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Enable the meta key for the integrated terminal on macos

"terminal.integrated.macOptionIsMeta": true

In later version of vscode searching for terminal.integrated in setting takes you to the setting

hide some extensions form the file view (apex meta xml files)

"files.exclude" : {
        "**/*.cls-meta.xml" :true
 }

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