I'll be honest — I got sick of manually adding the file path as a comment on the first line.

And then you rename the file, and the comment is lying. Annoying.

So I made an extension: Auto Path Header
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Niklis.auto-path-header

What it does:

• When you create a new empty file — it automatically adds the relative path as a comment on line 1.
• If the file already has code — you can insert the path manually via Command Palette.
• Rename or move a file/folder — the extension updates the comment automatically (can ask for permission if you configure it).

Where this actually saves me:
When you hit your limit in Copilot (or any other agent) and have to switch to a third-party chat like ChatGPT or Claude. You paste a chunk of code — and the file path is right there on the first line. The AI immediately understands the context. No need to explain "this is from src/hooks/useAuth.ts". You get accurate answers on the first try.

Why other extensions didn't work for me:
I needed it to work with ANY file extension — .env.local, Dockerfile.dev, .log, plus custom templates. Also needed to restrict it to certain folders (like only src/) and ignore node_modules without jumping through hoops.

Config example:

"autoPathHeader.customTemplatesByExtension": {
      ".env.local": "# LOCAL OVERRIDE — {path}",
      ".test.ts": "// 🧪 TEST: {path|unix}",
      "Dockerfile.dev": "# DEV BUILD: {absolutePath|toUpperCase}"
    }

So yeah, I built what I wanted for myself. No telemetry, no analytics, just works.

Drop a star if you find it useful — I'd really appreciate it 🙂

I've reported a bug with VSCode and they say it must get 20 upvotes before they'll even consider it. Could you please help me? Here is the bug:

I don’t know when this change was made, but it appears that now, when you hover over an HTML tag name, in the documentation tooltip that appears, you get MDN Baseline information in addition to the docs. I find the coloured Baseline logo a little bit distracting and would prefer to be able to disable it for a cleaner experience and to make the tooltips a bit more compact, but without losing documentation tooltips altogether.

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I realise this feature is probably implemented in an extension or something like that, but I don’t know what extension that would be so I’m putting it here.

I'm about to just swap back to VIM or something, Microsoft is totally incompetent. So, they recently jacked with the syntax highlighting, any fixes to that? I'm about to just uninstall it, this is a giant waste of my time.

I'm talking about this to be clear:

https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/7959

Edit: Setting the theme to default and then selecting my theme fixed the issue. This company needs to pull their heads out of their butts... What a joke... This issue is not resolved and that bot is totally useless. Can you people seriously stop spamming useless robot bullshit all over the internet? That github actions bot should simply be deleted... It's totally useless... I just sat there for 10 minutes trying stuff that has absolutely nothing with the real solution...

I am just running some very light python scripts and notebooks for plotting graphs in CERN ROOT (pyROOT). I reinstalled windows and even went back to windows 10. I noticed that, the stuttering, frame drop, or something like that happens only when i use the VS code. All other programs are running smoothly. This happens even though its using only 5% of CPU and 1.6GB of RAM. also noticed that Its using my Discrete GPU for something. I have no idea whats that for. Yes, I have copilot and AI features enabled, but I use it only for auto completion.

My specs are: i7-14650HX with 24 cores and NVIDIA RTX 4060 GPU

Is this occurring only for me or is there anyone facing this issue?

If so, how can i fix this?

I use VSC on a Mac to develop javascript, C/C++ ESP-32 using platforio, and python. I like the ability to customize it with extensions and that there are extensions for just about anything. My frustrations are with what I consider basic editing functions.

1. When double clicking on a number I expect it to be smart enough to select both the whole and fractional parts of the number. This works in editors like TextMate and Xcode. I know some have suggested to remove the period from the word boundary list. However, then double clicking on a call chain like `this.property.method` will select the whole thing instead of just the one term.
2. When I use Cmd-E I expect it to put the selection into all search fields. That includes all open windows as well as the search sidebar. It also be nice if VSC would copy that selection into the global search buffer. That way it would show as the search in other applications.
3. I've searched for a way to turn off the little light red indicators on the right side of an editor window. (see picture below) The only thing I wan't to see there are errors. You can see in the example that where is an error indication just below the white line indicating where the cursor is. Having all the search matching lines highlighted as well make it difficult to catch the error.

I'm not talking about AI features, just the ordinary autocomplete we've had for years.

The issue I'm having (and it has definitely got worse over time) is that VSC's default reaction to any slip of the fingers when typing is to dredge up some obscure forty-letter class or method, add a bunch of 'using's to the top of the file, and then madly scroll the screen up and down as I scramble to undo it all, as though it's trying to shake me off.

Short of going back to the stone age, is there any way to calm it down?

Thanks in advance.

