I used to love vim a lot but now a days I switched to VSCode because of the delicate balance between the UX and plugins.
The following is my settings.json file. You can probably use the same too.
Please do add your configuration too
Disabled Minimap - since we are writing modular code there is no need for this.
"editor.minimap.enabled": false
Autosave Enabled - AutoSave enabled so that there is no need for cmd+s always
"files.autoSave": "afterDelay",
"files.autoSaveDelay": 5000,
Exclusion - These are the large files and folders which will make VSCode cry . Please do add the same to your configuration also.
"files.watcherExclude": {
"**/.git/objects/**": true,
"**/.git/subtree-cache/**": true,
"**/node_modules/**": true,
"**/tmp/**": true,
"**/.git": true,
"**/.svn": true,
"**/.hg": true,
"**/CVS": true,
"**/.DS_Store": true,
"**/node_modules": true,
"**/bower_components": true,
"**/dist/**": true,
"**/log/**": true,
"**/logs/**": true,
"**/.fdk/**": true
},
"files.exclude": {
"**/.git/objects/**": true,
"**/.git/subtree-cache/**": true,
"**/node_modules/**": true,
"**/tmp/**": true,
"**/.git": true,
"**/.svn": true,
"**/.hg": true,
"**/CVS": true,
"**/.DS_Store": true,
"**/node_modules": true,
"**/bower_components": true,
"**/dist/**": true,
"**/log/**": true,
"**/.fdk/**": true
},
"search.exclude": {
"**/.git/objects/**": true,
"**/.git/subtree-cache/**": true,
"**/node_modules/**": true,
"**/tmp/**": true,
"**/.git": true,
"**/.svn": true,
"**/.hg": true,
"**/CVS": true,
"**/.DS_Store": true,
"**/node_modules": true,
"**/bower_components": true,
"**/dist/**": true,
"**/log/**": true
},
Tab Size - We can still be friends with 2 spaces for tab.Change this based on your source code.
"editor.tabSize": 2,
Final Json for VSCode
{
"ruby.intellisense": "rubyLocate",
"gitlens.advanced.messages": {
"suppressShowKeyBindingsNotice": true
},
"workbench.statusBar.feedback.visible": false,
"search.location": "sidebar",
"window.zoomLevel": 0,
"workbench.iconTheme": "vscode-icons",
"files.watcherExclude": {
"**/.git/objects/**": true,
"**/.git/subtree-cache/**": true,
"**/node_modules/**": true,
"**/tmp/**": true,
"**/.git": true,
"**/.svn": true,
"**/.hg": true,
"**/CVS": true,
"**/.DS_Store": true,
"**/node_modules": true,
"**/bower_components": true,
"**/dist/**": true,
"**/log/**": true,
"**/logs/**": true,
"**/.fdk/**": true
},
"files.exclude": {
"**/.git/objects/**": true,
"**/.git/subtree-cache/**": true,
"**/node_modules/**": true,
"**/tmp/**": true,
"**/.git": true,
"**/.svn": true,
"**/.hg": true,
"**/CVS": true,
"**/.DS_Store": true,
"**/node_modules": true,
"**/bower_components": true,
"**/dist/**": true,
"**/log/**": true,
"**/.fdk/**": true
},
"search.exclude": {
"**/.git/objects/**": true,
"**/.git/subtree-cache/**": true,
"**/node_modules/**": true,
"**/tmp/**": true,
"**/.git": true,
"**/.svn": true,
"**/.hg": true,
"**/CVS": true,
"**/.DS_Store": true,
"**/node_modules": true,
"**/bower_components": true,
"**/dist/**": true,
"**/log/**": true
},
"editor.fontSize": 16,
"editor.tabSize": 2,
"emmet.includeLanguages": {
"html": "html",
"javascript": "javascriptreact"
},
"files.autoSave": "afterDelay",
"files.autoSaveDelay": 5000,
"terminal.external.osxExec": "iTerm.app",
"terminal.integrated.shell.osx": "zsh",
"editor.wordWrap": "on",
"editor.formatOnSave": true,
"editor.formatOnPaste": true,
"editor.minimap.enabled": false,
"editor.fontLigatures": true,
"workbench.editor.highlightModifiedTabs": true,
"explorer.sortOrder": "modified",
"files.trimFinalNewlines": true
}
Top comments (6)
I'm not sure I follow you on this. How is VSCode more "minimal" than Vim?
We are? We're lucky :P
I don't think I'd want autosave enabled in my VSCode because VSCode doesn't seem to be very good at having a persistent undo like Vim. I'd worry that I'd lose work.
I wanted to put this way
VSCode is having delicate balance between UX, Plugins and customisation.
Corrected :)
You are missing "Highly opinionated" in
Ulitmate VSCode Configurationtitle :) Also, you have a typo in it.Corrected :) Thanks
Nice. I wouldn't use all of them probably, but it's good to know they're there.
Too simple.