Is there a way to make the terminal in VSCode take up the entire width of the application even if the sidebar is open?

This is in Stable v1.64 now. Go to View/Appearance/Align Panel/Justify or use the Layout Control icon on the upper right mentioned below. Other options for the Panel alignment are center/left/right. Note that that the Layout icon on the upper right was recently added with this setting: Workbench > Layout Control: Enabled Also, as of v1.75 … Read more

How to change indent guide line color between brackets in VSCODE?

VSCode v.1.23 (released May, 2018) added the ability to colorize the active and other inactive indent guides: “workbench.colorCustomizations”: { “editorIndentGuide.activeBackground”: “#ff0000”, “editorIndentGuide.background”: “#ff00ff” } See release notes indent guides If you only want the active guides to be visible, set the background of the inactives to transparent ala: “workbench.colorCustomizations”: { “editorIndentGuide.background”: “#fff0” }

How to make vscode not wait for finishing a preLaunchTask?

This worked for me. Note all these are required, even though none are important: problemMatcher.pattern.regexp problemMatcher.pattern.file problemMatcher.pattern.location problemMatcher.pattern.message problemMatcher.background.activeOnStart problemMatcher.background.beginsPattern problemMatcher.background.endsPattern { // See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=733558 // for the documentation about the tasks.json format “version”: “2.0.0”, “tasks”: [ { “label”: “build-extras”, “type”: “shell”, “isBackground”: true, “command”: “./script/build-extras”, // This task is run before some debug tasks. … Read more