Test extension tips

[jrieken]

• OS X @waderyan
• Windows @gregvanl
• Linux @aeschli

VS Code can now suggest extensions based on the files you use (open/edit). That that

• you can access extension tips from the command palette
• you can access extension tips via ext tips
• there is a setting extensions.showTips that controls if a status bar item shows to indicate that there are tips
• the status bar item is not in-ur-face all the time, it only shows once per extension suggestion

[waderyan]

@jrieken I tried this today with the latest Alpha build. Really cool! How do we determine what extensions to suggest?

I have done the following.

1. I have an express Node app and didn't get any suggestions.
2. I created a test.php file and didn't get any suggestions.
3. I created a Go file and got the Go extension as a suggestion.

My feedback is I wish it was more robust. For example, with PHP I want to see the five or six suggestions that show up in search. I realize this is simply a start to the feature so take my feedback with a grain of salt.

[egamma]

Chiming in since Jo in out for a while.

The tips are driven by a curated list of extensions in
vscode\src\vs\workbench\parts\extensions\electron-browser\extensionTips.json.
There are currently extension suggestions for PHP, but we take PRs 😄

[waderyan]

Excellent thanks.

[waderyan]

This is a really neat feature. What are our thoughts on expanding it? I'm thinking about writing a script that fills in the json file with language extensions that have greater than 1000 installs.

Maybe this was simply a proof of concept. I really like it as a user.