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mrcrowl / vscode-easy-less

Easy LESS extension for Visual Studio Code
MIT License
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Doesn't work on linux/ubuntu #21

Closed mrcrowl closed 5 years ago

mrcrowl commented 7 years ago

There have been two reports of easy-less extension not working on linux:

@kobyo - 2017-05-02 [Ubuntu 16.10] @Eric Dubé - 2016-11-14 [unknown version/flavor]

mrcrowl commented 7 years ago

Here's a quick screen capture of my experience of using easy-less in vscode on ubuntu 16.10.

I made a simple .less file, hit Ctrl+S and the .css file is created: easy-less

zaszlo commented 6 years ago

I'm having Ubuntu 16.10 and found this issue by searching for why this extension is not working. I mean I have a less file, save it nothing happens, no file is generated. Tried to delete the old css, tried to start just a plain new less and save that... extension doesn't seem to be triggered, no message is shown as hinted in the extension description and eventually nothing happens when I save my .less file.

zaszlo commented 6 years ago

I'm not sure if it is an Ubuntu issue, I got it under windows now as well. For me I guess the problem stands in the fact that my less file is pretty big, it takes more than a minute to compile it and it is very frustrating that there is no process monitor / status bar message showing that the compilation is taking place, only after it is finished there is a message that it has been compiled in x sec... shown for like 2 sec after waiting for it for a minute or so.

For the process to be easier to follow I usually delete the old css and map files so that when it finishes I can see that the new files got there. Automating this deletion or renaming the old ones to .old to follow the compilation process would be a nice feature I think. This way I can refresh the browser only when I know that the new css is compiled.