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August 1, 2024

My VS Code Setup

My VS Code settings, extensions, and themes.

Themes

I’ve tried a lot of color themes, but I now just use the default Dark Modern theme. Themes I have used before and liked are:

Icon Themes

Material Icon Theme. It’s great.

UI

I keep my sidebar on the right side, because opening and closing it does not shift the code.

I changed “Explorer: Sort Order” in VS Code settings to “filesFirst”, which makes it clearer which files belong to which folder in the sidebar. I got this from this r/sveltejs post.

Terminal Prompt

To hide my name and unnecessary directories from the terminal prompt, I use this PowerShell profile:

function prompt {
  $currentPath = $PWD.Path
  $homePath = [Environment]::GetFolderPath('UserProfile')
  $shortPath = $currentPath -replace [regex]::Escape($homePath), '~'
  "$shortPath > "
}

Extensions

Besides official language and library extensions, I use these: