Is there any way to hack visual studio so that it displays the line numbers in smaller font size like the way Notepad++ does? I'm using Consolas at size 12 and the line numbers just look so ugly.
Thanks.
Tools > Options... > Environment Fonts and Colors > Display Items > Line Numbers
You should be able to mess with fonts and sizes there.
EDIT for the people whose hands need to be held:
Follow this click path after you open Visual Studio 2008 (most likely by double-clicking on its icon):
Tools > Options... > Environment Fonts and Colors
"Tools" is in the menu bar at the top of the screen, and is most likely the fourth option from the right. Once you click on "Tools" a menu should come down, and you should click the "Options..." option, which is the very very last one. A new window will pop up with some junk on the right and some more things to click on on the left. Those things on the left determine what options you'll be setting on the right. Click the "Environment Fonts and Colors" option, which should be the second option.
Then, make sure "Show Settings For:" is set to "Text Editor". Click on "Line Numbers" in the listbox that says "Display Items". It is located underneath the "Font (bold type indicates fixed-width fonts):" dropdown box (that textbox with the arrow on the right side that when you click it, a whole bunch of options show up). It should be the 5th option in the "Display Items" box. After you do this, you can adjust your font, font size, color, whatever your little heart desires.
Once you're done, make sure to hit the "OK" button in the lower right corner of the window where you just made all your adjustments. Your new settings should be reflected!
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Even though Jason is correct in his directions, he even answered your question in a round about way.
all text editor font is the same
when you have changed one of the font properties.
So in short. No you can not adjust individual fonts for items in the actual text editor, though you can adjust almost everything else through the Option dialog.
Hope this helps.
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Is there a way, either built-in or by third-party extension, to disable triple-click from selecting the entire line while in a text editor? Either my mouse is too sensitive, or I'm inadvertently doing it, but more often than not, clicking a word, then copy / pasting it results in pasting of the entire line -- not my intention and very annoying. Ideally, it could be disabled (aka any click more than 1 just selects the word the cursor is over)
As already stated in the comments the problem is most likely that the word highlighting color is so similar to the color of selected text. So seems like we sometimes deselect a word instead of selecting it. And without a selection Ctrl-C copies the whole line. I had the same issue with JetBrains WebStorm. In Visual Studio for me it was ReSharper.
Changing the color helps. Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Fonts and Colors -> "ReSharper Usage of element under cursor". I made that darker such that selected text is clearly distinguishable.
In the VSCode editor when you pull the scroll bar down to the bottom of the file, all you see is a blank page, since the text has scrolled up past the top of the text editor window. This makes scrolling to the bottom difficult because you can't just pull the scroll bar quickly all the way down but have to carefully position the cursor so you can still see your code.
Very similar to How to make Visual Studio editor stop scrolling past bottom of a file?, but comments have pointed out that question/answer is for Visual Studio. This answer is for VSCode on the macOS and Windows.
The correct answer is seen here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/40588828/1189470
There is a configuration option provided in VSCode for the functionality you specified. To enable it, go to File -> Preferences -> user settings
On the right side of the editor in settings.json paste the below line at the bottom (before closing bracket), save and close.
"editor.scrollBeyondLastLine": false
This will prevent the editor from scrolling beyond the last line.
This is now exposed as a simple checkbox labeled "Editor: Scroll Beyond Last Line" in File/Apple -> Preferences.
If just for readability you would like some space at the bottom of the file - a configurable amount - try this setting as of v1.43:
editor.padding.bottom in pixels
Editor> Padding: Bottom
Controls the amount of space between the bottom edge of the editor and
the last line.
and/or
editor.padding.top // but this isn't sticky in the sense that you can scroll right past the padding top and it is gone. It doesn't stay.
I am unable to perform multi-file text search and replace (in Visual Studio).
In the past, when I opened the "Replace in Files" dialog, there were 4 buttons in the lower right. One of the bottom two buttons allowed me to "Replace All".
The two lower buttons (including "Replace All") are no longer present.
I believe this occurred after I changed some Windows settings so that I could use menus without the Magnifier.
It is not just a matter of the buttons being off-screen because the window is too large (although it is too large - they would be off-screen, if they were present).
I can drag the window and see the bottom, even though the top is then off-screen (I use AltWindowDrag, allowing me to hold the ALT key, and drag by any part of the window, not just the title bar).
The two lower buttons are not present. I'm unable to resize the window - when I try, nothing happens, or the window repositions so that I can see the title bar, but can no longer see the bottom.
The two buttons that are still present (Find Next and Replace) don't have keyboard shortcuts, so I presume that Replace All doesn't either. Nor can I select either of those two buttons using Tab, so probably can't select an "invisible" "Replace All" button that way.
Any help appreciated.
You can use Find and Replace by pressing Ctrl+H and to Replace All just use Alt+A.
I have a blue box and a green line next to line numbers in studio. What are these and how can I get rid of them?
Blue box on the left is a bookmark. To toggle (turn on and off) a bookmark, place a cursor on the line and press Ctrl+F2 (or in menu Edit > Bookmarks > Toggle Bookmark). Bookmarks are useful tool. With F2 you can quickly jump to the next one.
Green bar (also yellow, and also orange in VS2010) is visual indicator that that line has been changed. More info here. The feature is useful, and you get used to it after a while, and think nothing of it. If you want to disable this feature go to menu Tools > Options > Text Editor > General and uncheck "Track changes".
I am using visual studios 2008. My laptop has the max screen res of 1366x768.
What can i do to get more reading space? i was thinking of making the font smaller but it would be more helpful if i can make everything smaller (toolbar icons, text, etc)
The only improvement i done so far was remove a bunch of things under the toolbar so i have only one line. Actually for this project i remove the standard bar so i have have the solution and text directly under the menu with no toolbar. What else can i do to maximize reading space.
Tools > Options > Environment > General > Uncheck "Show status bar"
Tools > Options > Text Editor > All Languages > Uncheck "Navigation bar"
Install the "Hide Main Menu" extension available here.
Enable Auto-hide the taskbar in your Windows Taskbar properties.
That should get you at least 5-7 more lines.
Dual screens. The more pixels the better. I like 1920x1280 extended to across a matched monitor with vertically split tabs.
Probably not the answer you are looking for, but really, it HELPS A LOT.
Ok ok:
Try Lucida Console as a font - it's readable at 8pt - and fixed width!
Hit Alt+Shift+Enter to get into Full Screen mode.
Float all your "helper" windows and use Ctrl+Tab to get to them. (Click using mouse)
Pin your Windows Task Bar to the left or right of your screen to give more vertical reading space.
What I do is unpin all the various tool windows and views. Unpin the Solution Explorer, Properties viewer, Output etc. and the Toolbar. This leaves you with just the coding window and small bars around that allow you to hover over the edges of the window and see everything you just unpinned.
set the Solution explorer on the right to Auto-Hide, close the error window when possible (as in when you're not fixing errors), and try and drop the number of toolbars vertically to 1. You can also change the size of the text down by going to Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts and colors but i wouldn't shrink the text unless you have good vision. I recommend Consolas 12 Point for your code; it's a bit big but very nice looking!
I got rid of the toolbars altogether and made things like the Solution Explorer autohide. I came to the realisation that the only toolbar button I ever used was a custom tool one I'd put there (I use the menu for that now). I'm running at 1920x1200 so real estate wasnt an issue - I just wanted less visual distractions. Just me and the code.