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The power of VS Code

Rafal Pienkowski on December 11, 2017

I want to start with a couple of questions... Are you using VS Code editor? Are you writing articles to dev.to? Or are you documenting your work...
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Jake Varness •

VS Code is awesome!! It's literally what I use for most things

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Rafal Pienkowski •

Me too and day after day I see more reasons to use this tool.

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tiff •

I write most of my technical documentation and other GitHub related things in VS Code. I know it has built-in markdown support but I have a few markdown plugins to help with tables and autocomplete. Great article Rafal!

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Christian Vasquez •

Could you share which plugins are those? I would like to check them out :)

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tiff •

Yep! Markdown All-in-One, Markdown TOC, and Table Formatter.

These are just a few of the markdown utilities but these are the ones I most need.

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lukaszkuczynski •

Excellent mr Rafał. I was looking for something like this for a long time. Markdown support for N++ is OK, but the live preview that follows scrolling is cool! Thanks

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Rafal Pienkowski •

I'm glad to hear that. It's always darkest before dawn :)

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Patrick Tingen •

Gee, thanks for the tip, I was just searching for a nice md editor with live preview for my github project. Definitely worth exploring.

Oh and btw, mandarins are delicious indeed

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Rafal Pienkowski •

True. Mandarins are delicious,eating them is healthy and as in my case they can be useful.

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Jithesh. KT •

Hey thanks for the tip. Little bit off topic : Can anyone suggest a good FTP file browser plugin for VC.?

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Sergio Corrales •

There's probably a better one out there, but this is the one I've used: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

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Carl Vuorinen •

Thanks for the tip.

And for anyone who is not into learning more keyboard shortcuts, you can also open it from the "command palette" (by pressing Ctrl+Shift+P and typing "mark...")

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Rafal Pienkowski •

Good point.

Here is cheatsheet which I'm using. It could help too.