Anyone here use Brackets for making websites?

I will look into it. Have heard of it but know nothing about it..... yet.

If you single-click a file in the file explorer pane, it opens the file in preview mode (notice the filename in the tab bar is italicized). This is so you can click around files until you find what you're looking for without crowding up your workspace. To really open the file, double-click it. Then it will stay open and you can open as many more as you want.

At least I think that's what's happening. I have never seen VSCode behave differently by file extension.

No problem, and I hope you like VS Code as much as I do. It is very popular, and I really have only read and experienced great things with it.

I don't write php, but I know that many php devs use it and I see tons of php extensions in the marketplace (press the "building blocks" icon in the toolbar). There are also tons of WordPress extensions if that's what you're using.

And if it being Microsoft bothers you at all, you can get VSCodium instead. It pulls straight from the VSCode repository and strips out the Microsoft telemetry and settings.

There are a plethora of VSCode themes out there, just Google "VSCode Themes". You even get a handful with the install File>Preferences>Color Theme. If you really want to you can make your own theme and change each color to your liking, but that seems like a lot of work and a waste of time given that with so many themes already out there, someone has to have already made one that suits your preferred aesthetic.

The color scheme isn't a problem. No biggie.

I love that I can search for a string in all of my project folders at once. In my old program I had to do each folder individually.

I haven't found a way to map keystrokes to things like break tags or div etc. yet!

Thanks, I actually found that program last night, but have not installed it. It us encouraging to here that someone else thinks it might be a viable option and not a piece of garbage.

In case you decide to use it, this should get you headed in the right direction generating tags. Here is what my function looks like for div tags. It can be recycled for any tag really just make sure to change the "hotkey" so none of them use the same one. If you want the closing tag to stay on the same line as the opening tag (like with span or something) then removing the second "Send" line should work.



Note: this relies on VSCode to autocomplete the closing tag. This is why the function Sleeps for 250ms. If you are having issues with the function make sure you are in an HTML doc, the autocomplete feature is on in VSCode or up the sleep time to 500ms, test it out, then gradually lower the milliseconds until you reach the fastest speed that works consistently.

I'd also recommend setting your hotkey script up to run automatically on startup so you don't have to remember to start it each time you start the computer up.

Installed it. Glad I did. Not a trashy program at all. Works great!

VS Code is very cool. Has lots of stuff I will never use since I haven't done any computer programming in decades.

Have it pretty customized now so my php files are treated like html files for error checking etc. With extensions I am now able to beautify and minimize the code without going to online pages to do that then have to replace the code and upload it.

Happy.

Thanks for all the help.

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VS Code might be the best thing Microsoft has done in its entire existence

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VS Code is nice... but does not hold a candle to the full Visual Studio IMO.