Is "prettyhtml" the same thing as "prettier" in VS Code? - visual-studio-code

I have a Vue project. When I go into my VS Code settings, I see an extension called "Vetur". I believe Vetur is what takes care of all code formatting for me. Under settings, when I click into Vetur, it gives me a list of different formatters for JS, CSS, HTML, etc. as they appear within Vue files. Here's a picture:
Picture of Vetur settings
The default formatter set for most things is something called prettier.
However, when I go into settings (which takes me to a file called settings.json), I don't see the word "prettier" there at all! Instead, I see a bunch of settings for other formatters that weren't selected (such as js-beautify-html), and the closest thing to the word "prettier" is the word "prettyhtml".
In the dropdown list for HTML, I do see an option for "prettyhtml", but it warns me that it's deprecated. Here's a screenshot: prettyhtml shown as a dropdown option but says it's deprecated.
When I go into this settings.json, I see this part:
"vetur.format.defaultFormatterOptions": {
"js-beautify-html": {
"wrap_attributes": "force-expand-multiline"
},
"prettyhtml": {
"printWidth": 100,
"singleQuote": false,
"wrapAttributes": false,
"sortAttributes": false
}
}
Is "prettyhtml" the same thing as "prettier"?
If not, then why doesn't anything appear in settings.json for "prettier"? There are exactly zero string matches for the word "prettier" in settings.json.
This is all very confusing! Thanks.

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Auto Generated/ Predefined Code in VS Code [duplicate]

In my Vue.js projects almost all the times I need this code snippet as a template.
<template>
<div>
</div>
<template>
<script>
export default{
data(){
return{
}
},
methods:{
},
created(){
}
}
</script>
<style scoped>
</style>
Is there a way to tell Visual Studio Code each and every time I create a file with the extension .vue to automatically add that snippet to the file?
Simply, when I create new file with a certain extension, the predefined template for that extension should automatically be added to the file.
There isn't, not natively. But there is an extension called File Templates for VSCode that allows you to create your own file templates and generate from them. But I think you'd benefit from making an extension to do just that and maybe even more.
In the meantime, you can use a snippet to generate this instead of having to copy paste.
Go to File > Preferences > User Snippets and choose Vue from the dropdown. Vue will only show up if you have installed an extension that supports this file type. In this case, I'd recommend Vetur, but you probably have it already.
Then just add this entry to your vue.json file:
"vuetpl" : {
"body": [
"<template>",
"\t<div>",
"\t\t$0",
"\t</div>",
"</template>",
"<script>",
"export default{",
"\tdata(){",
"\t\treturn{",
"\t\t\t",
"\t\t}",
"\t},",
"\tmethods:{",
"\t\t",
"\t},",
"\tcreated(){",
"\t\t",
"\t}",
"}",
"</script>",
"<style scoped>",
"</style>",
],
"prefix": "vuetpl",
"description": "Creates a new template."
}
Then, when you create a new .vue file, just type vuetpl and press tab to autocomplete, and you'll have this:
Of course, you can also use a Snippet Generator to make your own snippets.
This is being worked on now and is built-in to vscode v1.70 Insiders and may be in Stable v1.70 early August, 2022.
1. Make sure you haven't disabled this setting by setting it to hidden:
// Controls if the untitled text hint should be visible in the editor.
"workbench.editor.untitled.hint": "text", // "text" is the default
2. Make some snippets that will serve as templates for whatever languages you are interested in in a snippets file (here they are in a global snippets file):
"vue template": {
"isFileTemplate": true, // changing to this soon
"isTopLevel": true, // was this
"scope": "vue",
"prefix": "vueTemplate",
"body": [
"const a = 'vue template'"
],
"description": "vue template"
},
"javascript template": {
"isFileTemplate": true,
"scope": "javascript",
"prefix": "jsTemplate",
"body": [
"const a = 'javascript template'"
],
"description": "javascript template"
},
The isFileTemplate option is key here. Any snippet with this option will appear in the following workflows.
If you have the "scope": "someLangID here" set in the keybinding then vscode can and will automatically change the current editor's language to that language ID.
3. Create a new file:
a. with the command File: New Untitled File Ctrl+N
[the following option in the new file message start with snippet has been delayed and won't be in v1.70 Stable - the command SNippets: Populate From Snippet is working though.]
Then you will see the message at the top of the file as in this demo:
start with snippet
Clicking on that will show any snippets with that "isFileTemplate": true, set. Choosing one from the resulting QuickPick thaht opens up will input the snippet contents AND change the editor's language association to the scope value.
b. You can also modify an existing file to the snippet content and language by using the command (found in the Command Palette)
Snippets: Populate from Snippet
[This command workbench.action.populateFileFromSNippet does not have a default keybinding.]
As you can see in the demo, using this command will delete all the current contents of the file AND change the language association of that editor.
So making your initial snippets will probably be the hardest part, you might look into the snippet generator app.
The extension Auto Snippet does exactly that.
You only need to configure two things:
The snippet's name
A filename pattern or a language for when the snippet should be applied
Recommendation
The author has some very custom defaults, so as soon as you install it, modify its settings and remove those patterns that you won't need.
Otherwise, it will complain every time you create a file and doesn't find the snippet configured.
There is a pretty good plugin called "Snippet Creator" that makes creating snippets painless.
I wanted a quick "template" file that I could re-use. Copied the text, then used command "Create Snippet", and it was done in a couple of steps.
It could also be used to create the same Vue templates mentioned above. You can edit the snippet, insert your tab stops etc, just visit Code > Preferences > Configure User Snippets once created 🥳

