Configs

VSCode

Installation

Following their instructions for Linux. Refer that page for your respective Linux distro

Fedora install

# Install key and "yum" repository
sudo rpm --import https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc
echo -e "[code]\nname=Visual Studio Code\nbaseurl=https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/vscode\nenabled=1\ngpgcheck=1\ngpgkey=https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc" | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/vscode.repo > /dev/null

# Update the package cache and install "code"
dnf check-update
sudo dnf install code # or code-insiders

Ubuntu install

wget -qO- https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > packages.microsoft.gpg
sudo install -D -o root -g root -m 644 packages.microsoft.gpg /etc/apt/keyrings/packages.microsoft.gpg
echo "deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/packages.microsoft.gpg] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main" |sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list > /dev/null
rm -f packages.microsoft.gpg
sudo apt install apt-transport-https
sudo apt update
sudo apt install code # or code-insiders

Themes, Settings, Extensions

VSCode User preferences are stored in ~/.config/Code/User/ folder. These include files like settings.json, keybindings.json as well as your language-specific snippets in the snippets/ folder. Extensions are stored in the ~/.vscode/extensions folder.

To view a list of your VSCode extensions: code --list-extensions

Preview a wide range of VSCode themes for your language at vscodethemes.com

You can refer my list of VSCode files within the vscode/ folder:

• Settings in settings.json file
• list of extensions in extensions.txt file
• Kayboard shortcuts in keybindings.json file

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“Open in VSCode” option

Assuming you’re on the GNOME desktop environment (the default on Ubuntu, Fedora etc), your file manager by default is Nautilus. So, you can add a script to run as an option in your context menu when you right-click a folder or file. The scripts are stored in ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/ folder

• Create the bash script file Open-in-VSCode.sh:

  nano ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/Open-in-VSCode.sh
  

• Paste below contents into the file, save it and exit. Referred from this post

  #!/usr/bin/env bash
  code ${NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS}
  

• Give it execution permission:

  chmod +x ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/Open-in-VSCode.sh
  

• Now you can see the Open-in-VSCode.sh option in the Scripts tab of the right-click menu