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Visual Studio Code

vscode

Code editing. Redefined.

Detected by code, code-insiders | macOS, Linux, Windows |code.visualstudio.com

Visual Studio Code already syncs these files itself. Two writers on one file fight, and the tool wins — it holds the file open and rewrites it from its own copy. Leave these to Visual Studio Code, or turn its own sync off before handing them to anything else. Otty lists this tool like any other and leaves it switched off, and asks before you turn it on.

Sync rules

What travels, what stays, what never leaves

Visual Studio Code in your home directory Every rule on this page, by file

· settings.json Sync

· keybindings.json Sync

· snippets/ Sync

· settings.json Sync

· keybindings.json Sync

· snippets/ Sync

Only what the catalog names. A directory that syncs brings everything inside it except what is listed as excluded here.

apps/vscode.tomlThe file this page is generated from

id = "vscode"

name = "Visual Studio Code"

homepage = "https://code.visualstudio.com"

description = "Code editing. Redefined."

icon = "theSVG:visual-studio-code"

# `code-insiders` is the same editor on a nightly channel; it keeps the same

# layout under a "Code - Insiders" directory, so both binaries land here.

detect = ["code", "code-insiders"]

# https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/configure/settings — the user settings

# file is %APPDATA%\Code\User\settings.json on Windows,

# $HOME/Library/Application Support/Code/User/settings.json on macOS and

# $HOME/.config/Code/User/settings.json on Linux. That trio is `[appData]`,

# which is the same thing Electron's own app.getPath("appData") returns — VS

# Code is an Electron app and takes the directory from it — so one spelling

# stands for all three and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is followed on Linux.

# keybindings.json and the snippets/ folder sit beside it in the same User

# directory (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editing/userdefinedsnippets).

paths = [

"[appData]/Code/User/settings.json",

"[appData]/Code/User/keybindings.json",

"[appData]/Code/User/snippets/",

"[appData]/Code - Insiders/User/settings.json",

"[appData]/Code - Insiders/User/keybindings.json",

"[appData]/Code - Insiders/User/snippets/",

]

# The rest of the User directory — globalStorage/, workspaceStorage/, History/

# — is per-workspace state, and installed extensions live in ~/.vscode/. None

# of it is named above, so there is nothing to carve out of what is.

exclude = []

# Accounts sign-in tokens go to the OS credential store (Keychain, libsecret,

# DPAPI), not into the User directory.

secret = []

# Settings Sync, built into VS Code and signed in with a Microsoft or

# GitHub account, already carries settings, keybindings and snippets between

# machines. Taking these over means two writers on one file.

self_sync = true

# No machine_lines: settings.json is a preferences file. A user who points an

# interpreter or a shell at an absolute path has put a machine-local value in

# it, but which key that is differs per extension, and inventing a list would

# strand the settings everybody does want to carry.

Use it with your dotfile manager

Same data, in the shape your tool already reads

Opens Otty and adds this tool to what it syncs

Opens otty://sync/add/vscode. Otty ships with this catalog, so the link only has to name the tool — nothing is downloaded.

Every one of these is generated from the same rules as this page.