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So I've installed VS Code on my Mac and it works perfectly fine. There's just this white vertical line going down the screen which is kinda annoying.
I'm not sure if it's supposed to be some sort of guide, ruler or something. It just appeared from the start. Is there a way to disable it?
It looks like this :
There can be 2 places where it has "editor.rulers" in the settings.json.
Make both empty.
By default the ruler shouldn't be visible, but you can check for the following setting:
editor.rulers.
If set, it's an array with column numbers. If you want to turn it off, you can simply set an empty array like this:
"editor.rulers": []
This was bugging me a lot as well... so I finally tracked down the setting which turned it off.
In the latest version of vscode you can follow this process to get rid of that white line
Step 1: Go to Preferences -> Settings
Step 2: Search for editor rulers and click on edit in settings.json
Step 3: In many cases, it would be like this:
"editor.rulers": [
80
]
Remove 80 and make it an empty array and save it.
"editor.rulers": []
By following these steps the vertical line should be removed.
As my dart file was having that issue. So I have added in setting.json:
"[dart]" : {
"editor.rulers": []
}
If you search in your settings file - the default settings that is - you will find
// Controls whether the editor should render indent guides
"editor.renderIndentGuides": true,
Set that to false in your user settings - typically the right panel if you open "Settings' from the lower left gear icon.
You can also change the indent guides color if you wish. See Change indent color in theme for VSCode? to learn how to do so. Generally you can find a lot by opening up your Settings and then searching through the default settings.
If u just want to get rid of the rightmost line, edit your settings.json file
"editor.rulers": [],
And if you want to get rid of the left sidelines, just make sure
settings.json
{
"workbench.colorCustomizations": {
"editorRuler.foreground": "#00000000"//transparent
}
}
Vertical rulers in Visual Studio Code
steps for solution:
click ctrl+, in vs code editor, or manually open the setting in vscode editor.
search for editor rulers and after a search click on Edit in settings.json
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make editor rulers empty.
close the tap
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Here are some steps:
Open vs code settings.json file
then under json file search for this line of code "editor.rulers":
then remove the or blank the array like this"editor.rulers": [], and save the file.
Press Ctrl + Shift + P => Type: setting.json and then click "Open Settings (JSON)
Then change to this: "editor.rulers": [],
I changed my VSCode settings to define a tab as 4 spaces, as opposed to the default 2 spaces. How do I make the vertical guide lines appear on every 4 spaces, as opposed to 2? Please see screenshot below.
Open a .js file and in the status bar (at the bottom of the screen) you will find a button that says
Spaces: 2
Once you click on it, you get a menu at the top of the screen which has a button
change view
Click on it and you will be able to select the tab size for the file.
To change the setting globally, go to File -> Preferences -> Settings, search for 'tabSize' and click on Edit in settings.json. Then in the settings.json file set "editor.tabSize" to 4 and save.
I'm using VSCode and that's what solved the issue here
1- create a prettier.config.js file and among the options, make sure to have these here:
module.exports = {
tabWidth: 4,
tabs: true,
// other options...
}
2- Open the options bar (cmd + shift + P) and select "Developer: Reload window" to reload the IDE.
So I've installed VS Code on my Mac and it works perfectly fine. There's just this white vertical line going down the screen which is kinda annoying.
I'm not sure if it's supposed to be some sort of guide, ruler or something. It just appeared from the start. Is there a way to disable it?
It looks like this :
There can be 2 places where it has "editor.rulers" in the settings.json.
Make both empty.
By default the ruler shouldn't be visible, but you can check for the following setting:
editor.rulers.
If set, it's an array with column numbers. If you want to turn it off, you can simply set an empty array like this:
"editor.rulers": []
This was bugging me a lot as well... so I finally tracked down the setting which turned it off.
In the latest version of vscode you can follow this process to get rid of that white line
Step 1: Go to Preferences -> Settings
Step 2: Search for editor rulers and click on edit in settings.json
Step 3: In many cases, it would be like this:
"editor.rulers": [
80
]
Remove 80 and make it an empty array and save it.
"editor.rulers": []
By following these steps the vertical line should be removed.
