Save your eyes from cluttered editor. Make Visual Studio Code more pleasing to look at. This is similar to my "Make Sublime Text 3 Pretty" setup.
The original looks okay. But, it looks cluttered. To make it prettier, copy and save this settings to your settings.json:
{
"breadcrumbs.enabled": false,
"editor.fontFamily": "Fira Code",
"editor.fontLigatures": true,
"editor.fontSize": 14,
"editor.lineHeight": 1.75,
"editor.lineNumbers": "off",
"editor.minimap.showSlider": "always",
"editor.padding.bottom": 10,
"editor.padding.top": 10,
"editor.wordWrap": "on",
"explorer.autoReveal": false,
"explorer.openEditors.visible": 0,
"workbench.activityBar.visible": false,
"workbench.colorTheme": "Material Theme Palenight",
"workbench.statusBar.visible": false
}
Also, you need to install Material Theme in Visual Studio Code and Fira Code in your Operating System.
Top comments (9)
The breadcrumbs discourages you from keeping your code structures as simple or flat as possible. If my code is simple, I shouldn't be needing the breadcrumbs. Also, in complex projects, still, I've never actually looked at the breadcrumbs.
I disagree, when you work ina large codebase with lots of modules, you have a lot of index.ts files, breadcrumbs definitely help with that.
But to each their own.
I've had complex projects that had many
index.tsfiles. It was a mess. I didn't use the breadcrumbs. I prefer keyboard shortcuts to go to files. It's faster for me than hovering and clicking through deep trees of code structures. That's just me, maybe because I love Vim.Nice. But I'm keeping my line numbers 🙂
I have found that I rarely look at line numbers when writing code. Except when I have to take a screenshot/video of my editor to show some code to others. But if its just me, I can still see the current line number via
CMD/Ctrl + Pthen type":"and go to any line withCmd/Ctrl + Pthen type:<LINE NUMBER>.But that's up to you. Some people also hides the minimap, but I like it. Cheers!
I don't even know you, I can't be thinking that. I love Vim. I never said I'm good at it.
Thanks, this is a nice example for how you can set up Visual Studio Code!
Just remove the minimap, and keep the line numbers. then it is ok. How can you debug code without line numbers?
I can always hit
Command/Ctrl + Pthen type : to go to a specific line that an error indicates. Typing is faster than the cursor and scrolling, especially on codes with lots of line numbers.