Customize VS Code Settings (Summary)

Thanks for a fun course! I have a question.

I’d like whitespace to show for just python files and jupyter notebooks (.ipynb). I tried this, but it didn’t work. All the whitespace … disappeared.

{
    "[python]": {
        "editor.renderWhitespace": "all"
    },
    "[jupyter]": {
        "editor.renderWhitespace": "all"
    }
}

Any suggestions?

Sorry, it did work. I didn’t have the Jupyter extension installed on this computer. Installing that extension did the trick. Maybe this will help someone with a similar question.

Ah, great it worked and thanks for adding the information :)

Thank you for a clearly explained, light and helpful video course!

An additional thing I would like to learn how to do in VSCode is to be able to suppress the various windows that pop up around the code I am entering (linters?). When writing it can be helpful but when editing it can be awkward as I have the escape away from auto suggestions and the windows hide too much of the screen. I wonder if there is a fast way to make them temporarily go away.

Here is my favourite additional setting that makes code look like more natural text, e.g. >= appears as ≥

"editor.fontLigatures": true,

@Nom here are a couple of additional settings you could try to remove the pop-ups:

{
    "editor.quickSuggestions": {
        "other": false,
        "comments": false,
        "strings": false
    },
    "editor.lightbulb.enabled": false,
    "editor.parameterHints.enabled": false,
    "editor.inlineSuggest.enabled": false,
}

Also check the VS Code documentation for these, or you can search in the Settings UI for any setting and it’ll filter down to the relevant ones. Then, when you change it, you can get to the right identifier by checking into the JSON that pops up in your settings.json file, like Philipp showed in the course :)

Thank you kindly for your help Martin. Some things seemed to work (although a helpful popup told me to use "editor.lightbulb.enabled": "off", 😊). It seems the main source of popups for me is pylint and ruff, 95% of the time these are good and useful to have on. I was wondering if there was a quick ‘popup quiet mode’. Thanks again!

@Nom ah thanks for catching that!

I don’t know about a popup quite mode in VS Code, but you could quickly turn off the extensions if the pop ups are annoying in the 5% of times when you don’t want them around 🤔

This course appears to be outdated based on the latest VSCode version. It is no longer relevant.

@TheOnePete Philipp recorded this course very recently, so I’d be surprised if it was outdated already. What issues did you run into? Can you describe them here so that we can check what might have happened?