You can have a different theme per workspace/folder by adjusting the workbench.colorTheme in the workspace settings. Open a new VSCode window. Open the project folder where you would like to have a different color theme. Navigate to File > Preferences > Settings. Select the “Workspace Settings” tab at the top of the settings screen. Anything … Read more
The command to close the currently opened folder can be found from File -> Close Folder. You can also use the shortcut: Ctrl+K F (press and hold Ctrl, then press and release K, then release Ctrl, and then press F) And on a Mac: ⌘+k f
Toggle Sidebar Visibility: Ctrl+B (Windows/Linux) If you’re a MacOS user, then it’s ⌘ + b. Visual Studio Code Key Bindings
Update 2022 Solution A: Press Ctrl+Shift+P Then type Format Document With… At the end of the list click on Configure Default Formatter… Now you can choose your favorite beautifier from the list. Solution B: go to file -> preferences -> settings search for format, on the left side, click on Text Editor, the very first … Read more
The command Selection / Add Cursors to Line Ends altshifti will put a cursor on every line in the current selection. (For mac use optshifti) Tip: You can pull up the keyboard shortcut reference sheet with ctrlk,ctrls (as in, those two keyboard combos in sequence). (For mac use cmdk,cmds)
UPDATE 2017-12-13 You can now download the extension directly from the marketplace. As of Visual Studio Code 1.7.1 dragging or opening the extension does not work any more. In order to install it manually you need to: open the extensions sidebar click on the ellipsis in the right upper corner choose Install from VSIX Old … Read more
In the most recent version of Visual Studio Code I’ve found out that the “editor.acceptSuggestionOnCommitCharacter”: false configuration disables this behavior.
This behaviour is controlled by the following setting: “explorer.autoReveal”: false There is currently no setting for keeping the selected file in the explorer, but this one at least keeps the scroll position fixed and prevents the “jumping”. Update In current versions, the same setting now keeps the selected file.
So here’s how to do that: In the bottom bar of VSCode, you’ll see the label UTF-8. Click it. A popup opens. Click Save with encoding. You can now pick a new encoding for that file. Alternatively, you can change the setting globally in Workspace/User settings using the setting “files.encoding”: “utf8”. If using the graphical … Read more
You can go to menu File and choose Auto Save.