Month: September 2021

For me, I have a hard time distinguishing between the folders, sub-folders, and files in the file explorer of VSCode because the indent is not very pronounced.

In order to increase the indent go to File -> Preferences -> Settings. Search for “indent” and then click on Workbench in the left-hand side navigation pane of the settings window and scroll down to Workbench > Tree: Indent and then enter the number of pixels for the tree indentation. I doubled it, going from 8 to 16 and that made it much easier to see.

As I’m still learning vscode, I’m keeping track of a cheat sheet for shortcuts and other functionality for the IDE.

The following is under Linux, specifically Debian 10 with XFCE.

Keyboard Shortcuts

• Edit a string in the entire file that matches exactly the string that you have highlighted. For example: you might have a comment, or a variable name, in a file that you want to find and change globally. Highlight the string and then type CTRL+Shift+L then type the replacement string and it will replace it everywhere in the file.
• Show All Opened Editors in Quick Open (edt command): CTRL+P
• List all functions and symbols in a file: CTRL+P and then type @