As my dart file was having that issue. So I have added in setting.json:
"[dart]" : {
"editor.rulers": []
}
If you search in your settings file - the default settings that is - you will find
// Controls whether the editor should render indent guides
"editor.renderIndentGuides": true,
Set that to false in your user settings - typically the right panel if you open "Settings' from the lower left gear icon.
You can also change the indent guides color if you wish. See Change indent color in theme for VSCode? to learn how to do so. Generally you can find a lot by opening up your Settings and then searching through the default settings.
If u just want to get rid of the rightmost line, edit your settings.json file
"editor.rulers": [],
And if you want to get rid of the left sidelines, just make sure
settings.json
{
"workbench.colorCustomizations": {
"editorRuler.foreground": "#00000000"//transparent
}
}
Vertical rulers in Visual Studio Code
steps for solution:
click ctrl+, in vs code editor, or manually open the setting in vscode editor.
search for editor rulers and after a search click on Edit in settings.json
enter image description here
make editor rulers empty.
close the tap
enter image description here
Here are some steps:
Open vs code settings.json file
then under json file search for this line of code "editor.rulers":
then remove the or blank the array like this"editor.rulers": [], and save the file.
Press Ctrl + Shift + P => Type: setting.json and then click "Open Settings (JSON)
Then change to this: "editor.rulers": [],
How do I open a new file using Ctrl+P, so it doesn't override the current file, but rather use a new tab?
Also, would it be possible to focus the searched file instead of opening it, if it was already opened on a tab, to avoid duplicates?
When a single click to a file is made in the sidebar, Visual Studio Code opens it in Preview Mode, which allows you to quickly view files.
Behavior of Preview Mode
The tabs in the Preview Mode are not kept open.
As soon as you open another file from the sidebar, it overrides the existing file if it's in preview mode.
The title of the tab will be in italic if it's in preview mode, just like the below screenshot.
Important!
If you want to edit a file, don't open in Preview Mode, double-click on the file in the sidebar instead.
If the file is already open in Preview mode, then to convert it to edit mode:
double click on its italic file name in the title bar, or
press Ctrl-K Enter
Steps to Disable Preview Mode
Criteria:
If you want to disable Preview Mode all together, that is:
accessing file through side-menu.
opening quick open menu using Ctrl + P.
Solution:
Open the Command Palette using the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+P.
Type Preferences: Open User Settings. This will open the Settings editor. Search for workbench.editor.enablePreview, and uncheck the checkbox (changes are autosaved and indicated with a blue left border).
Additional:
If you only want to disable preview mode in the quick open menu, uncheck the box for workbench.editor.enablePreviewFromQuickOpen.
TL;DR for Mac users
Step 1: Press ⌘+,
Step 2: Search for Preview and disable Workbench › Editor: Enable Preview
For both to keep a file tab open when you first click and after use, go to the definition,
"workbench.editor.enablePreview": false
It is the right answer.
Instead of changing a setting, a simpler option is to drag the file from the sidebar on to the tabs bar. It opens in a new tab.
Go to menu File → Preferences → Settings → search for "settings.json", and at the last line before }, add a comma to the last option and paste:
"workbench.editor.enablePreview": false
For example:
{
"editor.fontFamily": "'Consolas', 'monospace', 'Times New Roman'",
"terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "monospace",
"editor.fontSize": 13,
"workbench.iconTheme": "vscode-icons",
"workbench.editor.enablePreview": false
}
In the quick open menu, a file can be opened in the background by pressing the right arrow key. The current tab, with the quick open menu remains in the foreground, and the same process can be repeated to open multiple files.
VSCode doc can be found here.
I am using Visual Studio Code 1.3.1 with the newly introduced tabs.
When I click on files, the first file will open in a tab. If I do not make any changes to this file, the second clicked file will open in the same tab.
How can I avoid this and make Visual Studio Code always open a new tab?
When you [single-]click a file in the left sidebar's file browser or open it from the quick open menu (Ctrl-P, type the file name, Enter), Visual Studio Code opens it in what's called "Preview Mode", which allows you to quickly view files.
Preview Mode tabs are not kept open. As soon as you go to open another file from the sidebar, the existing Preview Mode tab (if one exists) is used. You can determine if a tab is in Preview Mode, by looking at its title in the tab bar. If the title is italic, the tab is in preview mode.
