My VSCode extensions and settings recommendations, regardless of the programming language

Settings

Ensure confirmation when deleting files

In Preferences: Open User Settings set confirmDelete to true

Purpose:

It will save you and not once

But

Don't check Don't ask me again, because it would reset the setting

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Fix EOF (End of file) on file save

In Preferences: Open User Settings set files.insertFinalNewline to true

Purpose:

• linters may complain
• precommits settings requiring proper EOFs won't slow you down anymore

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Remove trailing whitespaces on file save

In Preferences: Open User Settings set files.trimTrailingWhitespace to true

Purpose:

• linters may complain
• precommits settings requiring proper EOFs won't slow you down anymore

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Markdown Link Checker

Enable:

In Preferences set markdown.validate to true In Preferences set markdown.validate.referenceLinks.enabled to "ignore" since VSCode markdown still does not support footnote link validation

Exlude links from checking

In Preferences: Open Workspace Settings add files to ignore in markdown.validate.ignoredLinks

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New terminal from other directory

Purpose:

In the case of this-website-source-code, when developing, I always go directly to the ./misc directory to start development, run the local server, etc. This saves me from having to cd misc every time I open the project.

Enable:

In Preferences: Open Workspace Settings set terminal.integrated.cwd to relative path from which the terminal will be started.

Like ./misc for this-website-source-code

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Add paths to exclude from search

Purpose:

For example, I have a directory called .common_links in the root of my monorepository, which contains symlinks to commonly used files and directories. If I perform a search, the results will be duplicated: one in the original location and another via the symlink.

The goal is to prevent duplication by excluding the directories you want to prevent the search in.

Enable:

In Preferences: Open Workspace Settings in search.exclude add paths to ignore.

In my case I add .common_links to the list

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Extensions

Conventional commits

Link: vivaxy.vscode-conventional-commits

Purpose:

• For commit standardization

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Quick navigation between open repository and GitHub, Bitbucket, Gitlab, VisualStudio.com

Link: ziyasal.vscode-open-in-github

Github repository example commands:

• Open in GitHub
• Copy GitHub link to clipboard
• Open Pull Request

also available through Explorer or shortcut keyboard commands

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markdownlint

Link: davidanson.vscode-markdownlint

Purpose:

• .md validation
• .md formatting
• Warnings-ignoring configuration options
• Rich configuration (not yet figured out the configuration files usage)
• Etc.

Tune

• In Preferences: Open Workspace Settings set markdownlint.run to onSave

Tips

To turn off warning for a specific line use the example below with the appropriate warning code

<!-- markdownlint-disable-next-line MD036 -->
**Warned line**

Comment

It might be rather annoying until you figure out how to ignore the warnings or tune it.

Also

Add to ./.vscode/settings.json to make tabsize to be 2 for .md files

{
  "[markdown]": {
      "editor.tabSize": 2
  }
}

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Markdown Enhanced Code Block

Link: KiranMachhewar.markdown-enhanced-code-block

Purpose:

• Copy Code

  • Enables a copy button on the code block in markdown files to copy the code

• Run Code

  • Enables a run button on the code block in markdown files to run the code in the current active terminal (Opens new terminal if there is no existing)
    • Currently supported languages are
      • Bash/Shell Script (Default)
      • Etc (that I don't use)

• Etc

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Markdown Shortcuts

Link: mdickin.markdown-shortcuts

Purpose:

Adds such shortcuts to preferences and key bindings as:

• md-shortcut.toggleBold Make bold ctrl+B
• md-shortcut.toggleItalic Make italic ctrl+I
• md-shortcut.toggleStrikethrough Make strikethrough
• md-shortcut.toggleLink Make a hyperlink ctrl+L
• md-shortcut.toggleImage Make an image ctrl+shift+L
• md-shortcut.toggleCodeBlock Make a code block ctrl+M ctrl+C
• md-shortcut.toggleInlineCode Make inline code ctrl+M ctrl+I
• md-shortcut.toggleBullets Make * bullet point ctrl+M ctrl+B
• md-shortcut.toggleNumbers Make 1. numbered list ctrl+M ctrl+1
• md-shortcut.toggleCheckboxes Make - [ ] check list (Github flavored markdown) ctrl+M ctrl+X
• md-shortcut.toggleTitleH1 Toggle # H1 title
• md-shortcut.toggleTitleH2 Toggle ## H2 title
• md-shortcut.toggleTitleH3 Toggle ### H3 title
• md-shortcut.toggleTitleH4 Toggle #### H4 title
• md-shortcut.toggleTitleH5 Toggle ##### H5 title
• md-shortcut.toggleTitleH6 Toggle ###### H6 title
• md-shortcut.addTable Add Tabular values
• md-shortcut.addTableWithHeader

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Error Lens

Link: usernamehw.errorlens

Purpose:

• Shows an error on the exact line it occurs
• More instant feedback compared to always needing to check the “Problems” in the terminal

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Symlink follow

Link: zaucy.symlink-follow

Purpose:

• Opens the file the symlink points to

Recommendation:

• Open Preferences (On MacOS Command+Shift+P)
• Select: “Preferences: Open User Settings”
• Find: symlink-follow.autoFollow
• Set it to: ✓

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Quick go to selected file path

Link: duXing.quick-go-to-selected-file-path

Purpose:

• Quicker navigation through the repository

Usage:

1. Select a file path in the text editor or move cursor over the filename
2. Ctrl (or ⌘) + E: fill the text of selection to Quick Open panel
3. Press Enter to confirm

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Copy filename

Link: bradzacher.vscode-copy-filename

Purpose:

• Adds options to copy directory name / file name / file name without extensions by right-clicking on the file in the Explorer

Exact commands added:

• Copy Filename
• Copy Filename Without Extensions

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.puml viewer

Link: jebbs.plantuml

Purpose:

• For .puml preview

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.md viewer

Link: shd101wyy.markdown-preview-enhanced

Purpose:

• For .md preview

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.ansi/log viewer

Link: iliazeus.vscode-ansi

Purpose:

• Provides a colorful preview for log files, matching console output conventions

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Copy Json Path as a.b.c.d

Link: Malo.copy-json-path

Purpose:

• Optimizes workflow JSON files if you need to copy a path to a nested value as a.b.c.d

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Change Log

• 30/05/25 added Malo.copy-json-path
• 30/05/25 added ziyasal.vscode-open-in-github