Is it possible to have background color changed in visual studio code but only for few programmatic tokens like classes and strings in Java and Python.
I'm able to change color but not background color for a particular theme.
"editor.semanticTokenColorCustomizations": {
"[Monokai Dimmed]": {
"enabled": true,
"rules": {
"module": "#943535",
"class": {"foreground": "#943535", "bold": true}
}
}
},
Maybe this is more like a function of highlight? This way you can install some extensions of that type.
Besides, during your code, I still remember some settings in official document.
In the part of Editor syntax highlighting, there are something like:
"editor.tokenColorCustomizations"
It can tune the editor's syntax highlighting colors('comments', 'strings', ...).
But I'm not sure this is what you want. You can see this for more information. Hope helpful.
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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 🥳
After searching high and low, I don't seem to able to find out how to customize the color of specific html tags in Visual Studio Code. Changing the color of them all is easy enough, with the following textmate scope:
entity.name.tag.html
That changes all tags. But what if you want to change just the color of the "Form" tag? i.e.<form></form>
So how do I make the "Form" tag distinct in color from the "Div" tags, for instance?
Inspecting the editor tokens/scope within VSC, I can see scopes such as:
meta.tag.structure.form.start.html
But that changes something else, not the Form tag itself.
Not sure why isn't working for you? This works for me:
"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
"textMateRules": [
{
"scope": "meta.tag.structure.form.start.html entity.name.tag, meta.tag.structure.form.end.html entity.name.tag",
"settings": {
"foreground": "#00ff00",
"fontStyle": "bold"
}
},
]
},
Note that I have to add entity.name.tag to each scope selector to get it to work. Demo:
Was there something else you were trying to accomplish?
I am creating my own Visual Studio Code theme, and I want the links / URLs to have their own independent color in HTML and CSS. From what I have read it seems that this was once accomplished with detected-link, but should now use linkForeground. I have tried both in the theme.json file I created, but neither seems to work. Does anyone know how to customize link / URL syntax highlighting color in Visual Studio Code .json file?
This is what I tried...
{
"name": "goto-definition-link",
"scope": "linkForeground",
"settings": {
"foreground": "#4B83CD"
}
},
Here is one of the discussions that I am referencing above.
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/18378
There are two parts to this: using syntax colors to set the color of links in the grammar and using workbench colors to set the color of a clickable link when the user hovers over it.
To set the syntax colors of a link, you need to determine a unique scope for the links and write a TextMate colorization rule that uses this scope. For example, using the Developer: Inspect TM Scope command in VS Code, I can see the css url() links have a scope of variable.parameter.url.css, so my theme would be:
{
"type": "dark",
"tokenColors": [
{
"scope": [
"variable.parameter.url.css",
],
"settings": {
"foreground": "#f0f"
}
}
}
}
The second one is easier; just use the editorLink.activeForeground color theme setting:
{
"type": "dark",
"colors": {
"editorLink.activeForeground": "#ff0",
...
},
"tokenColors": [ ... ]
}
This changes the color of the link when you hover over it. It cannot be changed per language.
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.