How to change the color of a specified syntax in VSCode, without affecting the rest of the syntax that is colored by the theme?

I really like the V.S. Code theme, Abyss. On occasion I find that the theme makes my code difficult to read, the text rendered in the editor will look like it is blending into the background, therefore; I thought changing individual syntax color would be a good solution.
I want to be able to adjust a couple of color-tokens, while leaving the rest of the syntax unchanged. How can I select, and change the properties of color tokens, without impacting any other parts of the theme that's currently set in the editor?
I want to use the code syntax color of the GitHub dark default theme with the Abyss theme on the rest of UI.
I found a site (click to see) that suggests changing the syntax colors with the editor.tokenColorCustomizations property.
I am not able to understand that how can I copy the color configuration from GiHub dark default to the Abyss theme.
V.S. Code users have the ability to style the syntax that is displayed in the editor, as well as the ability to style the editor its self — this includes the workbench, and all off the items in the workbench. To start styling the workbench, or syntax in the editor, you must first add the following JSON properties to either your user-scoped settings.json file, or by adding it to a workspace-scoped settings.json.
"workbench.colorCustomizations":{ /* properties here */ }
"editor.tokenColorCustomizations":[ /* properties here */ ]
Example of a properly configured settings.json file:
// "./.vscode/settings.json"
{
"workbench.colorCustomizations": {
"editor.background": "#08182F",
"sideBar.background": "#00132D",
"panel.background": "#00132D",
"activityBar.background": "#002040",
"editorGroupHeader.tabsBackground": "#00132D",
"tab.inactiveBackground": "#00132D",
"tab.activeBackground": "#003054",
"tab.activeBorder": "#003054",
"breadcrumb.background": "#003054",
"statusBar.background": "#005280",
"sideBar.border": "#103050",
"titleBar.border": "#103050",
"statusBar.border": "#103050",
"menu.border": "#103050",
"contrastBorder": "#103050",
"panel.border": "#103050",
"editorRuler.foreground": "#103050",
"tab.border": "#103050",
"tab.lastPinnedBorder": "#103050",
"activityBar.border": "#103050",
},
"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": [
{
"scope": "punctuation",
"settings": {
"foreground": "#C4C4C4",
"fontStyle": ""
}
},
{
"scope": "comment",
"settings": {
"foreground": "#246488",
"fontStyle": ""
}
},
{
"scope": "string",
"settings": {
"foreground": "#98DAF4",
"fontStyle": ""
}
},
]
}
There are many more properties that can be used to style your editor and syntax. A good resource to refer to is this template, its from the YO CODE generator, and it is what several theme designers use as a starting point when creating a new theme.
Theme Template (e.g. you don't have to make a theme to use the properties).
The most useful tool at your disposal is when writing theme properties — just like in the example above — is VSCodes suggestion widget. The suggestion widget is most often used to auto complete code, however, its usefulness extends much further than finishing a line of text for you. If you type, "background", while you are focused inside of one of the colors, or tokenColors, properties a whole list of available background properties will be available to choose from, and you are not limited to just background properties, the suggestion widget will work for finding borders, foregrounds, icons, buttons, inputs, bars, highlights and a whole lot more
Perhaps the best resource to read would be the VSCode Contributed Page on Color-Themes
EDIT: If you download the GitHub theme, you can find the theme's JSON file, which is the source code for the "Dark GitHub Theme" in the following location:
$HOME/.vscode/extensions/github.github-vscode-theme-4.1.1/themes/dark.json
When ever you have a theme's source JSON Document, you can copy and paste individual properties from the theme you located, into your ./.vscode/settings.json file using the properties:
"workbench.colorCustomizations":{ /* properties here */ }
"editor.tokenColorCustomizations":[ /* properties here */ ]
NOTE: It takes some practice, and some reading to get good at creating themes, or even just configuring your current theme to customize it a bit like your doing now.
ADDITIONAL HELP
I think it might help if I explain what it is your doing.
The workspace settings.json file, located in the root of each project...
"./.vscode/settings.json"
...takes precedence over all other configuration files, therefore, when a setting, or property is being configured in two files, and one of the files is "./.vscode/settings.json" then the configuration set inside "./.vscode/settings.json" will win-out the configuration in the other file, because "./.vscode/settings.json" overrides any configurations it holds, that are also held somewhere else. (I Hope that makes sense)...
Next to the workspace "settings.json" file, is the users settings.json file, which is located at:
"$HOME/.config/Code/User/settings.json"
So basically all you need to know at this point is your settings.json files are the word of the land, everything else is overridden. This is very important, because when you use the settings.json files to set color-token properties to highlight some syntax that is being colored by a theme, and your recoloring it because you don't like it, what you are doing, is overriding the theme's JSON file located in the themes extension directory # $HOME/.vscode/extensions. If you don't set a property in a valid settings.json file, then the property will remain unchanged. This lets you select and choose which properties to change, by overriding the properties you don't like. And as I have stated in the comments and above, these are the properties you will use to preform the overrides.
"colors":{ /* properties here */ }
"tokenColors":[ /* properties here */ ]
Rather than trying to copy and paste entire themes, just try to change a single element. Once you succeed at changing one element, then you can try changing several in unison.
ctrl+shift+p =>preferences:color theme==> select Dark+(default dark)

