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VSCode Essentials (Extension Pack)

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Introduction

VSCode Essentials is a collection of many individual extensions that includes all of the functionality needed to turn VSCode into a ⚡ supercharged ⚡ integrated development environment (IDE).

This extension pack is language-agnostic, and does not include functionality for specific programming languages or frameworks. Instead, this extension's objective is to remain relatively lean while delivering powerful features that all developers can benefit from.

Features

• Enhanced comment highlights, styling, and wrapping • Todo manager • Snippet manager and generator • Run code • Spell check • Real-time collaboration with edits, calls, chats, and comments • Formatting of multiple files • Advanced git tooling • Multiple clipboards (clipboard ring) • Code screenshots • Project manager • Detection of non-printing characters • Smart backspacing (delete indentation/whitespace) • Cursor navigation with the ability to go to any character with a few keystrokes • Macros for executing multiple commands with a single keyboard shortcut • Extended multi-cursor functionality (incrementing, inserting numeric sequences, etc.) • Hack VSCode's stylesheets for UI elements that aren't yet included in the settings or official theme API • Semantic indent and scope guides • Automatic and manually added (tagged commits) local edit history • Bookmarks for marking lines of code and quickly jumping back to them • Giving workspaces unique colors to help identify the editor when working with multiple instances, using Live Share, or taking advantage of remote development • Add syntax highlighting to log files and to VSCode's output/debug panels • Toggle the display of hidden files in the explorer • GitHub Gist management with interactive playgrounds, code snippets, and notes • Synchronize edits you make in a Search Editor back to source files.

Recommended Settings

All Autocomplete

CodeStream

Customize UI

GitLens

Macros

MetaGo

Project Manager

Rewrap

Settings Cycler

Todo Tree

Bug Reports

Bug reports should be filed at the repository belonging to the individual extension that is causing the issue (click on the extension's marketplace link below and then look for the repo link in the sidebar, under "Project Details").

Known Issues

Some extensions will prevent the Output Colorizer extension from adding syntax highlighting in the output/debug panels. This is a VSCode limitation waiting for a fix. The current workaround is to disable extensions (when not needed) that conflict with the Output Colorizer extension. Code Runner is one of the known, conflicting extensions (which itself is also included in this extension pack).

Included Extensions

| Extension | Link |

| All Autocomplete | | | Bookmarks | | | Checkpoints | | | Code Runner | | | Code Spell Checker | | | CodeStream | | | Control Snippets | | | Customize UI | | | DotENV | | | Easy Snippet | | | Explorer Exclude | | | Format All | | | GistPad | | | Git Graph | | | GitHub Pull Requests | | | Gitignore | | | GitLens | | | Gremlins | | | Hungry Delete | | | IntelliCode | | | Live Share | | | Live Share Audio | | | Live Share Chat | | | Live Share Whiteboard | | | Local History | | | Macros | | | MetaGo | | | Monkey Patch | | | Multiple Clipboards | | | Output Colorizer | | | PDF | | | Peacock | | | Polacode | | | Project Manager | | | Rewrap | | | Search Editor: Apply Changes | | | Settings Cycler | | | Text Pastry | | | Todo Tree | |

Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.