The only success I’ve had to connect to my wayland desktop was with Gnome, (at the time, it only worked if I was already logged in, though there was an extension that let you overcome a locked desktop). Once in, it worked well. Sort of. Had no luck with KDE, though that may have changed. VNC gave me no end of difficulty so I gave up.

All in all, a bit of a fiasco. YMMV - I’m sure my own incompetence was to blame (but should it not be… easier?)

Hi there - I’m fairly certain I’ve tried this but it doesn’t give the desired visual feedback you get with multi-cursors or in the example I’m showing.

Ah. So no option with visual feedback…? Wonder if a plugin exists that can help there.

So I looked them up with my Mastodon account to try to follow but quickly discovered that not all searches for ‘BBC’ lead to accounts related to the BBC…l.

It would be faster to just select every end of line and add spaces and then do the edit & Trim later.

Bottom line is that the functionality doesn’t seem to exist in any useful way. Wish it did. I think Ultra Edit, notepad++ visualstudio and mssql mgnt studio must have spoiled me for other editors (in this respect). Even Geany does this (but oh, so janky…)

Unfortunately, that will just skip over the short lines contained within the the block selection, which is exactly what I’m trying not to do (hence the initial question).

Thank you - it seems that this will only be possible with a wrapper script (which was going to be my next course of action). I can definitely use what you’ve written here as an accelerator, though!

Thank you for the response. I’m not sure I’d have any idea how to create a function for this at this point. Lack of support for this feature is pretty much the main reason I’m shifting away from vscode. (Also looking at nvim as I want a more powerful go-to solution for CLI editing…)

Certainly frustrating - it was my most used feature when I was coding SQL extensively…

I’ve got that, but I want the container home prefix to be named, dynamically, after the container upon creation as a subdirectory of a container home prefix ‘parent’ directory I’ve already created.

Desired outcome -> All dbxs get homes in a subfolder of ~/dbx in turn, named after the container name I provide upon creation.

So… a container called ‘utility’ would automatically home itself in ~/dbx/utility, and one called ‘archtest’ would go in ~/dbxarchtest, etc.

As it stands, the config gives each container the same home directory (albeit separate from the host, so at least I’ve got that…)

Not being able to see the source code of extensions, and having them loaded and executing remotely really ought to be a non-starter, but for some reason we find ourselves ok with this?

Maybe there are checks and balances? I really don’t know - but I certainly don’t know what they are.

I’m actively exploring alternative cross-platform editors for this and other vscode usability reasons.

Vscode remote ssh is clever, to be clear, and in many cases is ideal. But it seems to me that they really need to ship an out-of-the-box extension that does edit over sftp with local caching as a fallback option. Notepad++ does this and it’s great.

I know that there are a bunch of 3rd party extensions that seem to do this but most seem a little bit janky as you dig in to it. This needs to be an official Microsoft extension.

In general, I don’t want my IDE running or depositing anything on my servers that I haven’t explicitly asked for, especially if a main goal is to simply edit config files easily via a familiar editor application. Basically a ‘leave no trace’ philosophy (for the sake of predictability, consistency and control, not for any nefarious reasons).

(that said, remote ssh with vscode server is fantastic - but only when I actually want it).

This is the only suitable comment.

Can you not just backup the pg txn logs (with periodic full backups, purged in accordance with your needs?). That’s a much safer way to approach DBs anyway.

(exclude the online db files from your file system replication)

Most of the Deloitte consultants I’ve dealt with are already bots, whether or not they are wearing a power suit.

I AM shaking my head… 🙂

I thought that was Shaking My Head…? Similar uses, I guess. But if it’s as you say, I may stop using.

IBM PC, circa 1982(?)

Lol - I was parodying your comment, actually 🙂. Not sure if fingerprint is standard api, but I suspect there is some proprietary stuff going on.

In the end it’s not about blaming Linux, it’s about getting adoption to a critical mass where commercial entities can realize a business case to support. Then the ecosystem will thrive.

Linux (and BSD for router workload) absolutely owns the server world. Even MS let’s you run SQL Server on Linux). The desktop isn’t there yet wrt adoption, but it’s growing. Things like fingerprint sensors are definitely in the desktop (closer to end user) world and if it’s the business use case that is the area of most growth, as I suspect it is (in India, especially) then I think these sorts of modules have higher likelihood of being adopted.

Exactly! But I really, really hope that the growing share in India and other places starts to catalyze commercial development.

Immutable packages like flatpak (or whatever is your format of choice) makes the software side way, way easier. It’ll take a bit more convincing to get HW makers to dive in though.

It’s no joke making supported software let alone HW for multiple flavours sites of kernel, architecture.

It’s a lot better than 25 years ago when I used as a daily driver, but we’re just not quite there yet. I keep trying!

Interestingly, a friend of mine just sent me this https://www.musicradar.com/news/linux-studio.

I will try to help him out with it - it’s promising, as he does not have the hardware/workflow obstacles that I have, but he’s also not as technically minded. I actually really hope becomes workable for him.