Visual Studio Code has a secret Zen mode

Posted by richardanaya on Thursday October 20, 2022 @06:08PM
from the code.visualstudio.com dept.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/userinterface#_zen-mode

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Re:Visual Studio Code has a secret Zen mode by yshavit on Thursday October 20, 2022 @06:38PM (#33281733)

For those who don't know, IntelliJ IDEA also has this. (I'm not affiliated with them at all, but I do love their IDEs.)

Personally, I tried it once and was too weirded out — I've lived with the side panels for so long that it feels wrong without them there, minimized and providing a nice little frame for my thoughts.

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Re:Visual Studio Code has a secret Zen mode by Hardwired8976 on Thursday October 20, 2022 @06:42PM (#33281768)

In what way is this secret? It’s in the View section and not really hidden imo.

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Re:Visual Studio Code has a secret Zen mode by sizzzzlerz on Thursday October 20, 2022 @07:04PM (#33281978)

Not displaying line numbers makes it a non-starter for me.

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Re:Visual Studio Code has a secret Zen mode by sfpotter on Thursday October 20, 2022 @07:32PM (#33282254)

I don’t get it. Why would you use this instead of Emacs? Still such poor use of screen real estate. In Emacs I’m in “zen mode” all the time…

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