pastermil comments on Sometimes VSCode just shows you a gal

Sometimes VSCode just shows you a gal (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by yogurtwrong@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

How is this possible? Some random gal's github shows up?

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[–] burkybang@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not random. Her GitHub username is “type”, so “@type” tags her.

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 21 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

That's "automatically turning domain names into http hyperlinks" but even worse.

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[–] renzev@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Still better than automatically converting :) to 😃

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 2 years ago

Eh.

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[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

That's only useful in commit messages, issue discussions and stuff like that. Why would the devs even make that execute in source files, where it's all but guaranteed to be a false match??

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