Issue #184 (Sort Order in Explorer View)10/29/25
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In most cases in VS Code, you're probably fine with the order that folders and files are displayed in the Explorer. But you can control the order in fine-grained ways using the setting Explorer: Sort Order.
The default setting ensures that files and folders are sorted by name and folders are displayed before files. This is the usual sort order in your OS, so you likely are fine with that. But there are five other values for this setting:
- mixed – Same as default but files are intermixed with folders
- filesFirst – Basically the opposite of the default where files are first
- type – Both are grouped by extension type and sorted by name with folders first
- modified – Both ordered by last modified and folders are first
- foldersNestsFiles – Same as default but files with nested children are displayed before other files
The screenshot below compares four of the values applied to the same folder:
So if you have a particular use case for one of these settings, you may consider changing it at a project level. But I'm guessing it's likely you prefer the default order and haven't really thought about changing this before.
Now on to this week's hand-picked links!
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VS Code Tools
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Secure Annex — A platform for understanding security risks and vulnerabilities in extensions for VS Code and browsers like Chrome and Firefox, providing AI analysis, change notifications, and more.
Charmed Nest Icons — An icon set for VS Code, to add attractive file icons to your VS Code finder, with icons for both light and dark modes.
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GitusAI — A VS Code extension that adds AI-powered commit messages, generated from your code automatically. See the articles section below for an intro to the tool.
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VS Code Theme of the Week
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Astro by Mike — A pair of themes inspired by the Astro framework, that includes a dark and light version.
The dark one is shown above and is probably darker than I personally prefer. The UI elements are darker than normal, so if you like most of the focus staying on the syntax in the editor, you'll like this one. The light theme is decent too.
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VS Code Articles & Videos
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Best of the Rest
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Erdos — A next-generation data science IDE for Mac, Windows, and Linux, that features fast and accurate Jupyter notebook edits, a plots pane, AI document intelligence, and more.
sidekick.nvim — A Neovim plugin that provides an AI sidekick that integrates Copilot LSP's "Next Edit Suggestions" with a built-in terminal for any AI CLI, enabling you to review and apply diffs, chat with AI, etc.
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Awesome Zed — A curated list of awesome things related to the Zed IDE, the popular, high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
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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