Software Update: Visual Studio Code 1.13.1

Visual Studio Code is an open source code editor with support for IntelliSense, debugging, git and code snippets. Support for the most common scripting and programming languages ​​is presentand can also be done via extensions to be expanded. Microsoft released version 1.13.1 a few days ago, which fixes some issues from version 1.13. The announcements for both releases are as follows:

Update 1.13.1:

The update addresses these issues

• Text disappeared after update to 1.13
• Why is there no Chinese after the update?
• Contributed tree views can crash the explorer
• VS code icons is distorted when invoked from the command line
• Terminals created before panel is initialized have the wrong width
• Terminal: Unicode characters in or near linked text are causing links to be duplicated

May 2017 (version 1.13)

Welcome to the May 2017 release of Visual Studio Code. There are a number of significant updates in this version that we hope you will like, some of the key highlights include:

• Changes to settings defaults – Enabled by default: extensions auto-update, editor drag and drop, and minimap (outline view).
• Set multiple cursors with Ctrl/Cmd + Click – Add multi cursors just like Sublime Text and Atom.
• Improved Git merge – Inline merge actions with Accept Changes CodeLens.
• Better IntelliSense details – Easily toggle full suggestion documentation.
• Emmet abbreviations display – Preview Emmet expansions as you type.
• Enhanced snippets – Increase your productivity with multi-cursor and nested snippets.
• Faster debugger performance – Stepping through source code is significantly faster.
• File links in exception stack traces – Jump directly to source code from exception stack traces.
• Docker and MERN debugging recipes – Debug configuration examples for Docker and MERN stack projects.
• More workbench theming colors – We’ve added more VS Code customizable colors.
• Better NVDA support – Accessibility improvements for the NVDA screen reader.

The release notes are arranged in the following sections related to VS Code focus areas. Here are some further updates:

• workbench – Filenames in symbol search, disable menu bar mnemonics.
• Editor – Resizable Find widget, new folding control settings.
• Languages – JSX/TSX component highlighting, Markdown headers in symbol search.
• Debugging – Copy All from Debug Console, local/remote paths in launch configurations.
• Tasks – Autodetect and customize Gulp and Grunt tasks to run in VS Code.
• Extension Authoring – Custom views in the Explorer, reference theme colors.