VSCodeDiff

[David Moe]

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https://github.com/logicxd/alfred-vscodediff 

 

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Requires Visual Studio Code.

 

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Edited January 3 by David Moe
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[vitor]

Welcome @David Moe,

 

The workflow is using Workflow Environment Variable instead of Workflow Configuration. Though it doesn’t seem like it should need any configuration at all, seeing as they point to temporary files. An alternative approach would be to eschew the variables and write the files to the workflow’s cache.

 

[David Moe]

Thanks!

 

Did not know about the cache, yeah that'll work. I've gone ahead and changed it to use the cache as well as set up the Workflow Configuration for the location to the Visual Studio Code executable in case people have a different location.

 

Check it out at https://github.com/logicxd/alfred-vscodediff/releases/tag/1.3.1-beta 

[vitor]

Looks like you forgot to attach the packaged workflow to the release.

[David Moe]

Whoops, uploaded now. 

[vitor]

That is a nice improvement. There’s another one you can make in that vein: Instead of three Keyword Inputs, have a single one. In the Workflow’s Configuration, add another text field for the keyword and use the variable as the value in the Kewyord Input. The documentation explains how that’s done. Here’s the workflow with the changes (I’d submit a PR, but the contents aren’t in the GitHub repo). I’ve also made made a small tweak to call the current configuration “VSCode CLI” and quoted the vscode variable (otherwise spaces in the path would trip up your code).

[David Moe]

All those changes sounds good to me! I've made it as a 1.3.2 release https://github.com/logicxd/alfred-vscodediff/releases/tag/1.3.2-beta 

 

Feel free to make a PR and add the Workflow to the GitHub repo for credit

[vitor]

1 hour ago, David Moe said:

Feel free to make a PR and add the Workflow to the GitHub repo for credit

 

Not necessary, I’m satisfied with having the changes in. But thank you, and for the quick changes. This will be in soon at http://alfred.app/workflows/logicxd/vscodediff/

[xilopaint]

@David MoeThanks for this simple and useful workflow. Any reason for using /usr/local/bin/code as the default path of the CLI instead of just using code, which would make it work for Homebrew installations in both ARM and Intel Macs?

[David Moe]

@xilopaint no specific reason, I just didn't consider Intel Macs. I'll update the workflow on my GitHub, not sure what the process is for updating on Alfred Gallery. Thanks for the feedback! 

Edited April 18 by David Moe

[Stephen_C]

38 minutes ago, David Moe said:

not sure what the process is for updating on Alfred Gallery

If you make a new release on GitHub it will be picked up by the Gallery—which will update automatically after a short delay (just to allow for any small fixes to the new release).

 

Stephen

[xilopaint]

2 hours ago, David Moe said:

@xilopaint no specific reason, I just didn't consider Intel Macs. I'll update the workflow on my GitHub, not sure what the process is for updating on Alfred Gallery. Thanks for the feedback! 

 

Actually, /usr/local/bin is more commonly used on Intel Macs than on ARM. If you install VS Code by Homebrew in an ARM Mac, for example, the binary will be placed in /opt/homebrew/bin.