vscode: Automatically save all on build - visual-studio-code

In Visual Studio when I trigger a build it automatically saves all files first. I want the same behavior in vscode, but couldn't find a way to do it short of writing my own extension. Is there any simple method I'm missing?

It's not exactly what you're asking, but will also accomplish what you want: you could enable the auto-save feature:
"files.autoSave": "afterDelay"
After using IntelliJ for a while, I managed to get rid of my habit of pressing Ctrl+S after every second typed-out word, for the most part (since it has auto-save by default). I was happy to find out that VSCode support this somewhat less stressful workflow too.
Other than that, there's also a Files: Save All command you've probably already found.
I'm actually not sure you can do this with the extension API right now - you can definitely trigger the "save all" command easily, but you'd need to be notified of when a build occurs, and I couldn't find any events for this. I think it will definitely be possible after #15179 is resolved though, which should allow extensions to participate in builds.

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How do I turn off "Contains emphasized items" in Visual Studio code?

I need to figure out how to turn off emphasized items in Visual Studio Code
This might sound like a strange requirement, but in my workflow vscode functions as less an IDE than a cross-platform ViM-esque frontend with lots of remote development tools built-in.
Due to this use case, I don't need or want the linting features to show up in the file browser. How might I accomplish this?
Attempts to solve the problem
I've run out of search terms here and cannot find an answer.
Searches including terms in this question's title yielded little
SO-specific search queries also yielded little
This seems to be somewhat related, at least as a representation of the "feature" I'm referencing: VS code containes emphasized items but no error
VSCode "preferences" do not appear to show what I'm looking for, likely an issue with me not searching for the right variable name.
In my experience with VSCode it has been wonderfully customize-able, so I'm guessing there's a setting somewhere ready to be modified to accomplish this. Any help much appreciated, thanks!
My use case was a bit different: after viewing some files in a git submodule those files became linted, and errors and warnings cluttered up my VS Code Explorer file browser window on files I had no intention of ever handling. I basically wanted a way to clear out those lint warnings, and found it here. The solution is to reload the window:
CtrlShiftP on Windows/Linux, ⌘ShiftP on Mac -- then select "Developer: Reload Window"
One by-product of reloading the window is that it clears out those unwanted warnings (at least until the next time I visit the file). It also has the effect of clearing out warnings on files that I would normally want to see, of course, but chances are I'll be visiting those files again soon, so it's fine. Not a perfect solution, but it works for me and my use-case; hopefully it can help others.
I don't know how to turn it off, but I had this on multiple folders and I fixed it by renaming the folder to a random name, then naming it back to the name it was before and the error would go away.
If you have this issuse then uninstall extention then CtrlShiftP on Windows/Linux, ⌘ShiftP on Mac -- then select "Developer: Reload Window" then type developer: relode page this issuse automatically resovle
i have this issuse then i uninstall extension then this issuse resolve.
I was able to permanently prevent this by adding the files to the .gitignore file. It seems that this happens in a cloned repository when you add new files.

VSC command palette (too narrow)

Is there any possibility to make command palette wider?
When looking for symbol (e.g. same functions with different set of arguments) to less characters are shown to choose proper definition.
Is there any possibility to mitigate this problem?
Using standard VS Code settings looks like you can't do this, which I agree should be possible. The strange thing is that I can't find an extension too that does this, so there may be a specific reason why this can't be done at the moment. By the way you can open an Issue on the VSCode Github and ask the developers themself to add this feature or why seems to be missing at the moment

How to temporarily disable "preventing dirty writes" feature in Visual Studio Code

In my project, I've used some build/linting tools so they can automate force change my code based on some convention code styles but when I was running those scripts, vs code showed an error message:
Failed to save "<file-name>": The content on disk is newer. Please compare your version with the one on disk.and continue to open the "Resolve to save conflict" tab.
It seems to be annoying and not convenient for me.
So can you tell me how to disable this feature of VScode for a temporarily time?
v1.42 is modifying this functionality including adding a setting so that the dirty file/save conflict notification can be disabled. See https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-docs/blob/vnext/release-notes/v1_42.md#ignore-save-conflicts
Ignore save conflicts
VS Code has a built-in mechanism to show an error when you try to save
a dirty file that has been changed outside of VS Code or by another
program (for example Git):
The motivation is to inform you that saving will overwrite the
contents on disk even though the file was changed after the file
became dirty. Clicking the Compare button lets you review your change
along with the version on disk and either overwrite or revert the
file.
In cases where you know that the changes on disk can be overwritten,
there is now an Overwrite button directly on the notification. You can
also configure files.saveConflictResolution globally or per workspace or
file type to disable the notification altogether. The options are askUser (default) or overwriteFileOnDisk.

Powershell 5 PSReadLine autocompletion how to ignore batch files (.cmd/.bat)

I use auto-complete heavily...
When I invoke the auto-completion with tab key...
Powershell also includes any files from the current folder
or in the current path in the autocomplete list
How can I configure Powershell to ignore these files
(eg. auto-complete only with Powershell commands/functions)
There is no simple way to get the behavior you're looking for.
At best, you can define your own function named TabExpansion2 and either fully implement tab completion yourself (definitely not recommended) or filter the results returned from the default implementation of TabExpansion2.
I recall discussing this idea recently, I thought there might even be an open issue, but I didn't see it after a quick search here.
I don't know the exact history, but at one point we did implement the behavior you're wanting. It did break some tests, and I think some people preferred seeing effectively useless completions over no completions, perhaps it was reassuring that completions were still working.
At any rate, I think it's a reasonable feature request, I'd suggestion opening an issue if you can't find one.

How to open multiple files and edit them in eclipse

I'm using Practically Macros, but maybe there is some better Eclipse macro player for this task?
I run some commands on huge amount of files.
How do you open all files from a folder - one at a time - recursive, then do some commands on them?
Also is there some better fix for using the save command if there were no changes made? Like only save if changes where made. Now it generates an error so I write an character and then remove it to always be able to save.
I know how to do the file editing, but I first must open the files manually and it takes alot of time because if I select multiple I can't use the open with (Progress OpenEdge AppBuilder (OpenEdge UI Designer) is default and I don't want that but thats not the point here).
Practically Macro example:
*file editing, many commands*
Insert string: -
Delete previous character
Save
Close
Play last macro
This edit all the currently opened files like I want them (beautify).
This generates an error when there is no more files to close. How to fix?
So my macro/progress questions where:
Is there a better macro player for eclipse than Practically Macro?
Is there a way to use the save command only when needed?
Is there a way to not get errors when all files are closed? Or a way to detect when the recursive loop should end.
Is there a way to open multiple files with in Progress Developer Studio in text mode?
Is there a way to recursive open all the files in a folder (one at a time and open with OpenEdge ABL Editor) with macro?
This version of Practically Macro had semi-usable Eclipse macro support for my current version of Eclipse (Mars). Another option that seems to take a more official approach, but hasn't seemed to get much traction yet, is EASE.
If you do these kinds of tasks regularly, you could script things externally, in perl or Node.js or any other of the dozens of high-quality scripting languages out there.
WARNING: there appear to be two older versions of Practically Macro you might stumble upon. One is also on the Eclipse Marketplace but not marked with the trailing "-0". There is also another older one on SourceForge.