I find myself in a situation where let's say I'm working on something to do with Cats, and I want the siderbar of Vs code (where it lists a directory of folder/files in my project), but filtered to only include folders with the word Cats in them. This wouldn't be my entire project, just a few folders to do with Cats, so I can focus more easily. Is there such a thing like this in the form of an extension, it would help me a lot.
First make sure you are using the latest version of Vs Code.
Tap with your mouse on the directory sidebar. Then start typing. A small search window will appear. Then hover over the search window and press the appearing button. (the three thin stripes). Vs Code will then filter on your search.
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Is there a way to filter files by name in VS Code? The search icon in the left nav pane provides the ability to do a global text search within the directory context but I haven't seen a way offhand to search for specific files. For example, let's say I want to search for "Chart.component.tsx" or find all test files in the project by searching for ".test.tsx". Is there any way to go about doing this in VS Code?
Type ctrl-P then start typing the file name. VSCode will search the directories for you.
Sorry in advance if this is not the right place to ask but can someone help me customise VS Code to work similar to Visual Studios Solution Explorer?
In Visual Studio we have the Solution Explorer which lists all files but also there are 2 very handy view filters; found in the title bar of the Solution Explorer panel.
Open Files Filter
Pending Changes Filter
if neither is selected then default to show all files in the solution
Ideally I want the Workspace view that lists all files in VSCode, but also a toggle to only list 'Open' files. (I'm less interested in Pending Changes).
I'm aware of the Open Editors view but I find this difficult to navigate since it's a flat view and isn't a nested directory structure. When every file is called view.html in its own folder it's a nightmare to eyeball the list of files.
Also I think toggling between "all" and "open" files would be easier than going up and down between 2 panels when you want to open something new.
So is this possible, does anyone know of a way to customise vscode to get this behaviour?
Thanks in advance!
In VS Code how do I search for one thing in one file, while at the same time searching for a different thing in a different file?
Using the normal Find when I try to search for something in a second file it overwrites any find I am doing in a previous file.
I see that the Search functionality enables me to open a search in an editor, but this functionality doesn't seem at all useful to me.
There is no obvious way to run a search on a specific file short of manually copy/pasting the file path into the advanced search options.
The editor that the search results open in contains adjacent context lines, which if you have a large number of results makes it useless as a simple list of search hits.
The editor that the search results open in is not editable, making it useless as an editor.
I need a list of results for each of two searches on two files.
Item 1 can be handled with an extension I wrote: Find and Transform. You could make a keybinding that opens the Search Panel with the current filename (or any file/folder/etc.) added to the files to include input. Actually I added a context menu command to the editor, or any editor tab or an editor in the Explorer to do just this.
Item 2. The search editor number of context lines is configurable and will remember your last setting.
Item 3. There is an extension, Search Editor: Apply Changes which can apply any changes you make in a search editor to those files.
I've just started using Vscode and have a created a WebAPI project. On trying to open any of the default code files (Startup.cs and Program.cs) whatever I type starts to appear in the blue bar as shown below instead of where I have placed the cursor. I have no idea what's going on or what that blue bar is.
I am able to add my own code files and edit these as I would expect.
I'm running Vscode 1.29.1 on Win 10 on a Dell Latitude 12 7275. The vscode extension
Enabled extensions :
That's caused by Vim extension. Uninstall or disable it, otherwise use insert key on your keyboard to put it in insert mode.
I'l leave this here for future readers
Basically, if I split files in tabs in VS Code, I could work with the files on the left hand side but could "read-only" all the files on the right hand side.
When I went to the extensions tabs I noticed that whatever I typed was being typed in the field in the extensions search bar. After deleting that, and clicking back on the "Files" tab, it went back to normal and can basically edit files on the both sides of my split screen.
If cannot type
Check where whatever you type is going (e.g. Extensions > Search bar)
Delete wherever it's being typed, and click back on the "Files tab"
Check if it works
I had to change the parent folders permission...
Try changing the entire folder to:
Read & Write: Allows a user to open the item and change it.
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-permissions-for-files-folders-or-disks-mchlp1203/mac
I recently switched to Netbeans from Eclipse, and the one thing that I liked about Eclipse I'd like to get in Netbeans:
The order of the tabs at the top of the Source Editor in Eclipse seems to be related to most recently used, so if I have a group of 5 files I'm working on at one time, they are all likely to be visible in the tab list, no matter how many tabs I have open.
In Netbeans, this isn't the case - I don't know what the order is, but it isn't useful for switching between my active files quickly - its usually faster to re-open the file to switch to the correct tab than to actually use the tab system.
Is there an option setting or a plugin that can change this behavior to something more like Eclipse?
By default the tabs in NetBeans are ordered acording to when they were opened. I don't think there's a way how to change it right in NetBeans and don't know about any plugin neither. I think this behaviour is just a matter of taste - I was used to NetBeans behaviour and when I'm using Eclipse, I always get confused about shuffled tabs. But as Kevin said you can drag the tabs to change their order.
When you press CTRL + TAB, the documents in the popup window are ordered acording to last used. This might be usefull for you.
Another (partial) solution might be docking a documents window (Window -> Documents) which contains opened documents and where documents are ordered alphabetically. It's better than re-openenig the files (as you wrote) especially if youre files are spread in different packages and you can't see them in projects/files view on one screen.
I don't think it does. However, you can drag the tabs to the positions you want them in. I would suggest just ordering by your liking manually.