I would like to display the folders in my Workspace by Date Modified, but the files inside the folders by Filename.
Using the settings I can one or the other, but not both.
Is there an existing way to achieve this? If not; are there any recommendations on how to create an extension to do this?
Note: I am not allowed to use 3rd party extensions on my work computer, so I have to roll my own.
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Most of my projects have files scattered in different directories. I am just checking out vs code and am wondering if there are sufficient project management features to suit this need.
Ideally, it would have a way to place files from different locations into a named 'group'. The group could be opened and closed (I mean brought in to view, or loaded into vs code) easily via a pick list. A file could be moved from group A to group B; the file location on disk would remain the same, just it's membership in a group would change. I would want the relationsip between the groups and the related files to be savable so that the same groups and associated files would be accessible after vs code as been closed and the opened again.
vs code looks very capable, but I've only gone over a few tutorials and haven't use it for anything real yet. It does say it's file and folder centric, and OS level folders are not how these files are organized. Maybe there is a feature I've not seen yet or a plugin.
I too was looking for something similar, but unable to find a solution. I did find a work-around though. There is an extension called File Group that allows creating a group of file with full path to locations of each file. New to vsCode myself, it took me a while to figure it out, but worth the effort. Hint, once installed, go to settings, Extensions, File Group and Edit in settings.json to add your file list.
I can get#recommended:workspace extensions to work correctly but I am unsure as to why I cannot get the general #recommended to show anything. Where am I supposed to put the extensions.json file?
My goal here is to have PowerShell install VSCode, copy over some JSON files for specific settings and then have the user shown the companies recommended extensions to install once they open up VSCode.
I know I can force them installed with code --install-extensions but I want the user to be able to pick and choose from the companies recommended list based on what kind of files they'll be working on. What I can't seem to figure out is how to get that list to show except within a workspace.
For example, we have a Chef team, an Azure team, Linux team, etc. each needing different extensions.
The #recommended option has no config. VS Code decides which extension to recommend based on the file types that exists in the folder/workspace that you opened (official release info).
So, in your scenario, I guess the best option is to use Workspace Recommendations (#recommended:workspace), using a different recommendation for each team/project.
My media file contains three folders, of which, I want to have only one of those to be installed on user’s machine based on his selection.
One quick and dirty fix for this is to install all the three folders onto the user machine and then delete two of the unwanted ones. This is additional work and users might not like this. Is there a better way?
That's what installation components are for. You can select them programmatically like this:
context.getInstallationComponentById("123").setSelected(true)
You can configure installation components on the Files->Installation components step.
Is there a plugin that lets you manually add files to lists/categories? Something like Mylyn but manual and more files--kind of the way Gmail manages mail--a tagging system.
If I let mylyn manage my windows it actually closes them without any way to shut off (Something I absolutely cannot tolerate, I use my open windows to remind me of what I'm working on--my memory absolutely NEEDS the help)--on top of that it automatically adds files to lists just because that list happens to be open when I start doing something else.
I guess I'm thinking of a plugin that offers a different version of the "Package Explorer", one that is organized by task instead of by package hierarchy, and allows you to move files around at will.
...or is there a way to adapt an existing tool to do this (without actually moving the files around, of course!) Bookmarks don't seem to offer a "Grouping" but using a common first word for the description in my bookmarks may work... Any other ideas?
After messing with it a bit more, it looks like bookmarks might do what I want. It is possible to filter bookmarks by searching the subject string, so as long as I put tags in the subject string I can select a sub-filter and have it bring up all the relevant files for a given task.
I won't accept this for a while in case someone has a better answer (a plugin perhaps?)
I have various custom binary files stored in perforce and for many of the file types I have built a custom diff tool to show the content creators a diff of the actual changes to the file.
E.g. If the file holds simple key value pairs as a compressed binary blob the diff tool would load each version into an in memory format and generate a list of additions, deletions and edits to the file presented in a nice clean report view.
Much like the built in image diff tool in P4V i'd like to be able to use my own diff tool for certain file extensions within my depot and allow the users to use the existing P4V interface to pick revisions to diff between and examine history.
So, I am aware you can write add-ins to P4V but I can't find any documentation on it and I'd like to know if this kind of extension functionality is available in P4V and how to use it?
While investigating meta-diff from another answer I found a solution built into P4V itself. It turns out that the dialog in P4V that you use to specify your diff tool has an additional set of options to specify a different tool for different file extensions.
So it seems I don't need to write a plugin or extend p4v at all, I just need to set those properties correctly.
I don't use Perforce, but you should be able to do this using meta-diff, which lets you set up different diff utilities for different file types.