How to make vscode stop overriding closing parentheses on insertion

As of version 1.38, the answer is yes, you can turn it off completely, while still keeping the autoclosing brackets. That version introduced a new setting, editor.autoClosingOvertype, which can take three possible values: always – always overtype closing parens (the old, classic, Sublime-Text-inspired behavior) auto – “smart” overtype which tries to detect whether a closing … Read more

VSCode: use WSL Git instead of Git for Windows

Since VS Code 1.34 (April 2019) a remote extension has been introduced to develop into WSL: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/wsl. Basically, a server instance of VS Code is started into WSL, allowing you to use all the WSL tools (e.g. git) from your client instance on Windows. Thank you for pointing that out @Noornashriq Masnon!