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I would very much appreciate if you would publish the VS Code extension to the Open VSX marketplace, so that it can be used in non-Microsoft forks of VS Code. I recently switched from VS Code to Cursor at the behest of my boss, and I was quite saddened to discover that this essential extension was not available to be installed. I believe that I can probably compile it into a .vsix myself in order to make it installable in Cursor, but I'm sure that more users than just myself would greatly appreciate it being published to the Open VSX marketplace for easy installation.
Below is the template that Open VSX suggests for GitHub issues like these. I just wanted to add my personal touch at the start.
Thanks for the great extension!
Context
Unfortunately, as Microsoft prohibits usages of the Microsoft marketplace by any other products or redistribution of .vsix files from it, in order to use VS Code extensions in non-Microsoft products, we kindly ask that you take ownership of your VS Code extension namespace in Open VSX and publish this extension on Open VSX.
What is Open VSX? Why does it exist?
Open VSX is a vendor neutral alternative to the MS marketplace used by most other derivatives of VS Code like VSCodium, Gitpod, OpenVSCode, Theia-based IDEs, and so on.
You can read on about Open VSX at the Eclipse Foundation's Open VSX FAQ.
How can you publish to Open VSX?
The docs to publish an extension can be found here. This process is straightforward and shouldn't take too long. Essentially, you need an authentication token and to execute the ovsx publish command to publish your extension. There's also a doc explaining the whole process with an example GitHub Action workflow.