Issue #137 (Opening External Links)12/04/24
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There are a couple of things you can note about clicking links in editable documents in VS Code. First of all, by default, any proper URL, which you might find, for example, in a Markdown file, will appear with an underline, indicating that it's able to be visited. In order to click it, however, you'll have to do one of two things.
Hold CTRL/CMD and hover your mouse over the link, something that works in many editing programs on both Windows and Mac.
Holding CTRL/CMD makes it clickable when you hover, but you can also simply hover without using CTRL/CMD and you'll still see the little popup with blue text that says "Follow link".
In this case, however, it's not a direct visit to the link. You'll notice a popup that warns you about the link (see below the warning on Mac). I suppose this is because the click isn't as intentional as one that uses CTRL/CMD.
It does provide an easy way to "copy" the link, should you need to do that. So I suppose it has that benefit.
And one final thing I'll mention: By default, links are opened in your system's default browser. But if you want to open them in a specific browser, you can do so by configuring the Workbench: External Browser setting.
As the setting documentation explains, you can use a keyword for one of three browsers, or enter an absolute path to the browser's executable for browsers not supported by the keyword format.
Now on to this week's hand-picked links!
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VS Code Tools
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NPM Studio — A VS Code extension to manage your npm packages directly from the editor. Quickly find, install, update, or remove packages without touching the command line.
redundanty — A VS Code extension designed to streamline your HTML development by removing redundant Bootstrap and/or Tailwind classes, with support for HTML and ERB (Ruby) files.
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GitGuardian — A VS Code extension that provides a safety net to help developers safeguard their sensitive information (passwords, API key, tokens, etc.) from accidental leaks in their code.
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VS Code Theme of the Week
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Soft Colors — A VS Code theme that promises to be 'soft' on the eyes, which does this by preserving "a low contrast balance with the least loss of code perception".
It does seem to accomplish what it claims but if you prefer a higher contrast theme, this might not be for you. It also includes a variation with no italics.
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Best of the Rest
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Rustpad — An open source collaborative text editor "based on the operational transformation algorithm". Not just for Rust, as the name implies, but you can collaborate in real time for dozens of programming languages.
snacks.nvim — A collection of 15+ small plugins for Neovim to improve the user experience, installable using the lazy.nvim plugin manager.
The Morning Paper for Tech — Want a byte-sized version of Hacker News that takes just a few minutes to read? Try TLDR's free daily newsletter. It covers the most interesting tech, startup, and programming stories in just 5 minutes. No sports and no politics. Sponsor 
Celebrating 21 Years of Notepad++: The Legendary Journey of our Favorite Text Editor — A brief homage to Notepad++, an editor that many of you may have started out using in the mid-2000s.
If you have any link suggestions, including a tool, article, or other resource related to VS Code or another IDE, you can hit reply, send it via DM on X, or via chat on Bluesky.
That's it for this issue.
Happy VS Coding!
Louis
VSCode.Email
@LouisLazaris
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