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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

Switch fonts

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Switching up fonts can bring some life and energy back into your editor. You aren't locked into the default font.

Here are some fonts that I recommend, both paid and free.

Free

Paid

After installing the font, enable it User Settings.

  • Press Cmd/Ctrl + , to open the Settings Editor

  • Search for "Font"

  • Specify the name of the new font

Font Ligatures

Some fonts support "font ligatures". These are symbols that represent compound symbols that we use in programming. If the font you are using supports them, you can turn them on by ticking the "Editor: Font Ligatures" box.

To see the ligatures in action, create a new file called index.js. Input the following symbols to see how font ligatures represent these common programming compound symbols as one character.

==
===
>=
<=
=>
!=
!==

FiraCode
Dank Mono
Hasklig
Operator Mono
Monoid
Pragmata Pro