I'm used to in ST :)

And hopefully someone will also benefit form this post and the comments, and discover awesome new plugins!

Missing

1. BracketGuard: Highlights mismatched brackets.
2. GitSavvy: A curses-like git client, which runs inside ST. Features, staging, committing, rebasing, branching and more!
3. MarkAndMove: Save selections and recall them — save multiple and recall all to create a complex selection.
4. MiniPy: Evaluate selected text as Python code, and replace the selected text with the stringified result.
5. MoveText: Drag/move text around with the keyboard… useful for swapping lines and such, without having all lines displaced as with a cut-paste operation.
6. MultiEditUtils: Immensly useful tools for working with multiple selections — includes many functions, listed below and all demonstrated with gifs at the plugin homepage.
   • Preserve case while editing selection contents
   • Split the selection
   • Extend the current selection with the last selection
   • Normalize and toggle region ends
   • Jump to last region
   • Cycle through the regions
   • Strip selection
   • Remove empty regions
   • Quick Find All for multiple selections
   • Use selections as fields
7. Origami: Easily control the layout of the editor using keyboard shortcuts to move buffers around to create or destroy side-by-side views.
8. AlignTab: Advanced alignment, which is also useful for aligning tables in LaTeX.

Comments

[rhymes]

Ok, let's see if I can help you.

1. instead of "guarding" mismatched brackets what if you just color them with Bracket Pair Colorizer ? This way you can instantly see if they match or not

2. I'm not 100% sure why you need a "terminal based client" inside a GUI but what works for me may not work for you and vice versa. My suggestion here is to actually learn how to use the builtin git support. I read many people who swear by it. I still use the terminal sometimes but have a look at it. Other two extensions I can suggest are Git Blame and Git ignore

3. Don't know if it's enough but VSCode has multi cursor selection

4. You can bring Jupyter/IPython inside VSCode and do lots of stuff, see here donjayamanne.github.io/pythonVSCod...

5. Don't need an extension, Opt(Alt) + up and down and you can move text around. You can also reconfigure the bindings

6. Don't know if there's "one" extension that does everything. That's too advanced for me :D I'm sure you can find extensions for some or all of the things you listed. Text Pastry which is multiple selections with powerups seems a start.

7. No need for an extension. By default VSCode lets you only split vertically or horizontally. To move a buffer/file to one of the other splits you can drag it manually or use shortcuts:

You get to that window by pressing CMD-K, CMD-S or Code -> Preferences -> Keyboard shortcuts

1. There are a few code alignment plugins, but you'll have to try them :-)

[rhymes]

Also checkout Code Runner

[AllanLRH]

Thanks for the suggestions, I'd have a look at them, especially the Git-ones (along with the build in Git support), and the Jupyter plugins.

[AllanLRH]

There are some points where I'm not that satisfied with ST:

• I'm not very fond of with the Anaconda plugin (Python IDE-like features) for Sublime, especially I find it's intellisense-autocompletion to be slow, unstable and often unable to show the documentation for a function. But AFAIK Anaconda i the best Python plugin for ST.
• I'd really like a build in debugger, like the one in VS Code.
• VS Code is free... it's a minor problem, since I bought ST, but still...

And some points in favor of VS Code:

• I've heard good things about the Python package for VS Code.
• Juputer Notebook integration!
• VS Code seems more extensible than ST. Sharing technology base with a lot of web-apps is must be an advantage when comes to enabling stuff like the Jupiter integration, without having major functionality break when a new version of the browser-based app is released.
• I also believe that with time, the community of VS Code will grow larger than that of ST, so that's probably where I should be at. I've been following the ST package releases in my news-reader (Feedly, using RSS), and it seems to have slowed down quite a bit. Nowadays a lot of packages seems to be color schemes/themes, syntax-definitions or linter-plugins for specialized language... it could also be seen as a sign that there's already a bunch of nice packages out there which is simply continuously updated, but I also get the sense that "innovation" have stalled,and there's few attempts at doing stuff like Jupyter integration, and similar "workflow disrupting" stuff.

[Evaldo Bento]

That's what I wanted to ask. He seems to be happy with Sublime. Changing only for the sake it? If a tool gives you what you need, you can use it even if it is not the coolest one on the block :-)

[Jithesh. KT]

VC users, please suggest an FTP file explorer. I am talking about browsing my FTP server right from my side panel and edit, save...etc.

[birliban]

Hello, did you find something for BracketGuard yet?

And apart from that, how did you make this cool coding / examples gifs?

[AllanLRH]

I've never really got started with VS Code, and stayed in Sublime Text for the time being... while I think that VS Code provide better customizability, the plugins just haven't caught up to the quality of this in ST yet. So I never found a BracketGuard replacement :(

The gifs are mostly taken from the documentation sites for the plugins. If I were to make the myself, I'd just use the screen-recording feature of Quicktime, and make it into a gif using the command line.