Comment by c0wb0yc0d3r

18 hours ago

Can you explain how this works? Doesn’t this also stop you from connecting to it over ssh via vs code?

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cozzyd  16 hours ago

Yes that's the point. If vscode didn't insist on installing potentially gigabytes of blobs then this wouldn't be necessary.

(I'm a vimmer anyway... And emacs is too bloated to fit too, conveniently.)

  • skydhash  13 hours ago

    > And emacs is too bloated to fit too, conveniently.

    If you connect via ssh, you could use Tramp. It does not install emacs on the target, but instead use a somewhat permanent connection as a tunnel for most emacs commands (transparently). Works too with docker, podman, distrobox, etc,...

    • cozzyd  11 hours ago

      yep, it's a shame vscode doesn't do something similar and instead copies a huge runtime (evidently, multiple times?!?) onto unsuspecting hosts.