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by orbitingpluto 3517 days ago
I liked VS Code when I tried it. But...

It irked me when I found out you had to disable telemetry per project/file. That really should be a global setting. Obtaining telemetry data through attrition is not something that will spur my adoption.

I'd rather stay with Atom, vim, or even Eclipse.

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Umm, you can disable it globally. They have pretty amazing documentation, 3 seconds of searching later:

http://vscode-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/supporting/faq/#...

Windows

  Close VS Code.
  Open the command prompt.
  Type cd %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Visual Studio Code\resources\app
  Type notepad product.json
  Replace enableTelemetry=true with enableTelemetry=false.
  Save the file via CTRL+S and exit Notepad. Collection of usage data should now be disabled.
OS X / Linux

  Close VS Code.
  Open the terminal
  For:
  Mac Type cd <PATH-TO-VSCode>/Visual\ Studio\ Code.app/Contents/Resources/app
  Linux Type cd <PATH-TO-VSCode>/Resources/app
  Type vi product.json
  Replace enableTelemetry=true with enableTelemetry=false
  Save the file via Esc ZZ. Collection of usage data should now be disabled.
The current docs ( https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/supporting/FAQ#_how-to-di... ) seems to indicate that it's just a normal pref now, you don't need to edit the app to do it.

I wasn't able to figure out what version readthedocs was last generated for.

Telemetry and crash report still enabled by default. Unsure of what will happen upon update if the global settings file is altered.
Yeah, I've been on that page before. Old instructions were per project. Wasn't motivated to keep checking for changes.

Thanks for letting me know. LMGTFYAAA...