When you [single-]click a file in the left sidebar’s file browser or open it from the quick open menu (Ctrl–P, type the file name, Enter), Visual Studio Code opens it in what’s called “Preview Mode”, which allows you to quickly view files. Preview Mode tabs are not kept open. As soon as you go to … Read more
Update Please note that JoelAZ’s answer is much easier and results in the same setting changes! The answer below is still valid, just more steps & more fuss. Old answer In Visual Studio Code, you can add persistent file associations for language highlighting to your settings.json file like this: // Place your settings in this … Read more
By default, Visual Studio Code will try to guess your indentation options depending on the file you open. You can turn off indentation guessing via “editor.detectIndentation”: false. You can customize this easily via these three settings for Windows in menu File → Preferences → User Settings and for Mac in menu Code → Preferences → … Read more
Those are Inlay Hints. You can enable (the default) or disable them with the setting: Editor > Inlay Hints: Enabled or change the Font Family or Font Size by searching for Inlay Hints in the Settings UI. And there is finer control for parameter names/types, variable types and more for js/ts files. For a lot … Read more
Since v1.0 you can toggle word wrap: with the new command editor.action.toggleWordWrap, or from the View menu (*View** → Toggle Word Wrap), or using the ALT+Z keyboard shortcut (for Mac: ⌥+Z). It can also be controlled with the following settings: editor.wordWrap editor.wordWrapColumn editor.wrappingIndent Known issues: renderLineHighlight should highlight the entire logical line If you’d like … Read more
You can configure patterns to hide files and folders from the explorer and searches. Open VS User Settings (Main menu: File > Preferences > Settings). This will open the setting screen. Search for files:exclude in the search at the top. Configure the User Setting with new glob patterns as needed. In this case add this … Read more
Install Git from https://git-scm.com/download/win Open Visual Studio Code and press and hold Ctrl + ` to open the terminal. Open the command palette using Ctrl + Shift + P. Type – Select Default Profile Select Git Bash from the options Click on the + icon in the terminal window The new terminal now will be … Read more
You can get your menu back by pressing/holding alt, you can then toggle the menu back on via the View menu. As for your settings, you can open your user settings through the command palette: Press F1 Type user settings Press enter Click the “sheet” icon to open the settings.json file: From there you can … Read more
Terminal “tabs” appear to be coming to v1.56. See Terminal Tabs release notes. They are vertical tabs – always visible, if you want, in a resizable view to the left or right. Not like traditional tabs across the top like a browser though. Tabs in the terminal [are] available as a preview feature and can … Read more
editor.hover.enabled: false in settings.json to Tooltip Click on Edit in settings.json There are two panes Default User Settings “editor.quickSuggestions”: { “other”: false, “comments”: false, “strings”: false } User Settings “editor.parameterHints.enabled”: false, “editor.suggest.snippetsPreventQuickSuggestions”: false, “html.suggest.html5”: false, “editor.snippetSuggestions”: “none”, This also can be done UI. Setting Snippet Suggestions : false Update August 2018 (version 1.27) Goto File=>Preference=>Settings … Read more