Issue #159 (VS Code Extension Drama)05/07/25
In this week's "Articles & Videos" section, I share a quick tip from the VS Code YouTube channel on a feature in the terminal that's currently in "Preview" mode. This particular one is a settings called terminal.integrated.suggest which you can enable or disable.
You can see the setting's "preview" status indicated with a tag next to the setting. You can look for this tag throughout VS Code's settings. This indicates that a settings is experimental and may change or be removed in future updates, so if you do choose to use one of these features, do so with caution.
That being said, as you probably guessed, there's an easy way to view all settings that are in preview mode. In your settings, use the @tag:preview filter in the search box, and this will display all such settings.
My current installation shows 23 of these settings. Note that using @tag:preview is a little different from just using @preview, the latter of which is more of a general search whereas using "tag" filters all the settings that have been specifically tagged as "preview" by the VS Code team.
And if you really want to get cutting-edge, you can use the a similar filter to view all settings tagged as experimental: @tag:experimental.
I can see 46 of such settings. I would assume these are settings that could later be upgraded to "preview", assuming they aren't removed altogether.
Now on to this week's hand-picked links!
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VS Code Tools
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VS Snippets — A powerful and user-friendly code snippet manager for VS Code that lets you save and organize your frequently used code snippets with support for 40+ programming languages including JavaScript, Python, Java, C++, Rust, TypeScript, Go, and more.
RepoText — A VS Code extension that allows you to export your entire codebase or specific files into a single LLM-friendly text, directly from your IDE, no external tools needed.
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Mermaid Chart — Official Mermaid Editor plugin by the Mermaid open source team, now with AI-powered diagramming, allowing you to create, edit and preview diagrams seamlessly within VS Code. See articles section below for a tutorial.
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VS Code Theme of the Week
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V Theme — Described as a "professionally crafted theme with both dark and light variants based on color theory principles." The point about color theory is encouraging since many themes are put together more based on general appearance to one developer.
The dark theme, shown above, uses deep blue-gray tones while the light theme is "clean and crisp" with complementary colors. As the author explains, the colors for both themes have been selected to be visually pleasing, harmonious, and to encourage a more productive coding environment.
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VS Code Articles & Videos
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Best of the Rest
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Lilly — An editor designed as a batteries-included experience, eliminating the need for plugins, with an end vision as a one-to-one replacement/equivalent functionality for all Vim features, macros, motions, and more.
gore — Yet another Go REPL that works nicely and includes line editing, code completion, and more.
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code2prompt — A code ingestion tool that streamline the process of creating LLM prompts for code analysis, generation, and other tasks.
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
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@LouisLazaris
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