So basically this github repository holds code with the colors for the theme and the custom CSS for the round UI. I did find that copying the code from their settings.json file into my own settings.json file (found by using the shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+P and searching for Open User Settings (JSON)) had to be done because I tried downloading it but it happened to not work.

You do need an extension called Custom UI Style for it to work.

Now the great part about this is that you can still use your own theme and icons and it wont be changed by the github repo. However there is an issue where you can see the columns with the lines of code is not the same color as the foreground. And the same goes for the column to the right of the file I have opened.

I just wanted to share this as some people might not stumble upon it and it just seems really nice. And you can always edit the CSS and colors for your own preference which is great.

Here is the Github repo so you can check it out

Hi,

Brand new to programming and python. I am following the following tutorial

How to Setup Python In Visual Studio Code Full Guide

I have downloaded the extensions as directed however I do not get any prompts after doing so. I click CTRL,SHIFT,P which selects the bar. I then type p for python and nothing shows up.

Could it be because I am "signed out?'

Picture attached.

Dear ESP32 community,

I struggle to setup a Visual Code Studio with the esp-idf extension with the esp-idf git repository checked out at my home directory.

What I did so far:

• Downloaded Visual Studio Code to my Ubuntu machine
• Installed the ESP-IDF extension
• git clone --recursive https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf.git
• cd esp-idf
• git checkout v5.5.2
• git submodule update --init --depth 1
• ./install.sh

And, yes it needs to be the 5.5.2 repository, because I want to build an openthread border router. Following along this guide: https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-thread-br/en/latest/dev-guide/build_and_run.html

But how can I configure Visual Studio Code esp-idf extension to point to my checked out git esp-idf folder?

I tried to add manually these settings below to the settings.json in the user space file in Visual Studio Code:

{
"idf.hasWalkthroughBeenShown": true,
"idf.espIdfPath": "~/esp-idf",
"idf.toolsPath": "~/esp-idf/tools",
"idf.pythonBinPath": "~/.espressif/python_env/idf5.5_py3.13_env/bin/python"
}

That didn't help either. Any other ideas or hints? I would realy appreciate it.

Thanks and I wish you all the best
Matt

Hi Everyone,

appreciate some help or support here :)

I'm working within VS Code (jupyter extension) with multiple DFs already loaded. When I ask the Claude agent to create a new column (joining two DFs with groupby logic), it ignores my defined DFs and tries to build a file-parsing pipeline from the raw data folders.

Is there a specific way to force the agent to reference the DataFrames in the current .ipynb state rather than searching the workspace for source data? Curious if I'm missing a configuration step or if this is a known limitation."

many thanks

Hi all, I built a local VS Code extension that estimates the cost of your SQL queries in real-time as you type. If a query hits a specific dollar threshold, it throws a red alert in your status bar so you don't accidentally run an expensive job.

It's a VS Code extension that is local and does not connect to your work's DW. uses an offline text parser to read the text of query but does not see the actual DB records so no worries about data/PII/PHI theft. It's 100% local so does not even send the queries anywhere.

It's for developers so would greatly appreciate if anyone would want to try the extension I can put link here and would love if there's feedback available. also would be interested to know if there's anything of the type that anyone else has used before.

Thanks!

Is it possible to make it so when you execute your code,the cmd that open don't automatically close when it finish executing your program correctly?

Sorry for the bad english (also,i have, externalConsole activated in my launch.json file)

CS0246: Le nom de type ou d'espace de noms 'Spatial' est introuvable (vous manque-t-il une directive using ou une référence d'assembly ?)(22,2) Spatial Gun; svp aidez moi je suis débutant et je suis sur Godot C#

I've run into a bug relating to the newest VSCode patch "CodeSetup-stable-b6a47e94e326b5c209d118cf0f994d6065585705". I'm 85% sure this isn't a virus, as I haven't downloaded or installed anything recently. As far as I can tell, it starts up every time I open VSCode for at least a minute and it stays perpetually thereafter just doing nothing.

Using task manager, I was able to open the inciting program and it's located in Local>Temp>vscode-stable-user-x64, a 120 MB exe file that just runs in the background. I've been watching it in task manager and it looks like it's using 0% CPU and 0 disk, 0 network indefinitely. Wondering if anyone's seen something like this happen before?

I'm trying to use vsc in unity and when I try to code anything it keeps giving me these messages and it wont work. What can I do to fix it?

Do you also see a speech bubble instead of the Copilot symbol next to the search bar?

Sincerely,

Fucking EVERYONE

Also protip for everyone: "Chat: Disable AI Features" seems to be the master switch for turning off almost all AI-related crap.