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I forked Text Marker (VS Code) to remove telemetry, add async matching, and pers

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I got fed up with locked-down autocomplete, so I forked Continue and stripped it down to just tab-completion. Any model, no subscription and no remote telemetry

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I kept running into the same wall.</p> <p>Every agentic coding plugin ships an autocomplete, and almost all of them lock it down — no model

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