How to export settings

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How is it possible to export all Visual Studio Code settings and plugins and import them to another machine

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I m preferred my own way to synchronize all Visual Studio Code extensions between laptops  using  dotfiles and small script to perform updates automatically  This way helps me every time when I want to install all extensions I have without any single mouse activity in Visual Studio Code after installing  via Homebrew   So I just write each new added extension to  txt file stored at my  dotfiles folder  After that I pull master branch on another laptop to get up-to-date file with all extensions  Using the script  which Big Rich had written before  with one more change  I can totally synchronise all extensions almost automatically  Script cat dart-extensions txt   xargs -L 1 code --install-extension  And also there is one more way to automate that process  Here you can add a script which looks up a Visual Studio Code extension in realtime and each time when you take a diff between the code --list-extensions command and your  txt file in  dotfiles  you can easily update your file and push it to your remote repository

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With the current version of Visual Studio Code as of this writing  1 22 1   you can find your settings in     config Code User on Linux  in my case  an  Ubuntu derivative  C  Users username AppData Roaming Code User on Windows 10   Library Application Support Code User  on Mac OS X  thank you  Christophe De Troyer   The files are settings json and keybindings json  Simply copy them to the target machine  Your extensions are in     vscode extensions on Linux and Mac OS X C  Users username  vscode extensions on Windows 10  e g   essentially the same place   Alternately  just go to the Extensions  show installed extensions  and install those on your target installation  For me  copying the extensions worked just fine  but it may be extension-specific  particularly if moving between platforms  depending on what the extension does

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Your user settings are in   Library Application  Support Code User   If you re not concerned about syncing and it s a one time thing  you can just copy the files keybindings json and settings json to the corresponding folder on your new machine   Your extensions are in the    vscode folder  Most extensions aren t using any native bindings and they should be working properly when copied over   You can manually re-install those who do not

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Often there are questions about the java settings in vsCode   This is a big question and can involve advanced user knowledge to accmplish   But there is simple way to get the existing java settings from vsCode and copy these setting for use on another PC   This post is using recent versions of vsCode and JDK in mid-December 2020  There are several screen shots  below  that accompany this post which should provide enough information for the visual learners  First things first  open vsCode and either open an existing java folder-file or create a new java file in vsCode   Then look at the lower right corner of vsCode  on the blue command bar    The vsCode should be displaying an icon showing the version of the Java Standard Edition   Java SE   being used   The version being on this PC today is JavaSE-15    link 1  Click on that icon  JAVASE-15  which then opens a new window named  quot java configuration runtimes quot   There should be two tabs below this name  User and Workspace   Below these tabs is a link named   quot Edit in settings json quot    Click on that link    link 2  Two json files should then open  Default settings and settings json   This post only focuses on the  quot settings json quot  file    The settings json file shows various settings used for coding different programming languages  Python  R  and java    Near the bottom of the settings json file shows the settings this User uses in vsCode for programming java  These java settings are the settings that can be  quot backed up quot  - meaning these settings get copied and pasted to another PC for creating a java programming environment similar to the java programming environment on this PC    link 3  link 1 link 2 link 3

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Similar to the answer given by Big Rich you can do the following    code --list-extensions   xargs -L 1 echo code --install-extension  This will list out your extensions with the command to install them so you can just copy and paste the entire output into your other machine  Example  code --install-extension EditorConfig EditorConfig code --install-extension aaron-bond better-comments code --install-extension christian-kohler npm-intellisense code --install-extension christian-kohler path-intellisense code --install-extension CoenraadS bracket-pair-colorizer  It is taken from the answer given here  Note  Make sure you have added VS Code to your path beforehand   On mac you can do the following   Launch Visual Studio Code Open the Command Palette          P  and type  shell command  to find the Shell Command  Install  code  command in PATH command

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You can now sync all your settings across devices with VSCode s built-in Settings Sync  It s found under Code  gt  Preferences  gt  Turn on Settings Sync    Read more about it in the official docs here

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I ve made a Python script for exporting Visual Studio Code settings into a single ZIP file  https   gist github com wonderbeyond 661c686b64cb0cabb77a43b49b16b26e You can upload the ZIP file to external storage    vsc-settings py export Exporting vsc settings  created a temporary dump dir  tmp tmpf88wo142 generating extensions list copying  home wonder  config Code User settings json copying  home wonder  config Code User keybindings json copying  home wonder  config Code User projects json copying  home wonder  config Code User snippets   adding  snippets   stored 0     adding  snippets go json  deflated 56     adding  projects json  deflated 67     adding  extensions txt  deflated 40     adding  keybindings json  deflated 81     adding  settings json  deflated 59   VSC settings exported into  home wonder vsc-settings-2019-02-25-171337 zip    unzip -l  home wonder vsc-settings-2019-02-25-171337 zip Archive    home wonder vsc-settings-2019-02-25-171337 zip   Length      Date    Time    Name ---------  ---------- -----   ----         0  2019-02-25 17 13   snippets        942  2019-02-25 17 13   snippets go json       519  2019-02-25 17 13   projects json       471  2019-02-25 17 13   extensions txt      2429  2019-02-25 17 13   keybindings json      2224  2019-02-25 17 13   settings json ---------                     -------      6585                     6 files   PS  You may implement the vsc-settings py import subcommand for me

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Enable portable mode  https   code visualstudio com docs editor portable Summary  Portable Mode instructs VSC to store all its configuration and plugins in a specific directory  called data  in Windows and Linux and code-portable-data in MacOS   At any time you could copy the data directory and copy it on another installation

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For posterity  this post mentions   in the latest release of Visual Studio Code  May 2016  it is now possible to list the installed extension in the command line  code --list-extensions  On Mac  execute something like   quot  Applications Visual Studio Code app  Contents Resources app bin code quot  --list-extensions  To install  use  --install-extension  lt ext gt    see  code --help

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There is an extension for Visual Studio Code  called Settings Sync  It synchronises your settings by gist  Gist by GitHub   It works the same as the Atom io extension called settings-sync  UPDATE  This feature is now build in VS Code  it is worth to switch to official feature   https   stackoverflow com a 64035356 2029818   You can now sync all your settings across devices with VSCode s built-in Settings Sync  It s found under Code  gt  Preferences  gt  Turn on Settings Sync

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