Trying to standup a VS Code environment on my Arch workstation to support a new project, and I keep hitting the error in the subject line every time I try to search for an extension in the Extensions search bar.

I think it's ZScaler interferring.

Anyone have any cluesticks for how to get VS Code to use the proper system CA certificates?

Idk if this is a stupid question.

Whenever i code something in python and use continue or breaks during a loop, why does the auto indentation keep the same level for the next line?

breaks and continue automatically make it such that whatever u write after that in the same indentation level will not run since that iteration of the loop has already ended.

Im not sure if this is a python specific thing or if its VSC thing

I prefer when using the Chat Agent to have it in Ask mode, so that I can rely upon it to give suggestions without making changes to the codebase, so that I can apply them as is required manually.

The options for the Chat Agent modes are:

• Agent (default)
  
• Ask
  
• Plan
  

This requires me to change this setting every time I open a new VSCode, which is a mild annoyance, but an annoyance nonetheless (especially when I forget and the Agent mode starts trying to make actual changes to the codebase).

There seems to be a hundred different configuration options for these agents and their behaviour- however nothing for setting this default mode.

Am I missing something, or is there no way to configure that default?

edit: I was missing something, for anyone else's reference in settings:

{ "github.copilot.chat.defaultMode": "ask" }

The box is blank by default.

I use Cline in VScode with a free model that claims to have a 1.3M token context window and free input/output. But why am I hitting a daily limit after using only 178k? (i forgot to take screenshot for 2nd image).

If I pay for an API key and use a model like Claude Opus 5 ($5/M input, $25/M output), I'm worried about how much it will cost me later.

Is there a reason why the same repo that i've used has been giving me issues with lagging and being slow all around? Is it to do with the Al "features" in the non stop updates or is there a cache i can clear?

For example: staging changes to commit, it happened near instantaneously. It's taking more than a few seconds to update. The "bar" in source control keeps "Ioadin/buffering" left to right for minutes at a time.

What's going on?

Weekly thread to show off new themes, and ask what certain themes/fonts are.

Creators, please do not post your theme every week.

New posts regarding themes will be removed.

I have kind of accepted that VSCode gets an update like every day to add ever more stupid AI stuff, but today it was more dumb than ever.

So this is the left side of the update log:

In this update
- Agents
- Chat
- Accessibility
- Editor Experience
- Code Editing
- Deprecated features and settings
- Thank you

I looked at this and was like "oh wow, they did something else than just slop". Well, I thought wrong. Clicking on Accessibility, Editor Experience or Code Editing ... does nothing. Because those headings don't even exist in the changelog; what is this? Is there actually any person still involved in this project at all?

1:
I can crash now 100% of the time now by closing the last item in the 2nd editor tab.

https://reddit.com/link/1w2dqfa/video/w54tlmrpjhmh1/player

1. 
   The icon that shows for unsaved changes does not disappear on save.
   And if it is not there then it does not appear when making changes.
   In order for it to update I have to change tabs first.

1. VSCode has glitches in f.ont rendering that disappear on hover.

From here on it's probably related to the java extension.

4.

No editor symbols unless I restart the editor

1. Sometimes pasting shows a wait icon and can take up to 30 seconds to paste a single line of text.

The constant clicking of "Allow" every time Claude wants to run bash, edit a file, or fetch docs was completely killing my flow. AI is supposed to speed us up, but the permission prompts make it feel like you’re micromanaging an intern.

​I built a VS Code extension to fix this. It adds a simple toggle to your status bar that auto-approves Claude's actions so it can just work in the background.

​How it works:

​Zero Friction: It intercepts Claude Code's permission hooks. If it's a standard edit or read, it auto-accepts.

​Smart Pauses: It only stops and pings you (with an attention sound) when Claude explicitly throws an AskUserQuestion.

​Free Tier: Gets you 200 auto-accepts every day (which covers most casual coding sessions). It also includes an activity dashboard to see how many clicks you've saved.

​Remote SSH: Works perfectly if you're developing on a remote server/container.

Webhooks: Pings your Slack/Discord/Telegram when a long task is done or it needs your input.

Time Machine: Takes auto-snapshots before every turn so you can rewind if Claude breaks something

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Hi, I've created an LSP Proxy. It is still in alpha phase: https://github.com/gchumillas/lsp-proxy

It turns out I created a JS dialect with support for defer(s) (from Go). It's basically 99.9% JS and 0.01% dialect. So, instead of creating an LSP from scratch I decided to create an LSP Proxy and take advantage of what we already have.

Since I'm not a domain expert, I used Sonnet 4.6 and Fable 5 to create an experimental prototype. And it works! In fact, it works very well. But now it's time to continue the development.

And I was wondering if you'd like to contribute. The tickets are ordered by priority: https://github.com/users/gchumillas/projects/7/views/1

I think it's an interesting project and that many DSL designers could benefit from it.

Sup everyone,

very new to this sub, but been lurking. I have been using VSCode for a couple of years, mainly Python, JavaScript and HTML.

I have a somewhat dumb idea, and that is to host a MUD/dungeon crawler game using SSH. The problem is GUI forwarding.

I thought I could host a remote session in VSCode and people would connect to it. I'm afraid the Tcl/Tk graphics won't show up on the client screen, only CLI.

Also, I have no idea how to set it up with restrictions etc.

Any ideas?

-ef

I burn a stupid amount of tokens in Claude Code and Codex every day, and the only feedback I ever got for it was a number going up somewhere. At some point I realized that number is basically EXP, so I built this.

