How do I disable VS Code of updating itself?

Have you tried updating JSON User settings to “update.mode”: “none” Navigation steps: File > Preferences > Settings or [ Ctrl + Shift + , ] References: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/FAQ Following block of text is from the FAQ VS Code How do I opt out of VS Code auto-updates? By default, VS Code is set up to auto-update … Read more

Change background colour for Visual Studio Code

And the correct answer is (Visual Studio 2010): From the menus: Tools -> Options –> Environment -> Fonts and Colors: Select “Plain Text”. On the right of that, under “Item backgroud:” hit the dropdown list. As you will see, the “default” list of colours in here are way too strong for a background, so you’ll … Read more

VSCode column selection with keyboard

By default, this is Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Arrow. If you would like to rebind it to align with Visual Studio, put this in your keybindings.json: { “key”: “shift+alt+down”, “command”: “cursorColumnSelectDown”, “when”: “editorTextFocus” }, { “key”: “shift+alt+left”, “command”: “cursorColumnSelectLeft”, “when”: “editorTextFocus” }, { “key”: “shift+alt+pagedown”, “command”: “cursorColumnSelectPageDown”, “when”: “editorTextFocus” }, { “key”: “shift+alt+pageup”, … Read more

is there an autosave function/plugin for notepad++?

You can find a Notepad++ plugin called AutoSave for autosaving your files here: https://github.com/francostellari/NppPlugins/tree/main/AutoSave (Used to link to https://sites.google.com/site/fstellari/nppplugins but that’s no longer online, cached version is still available here) It autosaves every minute, but it’s configurable, and allows you to choose to save only the current document or all open documents.