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Automatically unfollow participant on actions

Open MichaelBitard opened this issue 1 year ago • 4 comments

Describe what happened: When you follow a participant, and starts editing something in the same file, as soon as the followee scrolls or move from file, you move too since you still follow him/her.

What was your system configuration? Product and Version [VS/VSCode]: VSCode OS Version[macOS/Windows]: Linux Live Share Extension Version: v1.0.5828 Target Platform or Language [e.g. Node.js]: Node

Steps to Reproduce / Scenario:

  1. Start a liveshare session
  2. Follow a participant
  3. Let the participant opens a file
  4. Start editing something in this file
  5. The participant changes file
  6. You continue your edition in the new file

I understand (by reading https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/live-share/issues/783) that some of these choices are deliberate.

Could it be possible for them to be configurable? We pair program all day and it's really painful to be teleported on another file when your are typing something, or to see the editor scrolls out of caret when editing too.

IMHO, as soon as a user does something in vscode, the follow should be deactivated. (I can understand why this is not the default behavior, but it will be a really game changer if we could activate this as a setting)

MichaelBitard avatar Feb 14 '23 15:02 MichaelBitard

Hi @MichaelBitard - Thanks for the feedback. Have you tried following to the side? This splits the editor tabs and allows you to continue editing while following to the side. Screenshot 2023-02-14 at 10 21 44

derekbekoe avatar Feb 14 '23 18:02 derekbekoe

Hi @derekbekoe, thanks for you reply. It is indeed a solution, although a partial one, because (but that may be just how my brain works) when I follow someone, I look into the moving tab and I want to edit inside this one.

MichaelBitard avatar Feb 15 '23 08:02 MichaelBitard

For me, this is the number one issue with Live Share. It drives me insane. When my colleague starts clicking around in files while I type, (almost) every place he clicks gets one or more characters, causing multiple files to be broken. I cannot undo, as I do not know which files were messed up and I lose my train of thought.

Unfortunately I need Live Share for now.

ErikvO avatar Mar 20 '23 07:03 ErikvO

I'm happy we are not alone on this. This is a massive frustration, and since the undo action is common, not user related, you start to CTRL+Z and it erases what your coworker was typing, so instead of just ending with you being "annoyed", it impacts your teammate too

MichaelBitard avatar Mar 20 '23 08:03 MichaelBitard