VS Code Setup
I’ve been using VS Code more and more and I’m loving it. It has the speed of Sublime but a lot of other features that feel really natural to me. To me, it feels like it fits between Sublime and PhpStorm. It has plugins that cover a lot of what I like in PhpStorm, but it’s light and fast.
As I’m adjusted to the editor I came across an excellent blog post by Caleb Porzio on his VS Code setup and it covers everything. Extensions, must-have settings, the Zen life, themes, and more.
I prefer to adjust my editors in stages and here is what I started with:
Then the following settings that I basically copied from Caleb:
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{
“editor.fontSize”: 10,
“editor.fontFamily”: “Operator Mono”,
“editor.lineHeight”: 20,
“workbench.colorTheme”: “One Dark Pro Italic”,
“editor.fontLigatures”: true,
“editor.minimap.enabled”: false,
“window.zoomLevel”: 0,
“workbench.activityBar.visible”: true,
“workbench.statusBar.visible”: false,
“sublimeTextKeymap.promptV3Features”: true,
“editor.multiCursorModifier”: “ctrlCmd”,
“editor.snippetSuggestions”: “top”,
“editor.formatOnPaste”: true,
“explorer.openEditors.visible”: 0,
“workbench.editor.enablePreview”: false,
“files.trimTrailingWhitespace”: true,
“files.trimFinalNewlines”: true,
“files.autoSave”: “onWindowChange”,
“workbench.sideBar.location”: “right”,
“terminal.integrated.fontSize”: 10,
“terminal.integrated.lineHeight”: 1.5,
“terminal.integrated.cursorBlinking”: false,
“terminal.integrated.cursorStyle”: “line”,
“editor.formatOnPaste”: true,
“search.useIgnoreFiles”: false,
}
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Finally, I used the same shortcuts as Caleb for the integrated Terminal:
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{
“key”: “alt+cmd+right”,
“command”: “workbench.action.terminal.focusNext”,
“when”: “terminalFocus”
},
{
“key”: “alt+cmd+left”,
“command”: “workbench.action.terminal.focusPrevious”,
“when”: “terminalFocus”
}
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A week or so in and I’m enjoying this. Check back next for when I probably switch to the next new shiny object. Be sure and check out Caleb’s post as it covers everything.