Install

Settings

  • Settings
    • Edit
      • Ctrl + Shift + P
        • Opens the command palette
      • Settings icon (cog) in the Activity bar
        • Click to open
    • UI vs JSON
      • By default the settings are shown in the UI mode
      • You can also choose to view in JSON
      • View settings as JSON:
        • Open the settings
        • User > Workbench > Settings editor : JSON
        • the next time you open the settings it will be displayed as JSON
      • View settings with UI:
        • If you want to view the settings with the UI…
        • Open the settings (which now is settings.json)
        • find the key value pair:
          • “workbench.settings.editor”: “json”
        • When the mouse if hoovering the line you will see an pin icon appear in the margin
        • Here you can choose UI and the next time it will open up in UI mode
    • Default Settings
      • Open the command palette (Ctrl + Shift + P)
      • start typing “default…” and when you see the Default Settings click on it
      • in the defaultSettings.jsonc you can inspect which settings you can set
      • use the search field to find what you are looking for
    • .env
      • You can use a .env file to set environment varaibles
      • You can for instance set the python path
        • Note if you want to set more than one path delimit with ;
      • The defualt setting is set to look for the .env file in the workspace but you can override this in settings.json
        • In the settings.json add the following key-value pair
        • “python.envFile”: “C:/path/to/it/.env”