Aside from a number of settings that I’ve changed. I use the following extensions.

Some settings changes:

• Turn off Auto Closing Brackets, Auto Closing Quotes, Folding, Minimap
• Add 80 column ruler
• Convert tabs to space
• Tab stop 2
• Turn off tab preview
• Font ‘Roboto Mono’ 18 pt
• Turn off HotExit
• Turn on “Insert Final Newline”
• Turn on “Trim Trailing Whitespace”
• Turn off “Enable Preview”
• Zen mode: turn off “Center Layout”
• Restore Windows: “none”
• Terminal font: ’Anonymous Pro for Powerline” 16pt
• Integrated shell: fish

Theme:

• Verdandi

Language:

• Pony Language Colorizer

File type support:

• Autohotkey
• Docker

Other:

• Code Spell Checker
• Live Share (all of them)
• Remote * extensions (all of them- WSL, SSH, Containers)

Nothing by deliberate choice, but I install the syntax highlighting plugins when prompted.

That said, it’s obviously not my main editor/IDE - it’s my trusty fallback IDE for all my non-main languages at the time (since a few years). It’s good enough to just use it, and I say that as someone with quite a vimrc.

Language-agnostic, I’ve got:

• Code Spell Checker, which does what it sounds like;
• Firefox Theme, which means that VS Code and Firefox’s dev tools look more-or-less identical. This has had positives and negatives, but I’ve mostly really appreciated it; and
• GitLens, which is amazing at providing things like “what is the history of this function?” in a method so transparent I get addicted to it and almost am tempted away from Mercurial for personal projects.

And language-specific, I’ve got:

• Go, which is an IDE-quality plugin;
• Python, which is, again, an IDE-quality plugin;
• ESLint, which is, again, an IDE-quality plugin;
• Beautify, which makes a one-click stop for cleaning up my JavaScript and TypeScript; and
• Bazel, which is at best okay, but the main thing I work on is a Bazel project, so…yeah.

Can anybody tell me how to disable the “preview tab” state, where you click on something once in the explorer (or more importantly open it with cmd-p), and it opens but in a “preview” tab that will be replaced? Or better yet, I’d like to promote “preview” tabs (I’m probably using the wrong term here) into real tabs once you’ve had it open and/or focused for a few minutes?

The vim mode in VSCode with the neovim backend is actually surprisingly good, the least awkward vi emulation I’ve found yet.

I’m now a fan of Ayu Adapta theme, combined with City Light Gray icons, yes, Vim mode.

To give a bit of context as to where VS Code fits into my development workflow: I use Xcode for iOS development as using anything else feels masochistic, when I need to make quick edits to config files or scripts I use vi, and for basically everything else I use VS Code.

For my main use case of JavaScript, Ruby, and occasional Rust development, I have the following setup:

• Dracula Colour Theme - which I sometimes find a little garish, but provides good contrast and also supports every piece of software under the sun
• Material Icon Theme - which I’ve found makes it easier for me to quickly recognise file types compared to the built in icon theme
• Prettier - a very nice formatter for TS / JS / CSS / HTML and many other languages
• ESLint - my linter of choice for both vanilla JS and TypeScript projects
• Ruby - for integration with linters, slightly better syntax highlighting, and a few other small niceties
• Ruby Solargraph - very basic IDE integration for Ruby projects. It doesn’t work amazingly well, but static analysis of Ruby programs seems like a tough problem to solve.
• Rust (pls) - for powerful IDE style features when working on Rust projects, configure language-specific indentation preferences, and so on.

I’ve also made a few settings tweaks to hide the useless “Open Editors” sidebar section,

You can find my VSCode Setup here and here is my settings-file.

I use vscode a lot, mostly for typescript/css/html, but sometimes for C# too (though I still mostly use real VS for that).

Theme: Dark+

Config changes:

"workbench.editor.enablePreview": false,
"editor.minimap.enabled": false,
"files.trimTrailingWhitespace": true,
"tslint.alwaysShowRuleFailuresAsWarnings": true,
"editor.codeActionsOnSave": {
    "source.fixAll.tslint": true
},
"html.autoClosingTags": false,
"zenMode.hideTabs": false,
"search.location": "panel",
"search.smartCase": true,
"workbench.panel.defaultLocation": "right",
"files.autoSave": "off",
"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\windows\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe",

Plugins:

• vim
• visual studio keybindings
• tslint
• gitlens
• angular language services
• c#
• c# extensons

Not sure where mine fits in the scheme of typical VS Code customisation but it works well for me.

Typical Rust + JS setup I’d guess ?

• Ansible
• Better Jinja
• crates
• IntelliJ IDEA Keybindings
• Rust (rls)
• SQLTools
• TOML Language Support

I found this thread pretty useful with encouraging me to finally see if I could disable a lot of my bugbears with Code, in particular preview.

A useful setting if you’re on a retina / high-DPI screen:

"workbench.fontAliasing": "auto"

or indeed:

"workbench.fontAliasing": "antialiased"

“Broken” would be the one word to describe my setup. I keep getting “extension host terminated unexpectedly” :|

I have all my vscode config in source control:

Settings, keybindings, snippets:
https://github.com/kbd/setup/tree/master/HOME/Library/Application%20Support/Code/User

Extensions:
https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/master/conf/vscode.txt

I use the “Spacegray Eighties Dark” theme with some color customizations (comments should be highly visible; bright green, not dull gray!) and Fantasque Sans Mono for my font (highly recommended).

Notable extensions include GitLens, Peacock, Rewrap, Dash (to integrate with https://kapeli.com/dash, which is awesome), Bracket Pair Colorizer 2, and Bookmarks, plus a bunch of language-specific extensions, like Python, Go, Prettier, etc.

I use Chromodynamics theme together with VSCode Great Icons. And from functional side besides various language extensions, I often use(in order of usage/usefulness): Code Spell Checker, GitLens, Ungit, Todo Tree and hexdump

Keybindings mostly vanilla, besides a few which were used by my desktop environment.

I don’t use many extensions, mostly because everything I want is already built-in! The three extensions I have installed:

1. One Dark Pro - by far my favorite syntax theme. I use it everywhere.
2. Prettier - I do a lot of JavaScript development, so having Prettier an “Format on Save” enabled is a delight.
3. vscode-icons - I find that the icons in this extension are super helpful when distinguishing between different folders.

Solarized Light/Railgun, VsCodeVim (without the neovim stuff), language support for JS/C#/OCaml. I don’t like VsCodeVim a lot, but the only other vim emulation extension that’s in a decent enough state is amVim and that also has its fair share of annoyances and bugs. I started writing one myself in OCaml with BuckleScript… but you know how these things go.