To open a file for editing (i.e. don't open in Preview Mode), double-click on the file in the sidebar, or single-click it in the sidebar then double click the title of its Preview Mode tab.
If you want to disable Preview Mode all together, you can do so by setting "workbench.editor.enablePreview": false in your settings file. You can also use the "workbench.editor.enablePreviewFromQuickOpen" option to disable it only from the quick open menu.
Before you can disable Preview Mode, you'll need to open your Settings File.
Pro Tip: You can use the Command Palette(shortcut Ctrl+Shift+P) to open your settings file, just enter "Preferences: Open User Settings"!
Once you've opened your settings file (your settings file should be located on the right), add the "workbench.editor.enablePreview" property, and set its value to false.
You can learn more about Visual Studio Code's "Preview Mode", here.
If you don't want to disable preview mode you can explicitly tell vscode to keep a specific tab open. As mentioned above a tab heading with italic text is in preview mode.
To get a tab out of preview mode you can either right click on the tab and choose keep open or use the shortcut cmd + k enter that is mapped to the command workbench.action.keepEditor.
Furthermore, double-clicking on a tab also gets it out of preview mode (verified in vscode 1.44.0).
I came up with the same problem, and open setting.json file, add the following:
"workbench.editor.enablePreview": false
Use workbench.editor.enablePreview: false to disable Preview mode completely.
Use workbench.editor.enablePreviewFromQuickOpen: false to disable Preview mode for the files open from quick open menu.
For 2020:
easy as pie, tap preferences (command ⌘ + , on Mac),
The secret is "Enable preview"
they added it right there:
Turn OFF (uncheck) for NORMAL behavior.
i.e., Turn OFF to avoid the "automatic closing" behavior.
Open in new Tab Solution:
Open the command palette by: Cmd + Shift + K
Open settings file by: Preferences: Open Settings (JSON)
Under user setting, enable Tabs by: "workbench.editor.showTabs": true
Watch for filenames in italic
Note that, the file name on the tab is formatted in italic if it has been opened in Preview Mode.
Quickly take a file out of Preview Mode
To keep the file always available in VSCode editor (that is, to take it out of Preview Mode into normal mode), you can double-click on the tab. Then, you will notice the name becomes non-italic.
Of course, you can simply double-click to open a file. This will open the file in a new tab, skipping the Preview Mode.
Feature or bug?
I believe Preview Mode is helpful especially when you have limited screen space and need to check many files.
For anyone who don't want to disabled Preview Mode.
As I read whole of comments and I found what I preferred that is the shortcut key to pin the opened file from Quick Open/Ctrl+P or that's mean to keep the opened file to the editor, and yes also don't need to switch your hand to the mouse to double-click on files list.
Thanks to #jontem and #MattLBeck.
Call save command with Ctrl+S (⌘+s on Mac) is the easiest way to reach what I preferred.
And if you found out you do this to keep opened file to editor quite frequently, yes I preferred you should setting the option "workbench.editor.enablePreview": false or "workbench.editor.enablePreviewFromQuickOpen": false as others mentioned before.
⚡ Actually, VSCode shows you the preview of a file.
You can disable the preview with this:
"workbench.editor.enablePreview": false,
⬇️ Basically just add these two settings and you're good to go.
Menu File → Preferences → User Settings: add this line
"workbench.editor.enablePreviewFromQuickOpen": false
If you want to open a file permanently from "Go To File..." (⌘P), press "right arrow" instead of return.
This also keeps the Go To File... search bar open so you can quickly open multiple files.
This is not a new answer. It is just showing how to do it via UI.
Open settings via File => Preference => Settings. The most upvoted answer is the correct choice.
Then in search field type Preview.
After that select Workbench and look for Enable preview options.
Uncheck the boxes.
You can do it via GUI
Search for preview
uncheck the options Enable Preview and Enable Preview from Quick Open
Essentially, there are three settings that one has to update (Preference >> settings):
workbench.editor.enablePreview: set this to globally enable or
disable preview editors
workbench.editor.enablePreviewFromQuickOpen: set this to enable or
disable preview editors when opened from Quick Open
workbench.editor.showTabs: finally one will need to set this
otherwise, there will be no tabs displayed and you will just be
wondering why setting/unsetting the above two did not work
From settings you can find edit settings.json
You need to search by Preview. Please check the below screen short.