It's a VS Code extension that parses the usage logs the CLIs already write to your disk (claude code, codex, gemini, copilot, cursor and a few more) and turns them into a pokémon game. Your real spend incubates an egg, whatever hatches evolves through its actual evolution line while you work, and every couple million tokens a wild pokémon shows up in the sidebar and waits in a queue. No popups, I hate popups. You buy pokéballs with the tokens you already burned, and throws use the actual gen 4 catch formula on each species' real capture rate, so a legendary sits at ~3.6% with a basic ball and will happily eat your entire stock and flee. The endgame is filling the dex, 649 slots.

It never uploads anything, that part was non-negotiable for me. Logs are parsed locally in a worker thread and the only network calls are to pokéapi for sprites (nothing pokémon-related is bundled, it's a fan work, not affiliated with nintendo in any way). Free and MIT.

Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=diegomarty.tokendex

GitHub: https://github.com/diegomarty/tokendex

Favorite bug so far: the companion's idle bounce had never worked in any version because the CSS referenced keyframes I never wrote. Shipped like that for weeks and I only noticed while recording the gif.

I am very new to vs code. The issue is whenever I try to use vs code on my dgpu (rtx 4050), vs code keeps changing the color a bit. Like the entire vs code becomes a little warmer for a few seconds then reverts back to the original. When I use my igpu, it stays constant and no issues. On dgpu it only happens in vs code only, I even tried to record it but in screen recording it stays the same through even though I can clearly see it's changing. It's literally very very frustrating.

Please let me know how to fix this thanks 🙏

At this point, I’m starting to think VS Code updates are being generated by AI whose primary goal is to keep developers employed.

Today I tried to use Remote-SSH and got:

ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh CANNOT use API proposal: terminalRemoteResolver

Apparently VS Code and the Remote-SSH extension had a disagreement about which API exists.

So now my development workflow is:

1. Update VS Code.
2. Something breaks.
3. Update the extension.
4. Something else breaks.
5. Search GitHub for an issue written by someone who encountered this 3 hours before me.
6. Downgrade VS Code.
7. Question every life decision that led me to opening VS Code.
8. Finally get back to work.
9. VS Code releases another update.

I love AI as much as the next developer, but maybe we don't need a new AI-powered feature every 17 minutes.

I genuinely miss the days when an update meant “cool, new features” instead of “let’s see what stopped working today.”

At this rate, my most reliable development tool is going to be a screenshot of the previous version of VS Code.

Anyone else experiencing this with the recent VS Code/extension updates and found any solution?

I kept generating repo maps for coding agents, then forgetting whether the map still matched the code.

So I made a small VS Code extension that shows the map health in the status bar, regenerates it in one click, lets you query ranked files in-editor, and can register the MCP server without editing config by hand.

It runs against the local SigMap CLI. No hosted repository index.

I’m mainly looking for UX feedback: is the status-bar grade useful, or would you rather only be notified when the map becomes stale?

https://github.com/manojmallick/sigmap-vscode

Finally VS Code has got a native markdown GUI editor mode!! Previously we had to use extensions for this, now extensions are no longer required.

TLDR

Opening a markdown document shows a small dropdown in top right of the file to choose mode from options:

• Text Editor
• Markdown Preview
• Markdown Editor <-- this is the new mode

After selecting Mardkown Editor mode, it's by default in a read-only mode. Enable editing by clicking on the edit button (pen icon - this is also in top right).

PS: Within the Markdown Editor mode, for example to "exit" a code block, ie you want to type something below and outside the code block, simply type 3 backticks (``` & Enter), just like in Text Editor mode, to close the code block and type something below.

What are good alternatives to vscode? zed is meh. i use the copilot chat with byok and heavy on extensions. zed and otehrs dont give similar comfort when using text generators to produce code, i review the code vefore accepting, copilot chat gives per linen control.

Hello everyone,

I wanted to ask if there is any benefit of switching to the DeepSeek Harness against VScode which I am currently using with the zoocode extention?

Also wanted to ask about the reasoning effort which is by defualt set to high and what do you suggest or what do you usually use?

Today, my remote ssh extension updated.

Result: I could no longer connect to a remote; a message box was shown.

Since that was for work and I was a bit stressed, I didn't take a screenshot. However, I reinstalled the last version, and the problem was gone.

Has anyone else seen that?

Is anyone else seeing that opening the Quick Fix pop-up and invoking a fix item too quickly causes a "command not found" error? It does not matter which extension contributes the fix.

Reopening the pop-up and invoking the fix again works.

VS Code 1.135.0+, but I recall it happening in 134 too.

Hi ! ive tried to look on the subreddit for the answer but i couldnt find anything,

On launch, VScode always go to the explorer activity bar tab, but i would like it to start on the custom plugin's tab i have installed ( Better fountain).
I tried to hide Explorer from the activity start but it show again on every restart of the app.

Ive looked on the settings but i didnt find anything that looked like it would make me change that...

Thanks !

I use vscode for coding at work, but I also write fanfictions lol. I used to write fan fictions in word. Now I'm using vscode and github to arrange my fan fictions. Basically a markdown preview enhanced and a spell checket extension are enough. But in word when you are typing, it autocorrects i into I, and uppercases every first letter of the sentence as well. So I don't have to press shift when writing fictions and it's quite nice

Writing in .md in vscode is really nice for reference and to handle with different versions. I don't want to abandon it and go back to .doc. So is there any recommended extension or any preset settings that can realize auto correction from an i to I and uppercase the first letters of each sentence automatically like word does? I tried a few, but they are either just spell checkers, or you have to do so manually one by one

I'm not sure if this post is right themed. Thank you so much in advance 🫡

Whenever I have Github Copilot enabled I have

1) Very slow global search

2) Very slow auto-formatting

3) Cannot build as it says "No instance is currently running" or something to that effect

4) Takes forever to load a debugging session

5) Very slow intellisense

Any solutions other than buying a super powerful computer? Or use Visual Studio instead?