VS Code Can Do That - Workshop
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  • Introduction
  • Essential Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Exercise 1 - Customizing The Editor
    • Before you start
    • Switch themes
    • Install a new icon theme
    • Switch fonts
    • Editor tweaks
    • Change default Settings view
    • Easily identify editor instances
  • Exercise 2 - Productivity Tricks
    • Before you start
    • Essential navigation shortcuts
    • Creating HTML with Emmet
    • Styling with Emmet
    • Update image sizes
  • Exercise 3 - Navigation And Refactoring
    • Before you start
    • Moving, Duplicating and Deleting
    • Folding sections
    • Multiple cursors
    • Rename refactor
    • Finding things
    • Extract refactor
  • Exercise 4 - Debugging
    • Before you start
    • Simple debugging
    • Simple launch config
    • Auto attach
    • Debugging browser apps
    • Compound debug configurations
  • Exercise 5 - Docker
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  1. Exercise 1 - Customizing The Editor

Change default Settings view

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The default Settings view is a UI that sits on top of a JSON file. While the UI is helpful for finding things, it makes it hard to see all your settings at once. For this reason, I set the default Settings view to JSON.

The JSON view shows you every setting you have customized. To make this the default Settings view...

  • Open Settings (Cmd/Ctrl + ,)

  • Search for "default settings"

  • Change the "Workbench > Settings: Editor" to "json"

If you find that you like the search functionality of the Settings UI (as I sometimes do), you can map a keyboard shortcut that will open that view. I map mine to Cmd/Ctrl + Opt/Alt + ,. It's very similar to the default Settings shortcut (Cmd/Ctrl + ,), but with the Option/Alt modifier key thrown in.

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

  • Select "Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts"

  • Search for "open settings"

  • Select "Preferences: Open Settings (UI)

  • Press the Cmd/Ctrl + Opt/Alt .+ , all together