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  • VS Code Can Do That Workshop
  • Essential Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Exercise 1 - Customizing The Editor
    • Customizing The Editor
    • Switch themes
    • Install a new icon theme
    • Switch fonts
    • Editor tweaks
    • Change default Settings view
    • Easily identify editor instances
  • Exercise 2 - Productivity Tricks
    • Productivity Tricks
    • Essential navigation shortcuts
    • Creating HTML with Emmet
    • Styling with Emmet
    • Update image sizes
  • Exercise 3 - Navigation And Refactoring
    • Navigation And Refactoring
    • Moving, Duplicating and Deleting
    • Folding sections
    • Multiple cursors
    • Rename refactor
    • Finding things
    • Extract refactor
  • Exercise 4 - Debugging
    • Debugging
    • Simple debugging
    • Simple launch config
    • Auto attach
    • Debugging browser apps
    • Compound debug configurations
  • Exercise 5 - Docker
    • Docker
    • Dockerizing an application
    • Running and inspecting images
    • Docker compose
    • Debugging Docker containers
  • Exercise 6 - Remote Development
    • Remote Development
    • Create a remote container
    • Create a new function in the container
    • Handling extensions
  • Exercise 7 - Working With Data
    • Working with data
    • Working with MongoDB
    • Working with SQLite
    • Working with MySQL
  • Exercise 8 - Git and Source Control
    • Git and source control
    • Cloning repos with VS Code
    • Common Git workflows
    • Branching and merge conflicts
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  1. Exercise 1 - Customizing The Editor

Easily identify editor instances

PreviousChange default Settings viewNextProductivity Tricks

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There is a popular extension called "Peacock". It is useful for identifying editor instances when you have multiples of them open. This extension is included in the VS Code Can Do That extension pack.

  • Open the Command Palette (Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + P)

  • Select "Peacock: Enter a color"

  • Enter in any color

I find that it's most useful to set just the titlebar color with Peacock. This is enough to let me know at a quick glance which editor instance I'm looking at. For that reason, I disable the "Status Bar" and "Action Bar" theming in Peacock.

  • Open Settings (Cmd/Ctrl + ,)

  • Add in the following two lines...

    • "peacock.affectActivityBar": false

    • "peacock.affectStatusBar": false