Vertical rulers in Visual Studio Code

Question

How can vertical rulers  note the plural  be configured in Visual Studio Code   In Sublime Text 2 I can do    rulers    72  80  100  120    How does this work in Visual Studio    editor ruler   80   produces only one vertical ruler

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Visual Studio Code 0 10 10 introduced this feature  To configure it  go to menu File  rarr  Preferences  rarr  Settings and add this to to your user or workspace settings    editor rulers    80 120    The color of the rulers can be customized like this    workbench colorCustomizations          editorRuler foreground     ff4081

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Visual Studio Code  Version 1 14 2  1 14 2    Press Shift   Command   P to open panel   For non-macOS users  press Ctrl P  Enter  settings json  to open setting files  At default setting  you can see this      Columns at which to show vertical rulers  editor rulers         This means the empty array won t show the vertical rulers  At right window  user setting   add the following    editor rulers    140    Save the file  and you will see the rulers

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With Visual Studio Code 1 27 2    When I go to File   Preference   Settings  I get the following tab       I type rulers in Search settings and I get the following list of settings       Clicking on the first Edit in settings json  I can edit the user settings       Clicking on the pen icon that appears to the left of the setting in Default user settings I can copy it on the user settings and edit it   With Visual Studio Code 1 38 1  the screenshot shown on the third point changes to the following one     The panel for selecting the default user setting values isn t shown anymore

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Combining the answers of kiamlaluno and Mark  along with formatOnSave to autointent code for Python          editor formatOnSave   true       editor autoIndent    advanced        editor detectIndentation   true       files insertFinalNewline   true       files trimTrailingWhitespace   true       editor formatOnPaste   true       editor multiCursorModifier    ctrlCmd        editor snippetSuggestions    top        editor rulers                            column   79               color     424142                     100      lt - a ruler in the default color or as customized at column 0                        column   120               color     ff0000

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In addition to global  editor rulers  setting  it s also possible to set this on a per-language level   For example  style guides for Python projects often specify either 79 or 120 characters vs  Git commit messages should be no longer than 50 characters   So in your settings json  you d put     git-commit      editor rulers    50      python           editor rulers             79          120

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In v1 43 is the ability to separately color the vertical rulers  See issue Support multiple rulers with different colors  -  in settings json    quot editor rulers quot              quot column quot   80       quot color quot    quot  ff00FF quot         100       lt - a ruler in the default color or as customized  with  quot editorRuler foreground quot   at column 100          quot column quot   120       quot color quot    quot  ff0000 quot

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