Comments on: Visual Studio 2008 and ViEmu (and Codekana)

By: admin

admin — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:40:07 +0000

Claire, glad to hear that everything ended up fine! I certainly take a lot of care in keeping up with Microsoft updates. Vi/vim editing becomes critical at a certain point!

By: Claire

Claire — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:12:59 +0000

I had a bad feeling in my stomach when I first opened VS2008 and it didn’t have viEmu, but I downloaded the latest version and uninstalled/reinstalled and now it is all good.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:22:38 +0000

Thanks OJ, I’ll have a look into it. There may easily be some interaction with the XAML language service.

I don’t understand your example very well, maybe because of the blog mangling the angle brackets. I’ll do some alt-tabbing myself and try to find out what’s happening.

By: OJ

OJ — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 04:43:01 +0000

Whoops, can you edit my comment for me and add the respective < and > tags please?? Thanks.

By: OJ

OJ — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 04:42:17 +0000

Hi Jon,

I’ve only noticed one thing so far that is quite annoying, and I think it’s specific to the XAML editor. I have discovered this while playing around with WPF and constantly ALT-Tabbing between VS and reference material (MSDN).

What I’m doing is editing some properties of a XAML node, and ALT-tabbing to the reference. When I ALT-Tab back, sometimes the cursor position is moved, and the name of the node that I’m editing (or sometimes the previous one) is selected and highlighted. For example if I’m working on code that looks like this:

<– this is where i’m editing (cursor location)

I ALT-Tab twice and it looks like this:

I hope that makes sense. I’m not sure if it’s a VS bug, or a ViEmu bug (I haven’t tried it to see if it behaves the same when ViEmu is disabled. But it’s a bit annoying.

Give me a shout if it’s not clear. Just thought i’d let you know.
Cheers mate!
OJ