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If you would like to have different tab configurations (tabs or spaces) along with the number of tab chars for different file types you can update your user settings.
The first thing you need to do is figure out what the file type code thinks the file that you want to change is. Open the file in vscode and then look at the bottom right of your window. In my case, I’m looking at an avro schema (.avsc) file:
In → Continue reading “Setting Per File Type Tab Configurations in VSCode”
I usually have at least two panes in my IDE so that I can see two files, or different parts of the same file, at the same time. VSCode pegs the debug variables in the Explorer side bar so I also end up having to make that panel large at times to see the variables while debugging.
Following are the keybindings that you can add to enable you to toggle the visibility of the left-hand side panel.
Add the following → Continue reading “VSCode Keyboard Shortcut to Toggle Visibility of the Explorer Side Panel”
I’ve been writing a lot of Golang code lately. For the most part, I always write unit and integration tests for whatever program that I am building. I’ve been using VSCode as my IDE and really like it. The one thing that I was having trouble with was getting the code coverage to show in the IDE for my integration tests.
I have a different build tag in my unit test code and my integration test code so that I → Continue reading “Code Coverage for Golang Integration Tests with Build Tags”
In order to have two separate VSCode windows open that point to the same workspace, press CTRL+Shift+P and then search for Duplicate As Workspace in New Window. This will open a new window that is associated with the current workspace.
The thing to keep in mind is that it just DUPLICATED the existing workspace in a new window. Notice that at the top of the EXPLORER it will say UNTITLED (WORKSPACE). You can now work with two windows → Continue reading “Running Multiple VSCode Windows from the Same Workspace”
A recipe for a double-crust pie. See this post for the pie crust recipe.
The egg whites folded into the mix make it a more fluffy and less dense pie. A wonderful treat! A recipe for a single-crust pie. See this post for the pie crust recipe.
Go’s dependency management is based solely on git repos. Most of the libraries have publicly available repos from which you can clone the source and then build your project.
In my case, most of the Go that I’m writing ends up in private repos in Bitbucket. Currently, I’ve got a program that I am writing that is dependent on a library that I have written that is hosted as a private repo in Bitbucket. I wanted to setup a Bitbucket → Continue reading “Configuring a Bitbucket Pipeline for a Golang Project with Privately Hosted Dependencies”
Sometimes I need to have quite a few tabs open in a terminal window. For some reason, under XFCE4 when I press CTRL+Alt+A, which is defined as the keyboard shortcut to rename a tab, it hides the window.
The only way that I was able to get it to work was to re-label the shortcut to CTRL+Alt+Z under PreferencesKeybindings in Terminator.→ Continue reading “Renaming Terminator Tabs Under XFCE4”
One of the ways to separate unit and integration test code in golang is to use build tags.
A TLDR; on build tags is that it is a way to tell the compiler which source code to include or ignore when doing a build.
For example: if we have the following golang code:
// +build integration
package integration
import "testing"
func TestSomething(t *testing.T) {
// Some test code
}Then this code will only be compiled if we run the → Continue reading “Configuring VSCode to Use Build Tags in GoLang to Separate Integration and Unit Test Code”
For me, I have a hard time distinguishing between the folders, sub-folders, and files in the file explorer of VSCode because the indent is not very pronounced.
In order to increase the indent go to File -Preferences -Settings. Search for “indent” and then click on Workbench in the left-hand side navigation pane of the settings window and scroll down to Workbench Tree: Indent and then enter the number of pixels for the tree indentation. I doubled it, going → Continue reading “VSCode Change Indent for File Explorer Tree”