VS Code

• Find in Explorer - Quickly find files in the Explorer view with the improved Find control.
• Source Control Graph - More filtering options and interactivity in the Source Control Graph.
• Python test coverage - Run Python tests with coverage and get rich results in the editor.
• ESM - Faster VS Code startup thanks to the migration to ESM.
• Account preference - Specify which account to use for an extension.
• Copilot in Native REPL - Get code completions and Inline Chat in the Native REPL.
• Improved chat context - Drag & drop files or use IntelliSense for more relevant chat context.
• Test environment setup - Get help with setting up a test framework for your workspace.

Do you know the .vscode/tasks.json file? You can add it to your project, and @vscode will run your configured commands automatically when you open the project ✨

I use this for the Inertia Table so it starts the web server and Vite without me having to open terminals for them 👌

#Laravel #PHP #JS #coding

• Default browser - Configure which browser to use for opening links in VS Code.
• Revert PRs - Easily create a revert PR for a merged PR.
• Extension updates - More easily configure auto updating of extensions.
• Override profiles - Override an existing profile with the Profiles Editor.
• Paste files in CSS - Quickly add CSS file references with paste or drag and drop.
• Move Panel to top - Position the Panel section at the top of the workbench.
• Copilot uses GPT-4o - GitHub Copilot Chat upgraded to OpenAI's GPT-4o.

Upvote the issue on Github if you want to see this feature added into VSCode.

Here is how you can add a simple action to open a folder in VSCodium within Nemo file manager.

1. Create a new file in ~/.local/share/nemo/actions/ and name the file vscodium.nemo_action
2. Open the file in a text editor
3. Copy the code below into the file

[Nemo Action]
Name=Open in VSCodium
Comment=Open VSCodium in the selected folder
Exec=codium %F
Icon-Name=vscodium
Selection=Any
Extensions=dir;

4. Save the changes made to the file
5. Now when you right click inside a folder in Nemo, it will show an option "Open in VSCodium" and when you click this option, it will launch VSCodium using the currently directory as the workspace.

This can be modified to work with Visual Studio Code (Which is closed source unlike VSCodium) by editing codium %F to code %F

Time complexity isn't even associated to the size of the list. Amazing!

• Preview: Incoming/Outgoing changes graph - Visualize incoming and outgoing changes in the Source Control view.
• Python environments - Enhanced environment discovery with python-environment-tools.
• Smart Send in native REPL - Smoothly run code chunks in the native REPL.
• GitHub Copilot extensibility - Chat and Language Model APIs available in VS Code Stable.
• Preview: Profiles Editor - Manage your profiles in a single place.
• Custom tab labels - More variable options and support for multiple extensions.
• TypeScript 5.5 - Syntax checking for regular expressions and other language features.
• JavaScript Debugger - Inspect shadowed variables while debugging JavaScript.

I need to be able to see the difference between the current working file and the previous commit as I am editing the file. The only history plugins I can find either use pop-ups (which disappear when I start typing) or a dedicated diff-view which takes up too much space on my small monitor.

• Editor tabs multi-select - Select and perform actions on multiple tabs simultaneously.
• Profiles - Open new windows with your preferred profile.
• Editor actions - Immediately access editor actions across editor groups.
• Copilot extensibility - Build AI into your extensions with the Chat and Language Model API.
• VS Code Speech - Automatically read out Copilot Chat responses with text-to-speech.
• Find in notebooks - Restrict search to selected cells in notebooks.
• Chat context - Quickly attach different types of context in chat.
• IntelliSense in chat responses - Better understand generated code with IntelliSense.

Is there an extension that allows for automatic stashing on branch switch like GitHub desktop does?

There was an a proposal about it, but it got declined: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/86668

• Preview Markdown images & videos - Hover over a link to preview images & videos in Markdown.
• Enhanced branch switching - Restore open editors seamlessly when switching between branches.
• Middle-click paste support - Paste text quickly in the terminal using a mouse middle-click.
• WSL over Remote - SSH - Use WSL when connected to a remote machine via Remote - SSH.
• Accessible View - Navigate through comments, chat code blocks & terminal commands from the Accessible View.
• Keyboard shortcuts for UI actions - Customize keybindings for UI actions directly with a right-click.
• Quick Search - Search for text across your workspace with Quick Search.
• AI-powered rename suggestions - Get intelligent rename suggestions in the editor with Copilot.
• Copilot content exclusion - Exclude files from being used in the Copilot context.
• Local workspace extension - Include and install extensions directly in your workspace.

• Apply custom editor labels - Distinguish between editors with same file names.
• Locked scrolling - Compare editors side-by-side with synchronized scrolling.
• Extension update improvements - Restart extensions without reload & update extensions with VS Code releases.
• Test Coverage API - Native code coverage support in VS Code.
• Folding markers in minimap - Easily identify and navigate to code sections from minimap.
• Quick Search improvements - Sticky file path separators and separator buttons.
• Notebook Run cells in section - Quickly run all cells in a notebook section.
• Copilot improvements - Improved inline chat UI, commit messages, and used references.
• Python auto-detect improvements - Detect startup files for Flask & Django, discover Hatch environments.
• Preview: Terminal inline chat - Start a Copilot inline chat conversation directly from the terminal.

• Voice dictation in editor - Use your voice to dictate directly in the editor.
• Multi-cursor inline suggestions - Review and accept inline suggestions for multiple cursors.
• Copilot-powered rename suggestions - Get rename suggestions for symbols from Copilot.
• Side-by-side preview refactoring - Preview refactorings across files with multi diff editor.
• Smarter Python imports - Improvements for adding missing Python imports.
• Sticky scroll in editor - Sticky scroll is enabled by default in the editor.
• Multi-language support for speech - Multiple languages supported for speech recognition.
• Copilot suggestions for dev containers - Get template and feature suggestions for dev container configurations.

I have the New Year itch to fiddle with my environment.

Browsing the top/featured extensions only goes so far, so what are a few of your favorite extensions for Python development?

I am an intermediate VSC user, and have a problem with commands that are too close to each other in the right-click context menu for the SFTP. I constantly click something other than the top one marked here. It causes a mess that's easy enough to clean up but it's annoying. Any suggestions here?