vscode

Visual Studio Code / Code - OSS / VSCodium Configuration

Install

• Settings:
  • If you want to use my settings.json file as-is:

    ln -s "${TIMZWIEBEL_LINUX}/config/vscode/settings.json" ~/.config/Code\ -\ OSS/User/settings.json

  • Alternatively, you can simply copy/paste parts of my settings.json file into your ~/.config/Code\ -\ OSS/User/settings.json file.
• Keybindings:
  • If you want to use my keybindings.json file as-is:

    ln -s "${TIMZWIEBEL_LINUX}/config/vscode/keybindings.json" ~/.config/Code\ -\ OSS/User/keybindings.json

• Snippets:
  • If you want to use one of my snippets files:

    ln -s "${TIMZWIEBEL_LINUX}/config/vscode/snippets/<snippet_file>" ~/.config/Code\ -\ OSS/User/snippets/<snippet_file>

  • If you want to use all of my snippets files:

    ln -s "${TIMZWIEBEL_LINUX}/config/vscode/snippets" ~/.config/Code\ -\ OSS/User/snippets

Links

• Releases:
  • Visual Studio Code: the proprietary Microsoft-branded release
  • Code - OSS: the official Microsoft-driven open-source release
  • VSCodium: a community-driven open-source release
• Extensions:
  • Visual Studio Marketplace: the official Microsoft-run marketplace (the terms only permit it to be used with the official Microsoft-branded release)
  • Open VSX Registry: a vendor-neutral open-source alternative to the Visual Studio Marketplace
• Snippets Documentation: how to make and use snippets in Visual Studio Code

Extensions

• General:
  • Code Spell Checker (Marketplace, Open VSX): a basic spell checker that works well with code and documents
  • Rewrap (Marketplace, Open VSX): press Alt+Q to rewrap plain text/comments to rulers or a specified wrapping column
  • Local History (Marketplace, Open VSX): maintains local history of files so that every time you modify a file, a copy of the old contents is kept in the local history, in case you change or delete a file by accident
  • Thunder Client (Marketplace, Open VSX): a lightweight Rest API Client for testing/debugging APIs
• Language-specific:
  • Python (Marketplace, Open VSX): IntelliSense (Pylance), linting, debugging, code navigation, code formatting, refactoring, variable explorer, test explorer, and more
    • isort (Marketplace, Open VSX): provides import sorting using isort
  • Svelte for VS Code (Marketplace, Open VSX): provides syntax highlighting and rich intellisense for Svelte components
  • Tailwind CSS IntelliSense (Marketplace, Open VSX): autocomplete, syntax highlighting, and linting for Tailwind CSS