Add the below code there:
"workbench.editor.enablePreview": false
enabling using GUI
go to Code -> Preferences -> Settings -> User -> Window -> New Window
here Open Files In New Window under drop down list select "on" that's it.
my VS Code version 1.38.1
You need to edit settings.json file, which is located at:
Windows %APPDATA%\Code\User\settings.json
macOS $HOME/Library/Application Support/Code/User/settings.json
Linux $HOME/.config/Code/User/settings.json
{
"workbench.editor.showTabs": true,
"workbench.editor.enablePreview": false
}
As hktang above indicates:
one Click opens the file in preview mode (header text in italics)
Double click the same file, it goes out of preview-mode (header text changes from italic to normal font)
I think this is a "comprimise" feature allowing users, to "navigate" both worlds; preview and none-preview.
All you do is click the file to open it in the right panel.
Then immediately double click it to keep it there.
Or - just treble click. File opens in none preview mode.
HTH
Paul S.
Go to File > Preferences > Settings
Search for workbench.editor.enablePreviewFromQuickOpen
Set it to false or uncheck it.
to open another file in a new tab keeping the current file open,
first double click (left click) the current file
then click (single click) the new file
in this way, the new file will be opened in another tab
#OR
you can drag the new file from vs code project explorer and drop it beside opened tab, exactly where the new tab will be opened
Actually, VSCode shows you the preview of a file when you open it. If you want to open files in a new tab, just disable the preview with this setting (paste this in the settings.json file).
"workbench.editor.enablePreview": false,
— you can take it one step further and use this setting
"workbench.startupEditor": "newUntitledFile",
— It will open your VSCode editor with a blank new untitled file to quickly get started.
For those who using Windows OS:
Press Ctrl + Shift + P
Select Preferences: Open Settings (JSON) from the list
Select all and Paste this
{ "workbench.editor.enablePreview": false }
That's it now it will open in a new tab instead of replacing on the existing one.
For reference look at the screenshot below:
Simple and Best way is whenever you open new file it is in preview mode so simply press the CTRL + K and then press ENTER then you done with preview mode , Now this file will remain always open until you closed it that's what you need to do ....
1. Double-click your files instead of single-clicking.
Instead of single clicking on your files, (like I do in the previous GIF) double-click. This will tell VS Code that you want the file to stay open when you switch to a new file.
Here's my beautiful demonstration of this:
2. Double-click the tab you want to keep open
This works if the tab you are working with is in "Preview Mode" (italicized) and you want it to stay open when you open another file.
3. Right click your tab and select "Keep Open"
This one's self-explanatory. Simply right-click on the Preview Mode tab on the tab at the top of your screen (while it's italicized) and click on "Keep Open" once the context menu pops up.
Here's my beautiful demonstration of this:
When you single-click a file in the left sidebar's file browser or open it from the quick open menu (Ctrl-P, type the file name, Enter), Visual Studio Code opens it in what's called "Preview Mode", which allows you to quickly view files.
It's a feature, not a bug.
Very often while programming you will only need to open a file for a small window of time, to "preview" its contents.
FOR MORE INFO
One simple solution is, instead of making changes in settings of vscode, whenever you open a file through a reference,you will see that the file is in preview mode(the name of file is in italic) and in the sidebar you will see that same preview file in focus just double tap it and it will be pinned on the tab,so that it wont get replaced by another file in preview mode.
This is so confusing. All developers I asked didn't appreciate this default behavior.
I use cmd + P to open project files.
In my case, I also had to set workbench.editor.showTabs property to true (in addition to workbench.editor.enablePreview)
I'm not sure how it got changed to false. Maybe, I've accidentally set it to false using some shortcut.
Settings -> Workbench -> Editor Management -> Enable Preview
for me, shift + enter did the trick.
If you have opened a file in preview mode and want to open new file in another tab:
For Mac: use cmd + p -> find the file and alt + enter.