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by CjHuber 140 days ago
I don't like the way it is handled. Imagine Excel actively prompting you with a pop up every time you open a sheet: "Do you trust the authors of this file? If not you will loose out on cool features and the sheet runs in restricted mode"

No it doesn't because restricted mode without Macros is the default and not framed like something bad or loosing out on all of those nice features,
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theamazing0 140 days ago
I think Excel does do something similar though with Protected View. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-is-protected...
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CjHuber 140 days ago
Exactly that's why I was making the comparison, It's not a in your face PopUp, where users get used to just pressing the blue, highlighted and glowing "I trust the authors" button without even being told what features they'd miss out on.

The Protected view in Office instead tells you "Be careful" and to only activate editing when you need to.

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WorldMaker 140 days ago
It's also worth noting that this behavior evolved very slowly. It took Excel decades to learn how to best handle the defaults. Excel started with modals similar to VS Code's "Do you want to allow macros? This may be dangerous", found too many users self-trained on "Allow" as the only button that needed to be pressed and eventually built the current solution.

If VS Code is still on the same learning curve, hopefully it speeds up a bit.

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WorldMaker 140 days ago
Right, I think one of the biggest problems is the name "Restricted Mode" itself. It sounds like a punishment, when it is a safer sandbox. Restricted Mode is great and incredibly useful. But it is unsurprising how people don't like to be in Restricted Mode when it sounds like a doghouse out back, not a lobby or atrium on the way to the rest of the building.
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ses1984 140 days ago
The point of an IDE is that it does stuff a simple text editor does not.
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alistairSH 140 days ago
Sure, but as noted elsewhere, the IDEs generally don't "do stuff" by default just on opening a file folder. VSCode, by default, will run some programs as soon as you open a folder.
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12_throw_away 140 days ago
> the IDEs generally don't "do stuff" by default just on opening a file folder

In any JetBrains IDE: Settings > Tools > Startup Tasks.

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ses1984 134 days ago
Even something as simple as syntax highlighting is a vector.
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