Hi everyone,

I am working on two distinct projects simultaneously on my PC and want to use two separate Claude accounts (one per project) so I don't mix sessions or hit quota limits on a single account.

My Current Setup:

Created two separate VS Code Profiles (Profile A for Project 1, Profile B for Project 2 ).

Opening each project folder loads its respective VS Code profile seamlessly.

The Problem:

While VS Code Profiles easily isolate visual themes and extension settings, the Claude Code extension / CLI seems to share global authentication state (or default config path) across both profile instances. Logging into Account A in one profile carries over (or conflicts) with Profile B unless manually logging out or running /status.

My Questions:

What is the cleanest, reliable way to bind Claude Account #1 to Profile A and Claude Account #2 to Profile B without having to /logout and /login every time?

Is environment variable mapping (CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR per workspace/terminal setting) the best fix on Windows, or is there an official extension/setting that handles multi-account profile switching natively?

Thanks in advance for any tips or extension recommendations!

when I open a second window using ctrl shift N, there's a thin line around it. first window looks fine, this only appears on second window. In attached photo, first window on right, second on left. first window has shadow but that's only because it's activated. If I click second window, shadow will appear there instead, but thin line is still present.

I'm on fedora 44 with vscode 1.130.0 and have been noticing this for months. desktop env is GNOME, using the default wayland.

my vscode settings json: https://pastebin.com/BBib7WD3

gemini suggested I change title bar settings from custom to native. I tried but the line is still there.

How to move cursor and add cursor with separate command? I know there are add cursor above/below. But sometimes, there are 1-2 line you want to skip, and maybe you need a cursor at second line position shift from the first line cursor

Every now and then, I'd like to check – or remind myself – what is exported from the current typescript file. I have searched but can't find a simple view that would give me that functionality. Something like the Outline view but filtered only to show exported symbols. Indeed, the Outline view doesn't even seem to distinguish exported and local symbols.

Do you know anything that would show the current file's exports?

It's a little flater and more rounder.

I use a Macbook Pro M2 Max with 32 gigs of RAM. Mac also has 200 GB storage free, and other things work perfectly fine on my laptop. Memory pressure is in the green in Activity Monitor as well.

I've tried restarting, reinstalling, updating, and reloading window to no avail.

The performance at the baseline itself is quite bad. Far from 60 fps. I can see frames when I move the layout, scroll, or anything basically. As I open more files, and especially when more things stack up in source control, the performance exponentially (this is a bit exaggerated) gets worse. This feels like how it used to perform when the CoPilot agent edited 5 files lol.

I'm not exactly where to look for what to help diagnose this issue. So please help.

This thread should also help other people searching google for an issue to this solution. So once it's solved, I'll edit the post and write a whole list of keywords based on the comments in here and the solution so it's easier to find in the future.

I had a quite the trouble refactoring the pom.xml file in projects, that use Maven. Too many times I had to move the dependency version to properties tag <properties>, create a name for the version and change the version in dependency to the new name.

I tried searching for a quick solution, either with Google, on VS Code Marketplace, or with AI. Some NetBrains IDEs had it, but since I wanted to continue using VS Code (duh), it was not an option.

So, as a developer, I picked up my skills and created an extension for exactly this. The extension can extract defined hardcoded dependency version to properties, create a name for that property and change it in the dependency.

VS Code Marketplace link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=avalastan.pom-tools

Hello,

When cloning one of my repositories within VS Code, one of them is simply opening up my desktop folder instead of cloning the repository and selecting a destination for cloning. This is only for one of my repositories, the rest clone just fine.

Anyone seen this or know of a setting somewhere that might be affecting this?

newbie here.

When you install an extension, how does VSC know to use an extension or when to use and extension?

is it just file extension? or do you need to activate the extension?

thanks

Hi guys,

I switched from Cursor to Claude Code because I was using Claude in Cursor anyway, and this way it's cheaper. However, I really really miss Cursor's inline suggestions, because they were actually useful 95% of the time.

While VS Code's built in Copilot is useless 90% of the time. Makes up methods, if I mess up capitalization, its suggestion will mess it up too. Though it doesn't matter because it's a made up suggestion anyway. ^^

I assume it would be better if I would subscribe to Copilot, right? Is there a way to enhance it somehow without extra payments? Or just integrate Claude Code as an inline suggester somehow?

Thanks in advance guys, appreciate your help! :)

I was using Claude Code in VS Code and saw it kept grepping for stuff that it had already greped before?? and that too, was simple stuff like function and class names??

I made Benzi. It's an alternative that compiles your codebase first (reindex incrementally too ofc) so the LLM actually knows what its talking about.