Add additional syntax highlighter plugin to PrismJS in HCL Connections 6.5 CR1 TinyMCE

I installed the TinyMCE editor on top of a fresh Connections 6.5.1 installation. While syntax highlighting using the codesample plugin is enabled out of the box, it works only for certain languages. I found the codesample_languages, which were overriden like described in this article.
externalPlugins: [{
name: "codesample",
url: "/connections/resources/web/tiny.editors.connections/tinymce/plugins/codesample/plugin.min.js",
settings: {
codesample_global_prismjs: true,
codesample_languages: [
{ text: 'ASP.NET (Core)', value: 'aspnet' },
{ text: 'Apache', value: 'apacheconf' },
{ text: 'Bash', value: 'bash' },
{ text: 'C#', value: 'csharp' },
{ text: 'C++', value: 'cpp' },
{ text: 'CSS', value: 'css' }
]
}
}
]
Now its possible to select them in the editor. But they don't work because the embedded PrismJS from the editor only support extend, insertBefore, DFS, markup, xml, html, mathml, svg, css, clike, javascript, js, c, csharp, cs, dotnet, cpp, java, markup-templating, php, python, py, ruby, rb.
So I loaded the missing plugins from a cdn, e.g. the batch plugin. Including it in header.jsp doesn't work because the Prism namespace is not initialized. In the footer.jsp it seems to have no effect, assuming that PrismJS is already initialized.
Customizing the webresource archive
PrismJS seems to be fetched from https://cnx65.internal/connections/resources/web/tiny.editors.connections/render/prism.js so I extracted tiny.editors.connections_4.2.1.1.jar in /opt/IBM/shared/provision/webresources, modified resources/render/prism.js and re-packed those folter:
[centos#cnx65 webresources]$ zip -r tiny.editors.connections_4.2.1.1.jar resources/render/
After restarting Common and Wiki (the application where I'm testing TinyMCE), there is still no syntax highlighting for Bash. Altough when I'm navigating to https://cnx65.internal/connections/resources/web/tiny.editors.connections/render/prism.js, I see the Bash plugin code which I have inserted. To see which languages are avaliable, I append
console.log(Object.keys(Prism.languages))
at the end of the file. This gave me an array containing bash. So the plugin is avaliable, but why doesn't TinyMCE show syntax highlighting?
PrismJS was not the problem: Connections changed the way how they use PrismJS. In the past, they just append the class so that we need to include prisms css/js files in the rendered page (e.g. header/footer.jsp). But it seems that since 6.5.1 (CR1), the TinyMCE editor calls PrismJS when a code block is changed. After pressing save, the editor places the entire parsed highlighted HTML with inline css in its HTML.
As a consequence, it's not enough to reload the rendered page in read mode because it was rendered before the lighlight plugin was added. The highlighting works when we click on edit and make a double click in the code block. Then click save in the code modal and also in the wiki page. Now it works:
Highlight in the editor, too
I found out that resources/render/prism.js is responsible for the readonly view, but not the editor itself. If we only add the plugin there, we get no highlighting in the edit view
To fix this, we need to edit resources/tinymce/tinymce-bundle.min.js inside the TinyMCE archive. Add the plugin JS code in the plugins section. For example, before Prism.languages.csharp=.... Now add the modified file to the archive
[centos#cnx65 webresources]$ sudo zip -r tiny.editors.connections_4.2.1.1.jar resources/tinymce/tinymce-bundle.min.js
and restart common + the application you're using (e.g. Wikis). Now the highlighting works both in the readonly view as well inside the editor:

