User Settings on VS Code
Learn how to use the settings.json file in VS code.
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User settings
A code editor is only as good as a developer’s ability to tailor it to their needs. The VS Code team, knowing this, designed for customizability. All user-level customizations live in a single, editable JSON file. The exception is keyboard shortcuts, which have their own dedicated customization file.
Recent versions of VS Code added a friendly, graphical settings interface. However, it’s useful to see what lurks underneath. From the Command Palette, run “Preferences: Open Settings (JSON).” This opens up a JSON file with all of your personal setting overrides. This view doesn’t show you the default setting, though, it’s not very useful by itself. You can remedy that by adding this setting:
"workbench.settings.useSplitJSON": true
Save the file and reopen the settings file. Now you’ll be taken to a split view, with VS Code’s default settings on the left and your user-level overrides on the right, as shown in the first screenshot below.
If you chose “Always” at the Git commit prompt in the last section, then there will be one other override here: git.enableSmartCommit is set to true. Hovering over the rule’s name gives you a description of its meaning:
Commit all changes when