2/25/2023 0 Comments Edit visual studio code themeAnd I was immediately stuck by the absurd difficulties involved in this rather simple task. I remember thinking, one day when I wanted to change the color of the syntax highlight for my strings: “I am perfectly fine with everything I’d just like my text strings and numbers to stand out a little bit more. No fancy UI is given and this is perfectly fine, unless - well– you need to work on a different scale of a problem which doesn’t involve just fixing two or three values. VSC uses a JSON file based configuration system, where you open the settings, fiddle with some of the variables in there, save the file, done. The way you need to operate to achieve what you want is a bit cumbersome and it feels to me that it’s a part of the project still not mature, son of the “ release early, release often” frenziedness of the first days. One area that I feel like is lacking behind, though, is the way you can customize your color themes, mostly syntax highlight and chrome widgets. With version 1.15, VSC has improved a lot in this area, even adding specific settings (and UI: a nifty color picket) to enable the user to customise the syntax highlight feature without having to create a full blown custom theme. The feature set is growing over a nice monthly based release cycle, the customization options cover almost everything you’d need and the integration with Git is top-notch. I hope you agree with me when I say that Visual Studio Code (from here on just VSC) is today’s best text editor. Update: you can now read this post also on my new website (Ad free, cookie free, tracking free…). How to write a Visual Studio Code color theme from scratch
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