Vscode on myByways

VS Code Snippet to insert formatted date and time

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve known that it is possible to create snippets in Visual Studio Code. Recently, I discovered a few tweaks to help me when taking notes. Here, I share a snippet for inserting the date and time in the format of my choosing in a Markdown note.

New SF Symbols for VS Code Touch Bar

Fri, 24 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

A few posts back, I described my no-code approach to customizing my MacBook touch bar in Visual Studio Code, where I used Apple’s SF Symbols 3 Beta icon library. Now, Apple has release a new beta of SF Symbols that makes the process easier!

Viewing man pages in Preview or VS Code

Mon, 06 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

I stumbled upon a post entitled “Piping stdout and stderr to Preview” by Erica Sadun - the cool bit that caught my attention was about redirecting man pages (UNIX help) to Preview on macOS. But this got me thinking… to redirect the output to Visual Studio Code instead!

Padding VS Code Touch Bar Extension Icons

Sat, 07 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

A couple of posts ago, in my (rather unique, if I may say so myself) zero-code VS Code Touch Bar Extension for Markdown, I used the standard Apple icons in the SF Symbols set. I found them a bit too large for the touchbar, and wated to shirink them slightly by padding them with extra pixels around the image.

The correct way to create a VS Code Touch Bar Extension

Sat, 24 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This is part two, deploying a Visual Studio Code touchbar extension for Markdown notes, using the normal “correct” development method. I’d suggest referring to part one, for my much simpler, zero-code method.

A zero-code VS Code Touch Bar Extension for Markdown

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This is the first part of a two part series on deploying your own touchbar extension for Visual Studio Code, designed mainly to work with Markdown notes. This post gives you a shortcut method with zero code! The next post will details a more “correct” method. If you don’t already realize - this applies to MacBooks with Touch bars running macOS only.

Customizing VS Code for Markdown note-taking

Sun, 18 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been using Visual Studio Code for all my notes. I have used Typora, Obsidian, and Zetlr, but I keep coming back to VS Code, because of its extensibility, customizability and integrated terminal. Here is how I set it up for note-taking.

VS Code Override Terminal Color Theme

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

I have been too very quiet! I wanted a mash-up of a two Visual Studio Code themes - a light color theme for the main editor area, and a dark theme for the terminal, which I usually keep open. Here is an easy way to achieve this.

Visual Studio Code key bindings for curly quotes

Sat, 27 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

When I write, I want proper curly quotes, with the correct opening and closing ‘single’ and “double” quote marks. However, the standard QWERTY keyboard doesn’t have these keys, having only straight ‘single’ and “double” quotes. Microsoft Office and Apple Pages “Smart Quotes” will automatically fix this, but since I write this blog in Visual Studio Code, here is how I setup my keyboard.