February Iteration Plan

[kieferrm]

This plan captures what we work on during February. We will ship early March.

Not unusual and still noteworthy: We will do several explorations that might or might not result in concrete deliverables in this or later releases.

The endgame for this iteration is tracked in #20981.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Legend for annotations:

Mark	Description
🏃	work in progress
✋	blocked task
💪	stretch goal for this iteration
🔵	more details required
🔴	missing issue reference

Workbench

• Evolve welcome experience and react to feedback @chrmarti
• Keybindings for explorer to enable VIM style navigation @bpasero
• Render chording short cuts in the menus @bpasero
• Tasks
  • Provide additional terminal APIs and functionality Explore future direction of the task runner system. #15179 Terminals created in the background by the API will not display/retain any output until the terminal panel is initialized #12000 Allow custom link matchers to be registered in terminal API #18454 @Tyriar
  • Define v2 of task.json, v2 shows the task output in the terminal @dbaeumer
  • Support to assign keybindings to tasks @dbaeumer
• Search: Explore search implementation based on Silver Searcher Explore using a native third-party search tool such as ripgrep or Silver Searcher #19983 @roblourens
• Move the preferences for theme, icon theme from local storage to settings [themes] Put theme configuration to settings.json #7358 @aeschli @sandy081
• Linux auto update/auto signing rpm & repository for Fedora Linux #229 Distribute VS Code via a signed apt repository #2973 @Tyriar

Editor

• Initial version of Minimap support Enhanced Scrollbar (add minimap) #4865 @alexandrudima
• Add ability to copy formatted code to clipboard Add ability to copy formatted code to clipboard #3518 @rebornix
• Support to drag and drop selected text Support to drag and drop selected text #1046 @rebornix

Languages

• C#
  • Bundle the C# TextMate grammar Include C# textmate grammar #19469 @aeschli
• TypeScript/JavaScript
  • TS 2.2 adoption Adopt TypeScript 2.2 #20162 @mjbvz
  • More tsconfig.json validation (see also Use parser to parse tsconfig json instead of using Json.parse TypeScript#12336) Ensure the tsconfig.json validation is exposed #20163
  • Explore improved language support for JSDoc comments Explore improved language support inside JSDoc comments, provide Intellisense for markup and symbols  #20161 @mjbvz
  • Transfer tmGrammar ownership Transfer tmGrammar ownership #20160 @mjbvz @aeschli
• HTML
  • Analyze Live preview options @waderyan

Debugging

• Evolve node2 and node into a single node debugging experience Prepare for node -> node2 transition #19650 @weinand @roblourens
• Column break points Breakpoints on particular column #14784 @isidorn @weinand
• Improve the UI when an exception is thrown Improve exception experience #16860 @isidorn @michelkaporin
• DAP: Support for getting information about a thrown exception Debug Protocol: Support for getting information about a thrown exception vscode-debugadapter-node#97 @weinand
• Ability to select a launch configuration and start a debug target using keyboard Ability to select and start a launch using keyboard #16613 @isidorn @michelkaporin
• Exploration: Live Edit Support Live Reloading Scenarios #6930 @weinand @roblourens
• Exploration: Async Stackframes Debug exploration: Async Callstacks #5552 @roblourens @weinand

Extension Authoring

• Initial version of Source Control Provider API (API will still be in proposed state end of February) Provisional SCM API & git extension #15894 @joaomoreno
• API to show a modal confirmation (required for SCM API) @joaomoreno
• Support that an extension can contribute and define its default language settings Default language-specific settings #19733 @sandy081

Contributions to Extensions

• 🏃‍♂️ php parser completion and investigate contribution @mousetraps
• Go - support single file debugging without a launch config and add configuration snippets @ramya-rao-a
• Docker – update dockerfile_lint version @chrisdias
• Docker – support running windows containers @chrisdias @lostintangent
• Docker – support running Azure CLI in a container @chrisdias

Engineering Items

• Investigate into next Electron update @bpasero
• Performance test infrastructure for start-up performance @jrieken
• Adopt @ types in our bundled extensions Adopt @ types in our code #20164 @mjbvz
• Start website for tools that help us managing issues and releases @sandy081
• 🏃‍♂️ Consolidate telemetry infrastructure @ramya-rao-a

Deferred

• Investigate into implementing 'multi root workspaces', 'multi folder' workspaces @bpasero
• Additional theming options in the workbench (colors, fonts) Support to theme the entire workbench #3112 @aeschli @bpasero
• Investigate more types for CompletionItemKind enum More types for CompletionItemKind enum #2628 @jrieken
• Startup performance: provide a dashboard @jrieken, @seanmcbreen
• Exploration: configuration UI for exception hierarchies improve exception configuration experience #18093 @weinand
• ✋ Support large extension, adopt new marketplace support Adopt Marketplace large extensions support #18146 @joaomoreno
• ✋ Adopt cancellation token support Adopt cancellation token support in TS Server #18053 @mjbvz

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• Keyboard layout improvements Move keybinding dispatching off e.keyCode #17521 @alexandrudima
• Support to contribute to task creation (template) and to contribute problem matchers @dbaeumer
• Go - debug Intellisense support in the Debug Console @ramya-rao-a
• Move lines up/down with auto indent @rebornix
• Go - Support to run without a debugger attached @ramya-rao-a

[alexdresko]

If "Explore: Move the preferences for theme, icon theme from local storage to settings @aeschli @sandy081" means per-workspace theme settings, then YES PLEASE!

[LiPengfei19820619]

I expect this feature to appear in the iteration plan, thanks.

Automatically detect encoding of the file opened #5388

Or, VSCode provides an API to Extension author to set the encoding of the file.

[soulchainer]

Hoping that the «HTML: Analyze Live preview options» , will solve, eventually, the problems with some of the HTML preview extensions available :D.
Basically: «not working» or «only working when the HTML tab is focused and the changes are done directly in the tab» (rendering it useless if you use any kind of template engine that generates HTML).