This plugin will ask a running instance of Visual Studio Code which code actions it would suggest based on your cursor position within a buffer. It will then present the response in a nice popup menu and execute the selected action.

Examples include...

• Auto importing a required module
• Infering a type from it's usage
• Removing unrequired imports
• ...whatever Visual Studio Code would do

Visual Studio Code	Vim

I very much prefer as primary editor (numerous reasons). However, Visual Studio Code's code action items are super useful and seem to be consistently ahead of the curve. I wanted to use them within vim.

Goals

• Treat Visual Studio Code as an external language server protocol.
• Benefit from the growing Visual Studio Code community from within vim
• Be language agnostic (ie. don't need to configure numerous language servers within vim - just ask vscode)

• This plugin sends a request to to a running instance of vscode, providing all the deail to execute it's code action providers
• The response is returned and displayed within a popup
• Once selected the plugin knows how to execute vscode's code action implementation (provided as a json payload)

1. The latest version of neovim (which provides the "popup window" functionaity)

brew install --HEAD neovim

2. The neovim node-client remote plugin host

npm install -g neovim

3. The ask vscode server Visual Studio Code extension
4. This plugin

if has('nvim')
  Plug 'kizza/ask-vscode.nvim'
endif

Map a keybinding to execute this plugin within vim

nnoremap <silent> <Leader>a :AskVisualStudioCode<CR>

This plugin is the very definition of beta. I wrote it familiarise myself with nvim's remote plugin functionality. I personally find it useful and will continue to work on it.

On my list to do is...

• Improve the documentation, installation and setup process (for other operating systems, other vim package managers etc)
• Expand the code action functionality (ie. currently it does not implement spelling changes)
• General flurry of improvements

All ideas and support are welcome. If you find this interesting or useful, i'd love you to have a play - and let me know how it goes.