Cucumber Full Support Extension in VS code isn't working for me

Describe the bug:
Curly lines are displayed in the feature file even when step definitions are available and properly mentioned in the settings.json file
Go to step definitions and Peek Step definitions options aren't displayed
Note: I'm literally unable to get help from anywhere apart from creating an bug.
Expected behavior:
User should be displayed Curly lines only for steps which doesn't have step definitions and user should be able to Go to step definitions from feature files
Image of my Project structure & Issue:
Image of my settings.json:
Project Structure Sample:
-PROJECT NAME
-featureFiles
-features1.feature
-features1.feature
-stepDefinitions
-stepDefintions_1.ts
-stepDefintions_2.ts
-stepDefintions_3.ts
-pageObjects
-logs
-configFiles
-commonUtlities
-node_modules
-reports
-package.json
-ts-config.json
Settings.json file:
{
"cucumberautocomplete.steps": ["stepDefinitions/*.ts"],
"cucumberautocomplete.syncfeatures": "featureFiles/*feature",
"cucumberautocomplete.strictGherkinCompletion": true,
"cucumberautocomplete.strictGherkinValidation": true,
"cucumberautocomplete.smartSnippets": true,
"cucumberautocomplete.stepsInvariants": true,
"workbench.iconTheme": "vscode-icons"
}
Please assist me in resolving my issue or identifying, where I have gone wrong :(
Press Ctrl + , to open User Settings
Scroll down to Cucumber Auto Complete
On the right side you need to modify these settings (you can find 2 examples of how to do this on the extension page). In my case, I added the following:
Open a .feature file and right click any step, you should have Go To Definition and Peek Definition working.

Overwrite VS Code snippet with user defined snippet

I have configured the following TypeScript snippet in Visual Studio Code
"console.log": {
"prefix": "cl",
"body": [
"console.log();"
],
"description": "console.log()"
}
It doesn't work however, because there is already a snippet defined for the cl (class). How can I overwrite that snippet with mine? I'd like to use cl, because I have other IDEs configured the same way and would prefer not change my convention.
When you type cl a list of all the possible expansions of the cl snippet is shown and your snippet is probably around the bottom of the list. In order to access the snippet at the top of the list you can added the following to your settings.json
// Place your settings in this file to overwrite the default settings
{
"typescript.useCodeSnippetsOnMethodSuggest": true,
"editor.snippetSuggestions": "top",
"editor.tabCompletion": true
}
Here notice the editor.snippetSuggestions. This is the setting which defines the sorting of the autocomplete list which appears when you type your snippet's abbreviation. By default it is bottom which is why your snippet appears at the end of the list.