Setting up VS code

Once your software is installed and working from the command line, you can now push on to get VSC working well with your terminal environment.

VSC offers a bunch of command line options. Below are commands that you can paste into your shell and watch what happens.

code --list-extensions

These are the extensions that we need for our work.

code --install-extension quarto.quarto
code --install-extension ms-python.python
code --install-extension ms-python.python
code --install-extension ms-toolsai.jupyter
code --install-extension mtxr.sqltools
code --install-extension mtxr.sqltools-driver-mysql

Once the extensions are installed, we need to tune the settings to make VSC work for us.

The “Setting” menu can be accessed from the bottom left of the screen, or directly by pressing ctrl-, (control-comma) or on Mac (command-comma)

Once the little command prompt line opens up, search for the appropriate setting by entering in the keywords provided below. Then make the appropriate change. I believe that it sticks when you leave the cell - I haven’t seen a “save” button.

Paste the keywords below into a VSC setting search.

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Paste the keywords below into a VSC setting search.

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