Editor, Editor on the WallĪs mentioned on Windows only I've used Notepad for popping up an editor, because it's guaranteed to be available for displaying or editing text content. In short, sometimes it's very useful to pop up an external editor and just edit text in raw form. The app automatically applies changes when you save the file reflecting the text changes back to the UI Session list. Some devs also prefer to simply work with text than going through UI. While editing in the session list in the app is more visually pleasant and interactive, if you need to do bulk updates to individual URLs or request data (say change a domain name or part of a URL) it's much easier to do in a text editor using Find and Replace than going through each individual entry in the application. In West Wind WebSurge which is an HTTP Request and Load Testing tool used mainly by developers, I allow for users to edit the raw session file that contains HTTP requests in plain text format, in addition to the app native session list.
(I'll also cover Mac and x-platform later on) To set the stage, my first usage scenario of launching VS Code from an application is Windows specific, where I need to edit a text file externally as part of a larger application. In the past I've used Notepad.exe for this, because it's guaranteed to be present on a Windows machine. If you have an application that lets you edit or review code or text externally a common thing to do is shell out and launch an editor. Visual Studio Code has pretty much become the de facto developer editor for most developers, so it's typically what developers want to see when reviewing any sort of code or text based content like code or logs.
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