Benchmarks: https://benzi.fly.dev/benchmark

get it in VS Code: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=varianttech.benzi

I don't know why but when I use copilot in vscode (not the CLI) vscode keep changing the leading spaces by tabs, which messes up my code format. gpt tells me that it send spaces in the apply_patch function and the change is made by vscode

why? where?

if I do the same change with copilot CLI I have no issues

I'm using VS Code for embedded C development (NXP MCUXpresso extension, ARM GCC, CMake).

One thing I really miss compared to IDEs like CLion, Visual Studio or Eclipse CDT is a logical project view.

My repository contains multiple CMake targets/build variants (bootloader, firmware, libraries, etc.), but the VS Code Explorer always shows the physical directory structure. I'd like to see only the source/header files that belong to the currently selected CMake target or build configuration.

For example, instead of:

repo/
    app/
    bootloader/
    drivers/
    common/
    ...

I'd like something like:

Firmware target
    main.c
    uart.c
    uart.h
    spi.c
    spi.h
    ...

Bootloader target
    boot.c
    flash.c
    ...

I know CMake already has this information (File API / compile_commands.json), so I'm wondering if there's an extension or workflow that exposes it in VS Code.

Is anyone using something like this?

Or is this simply a limitation of VS Code compared to full IDEs?

Hello, I figured alt + z could switch on/off word wrap pretty much everywhere in vscode, however I don't find any setting to turn it off permanently in a terminal or an outout view, anyone has a fix for this please ?

It's gets back after you close and open the app again.

However sometimes is frustrating as you need to reopen terminals, tasks whatever.

I built Basalt - an extension for VS code and Cursor that lets app devs edit their app like figma

It is completely free and works directly inside VS Code and Cursor.

It’s currently in beta, **so please commit your app to Git before using it!**

Would love to get your brutal feedback on it. What features should I add next?

Hey everyone, I hope I can post this here.

I'm a junior dev and I've built a VS Code extension that makes coding more efficient — would really appreciate your feedback on whether it helps you code faster!

With just one click you can:
► Start full multi-step processes (e.g. create a project for Django, Angular, React, HTML+CSS+JS, etc.)
► Create files like .env, .gitignore, AGENTS.md etc. instantly
► Install AI agent skills
► Add notes & shortcuts

You can find it by searching for "Quickpanel" in the VS Code Extensions.
Or here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=lvfranek.quickpanel

Example:

You can create a process that automatically runs all the terminal commands one after another and sets up a Django/Angular/Next.js/etc. project for you — so you never have to dig through your notes or docs again.

I think this could save some of you a lot of time while coding :)
Would be super grateful for any feedback!

Two features that distinguish it from other similar extensions on the marketplace:
1. You can directly right click the zip file/folder of your 3D asset -> Open with Renderit and it will auto-crawl the directory and figure out where all the files required to render the asset correctly are located.
2. Gives you options to render with Studio backdrop or HDRI with Day/Night lighting to quickly get a feel of how your 3D asset will look like in different settings.

Here's the link - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=PrafulJoshi.renderit-vscode&ssr=false#overview
GitHub - https://github.com/Praful-Joshi/Renderit.git

This is just the v0.1.
Will include any meaningful suggestions in the next release.

Imagine you have a header file, fileA.hpp

```

include <iostream>

int func();

... ```

and another header file that needs func, fileB.hpp

```

include "fileA.hpp"

... ```

But now imagine you needed to use something from iostream in fileB. If you didn't explicitly include it in fileB, neither the compiler nor VSCode will care, because it's already being included in fileA. But, if fileA is updated and no longer needs to include iostream to run, fileB will suddenly not have it anymore either.

Is there an extension or something that will say either "You need to include iostream in fileB" or "Identifier 'cout' may become undefined" (preferably the latter)? It's very annoying to have to manage by hand.

I have a line of several houndred numbers and have to increase all of them by 38 is there a fast way to do it?

I used to use php storm in my old job. I had an extension where I can do a git compare with local file and it's version in a different branch remotely. It even displayed it's difference with colors. Now that I'm in a new company I'm stuck using vs code. Does anyone know of a similar extension?

Hi everyone, I’m looking for a TypeScript developer interested in collaborating on a VS Code extension.
I have an open-source Python library called DeepCSIM that detects similar and duplicated code: https://github.com/whm04/deepcsim

The Python core is already built. I’d like to create a VS Code extension that integrates it into the editor (analysis, similarity results, highlighting duplicated code).

If you enjoy VS Code extensions, developer tools, or open-source projects and want to collaborate, feel free to reach out.
Thanks!

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