#WINDOWS SAVE A THEME INSTALL#
#WINDOWS SAVE A THEME GENERATOR#
#WINDOWS SAVE A THEME UPDATE#
#WINDOWS SAVE A THEME FULL#

This page is extremely helpful in understanding some of the base things you need to configure.

Here are the two ways I found to figure out the rest of the scopes: the file viewer, the terminal, and the search boxes). There are a lot of things in the editor you canвЂ™t target because VS Code will interpret that as you trying to drive the rest of the editor (i.e. In there type, вЂњDeveloper: Inspect TM ScopesвЂќ and youвЂ™ll see a prompt come up that allows you to look through all the tags and attributes: it will tell you their color, their font styles, and how you need to target it. OK, now that you have the other window open, hit Command + Shift + P to get the command explorer. So, how do we test it out? When you open the directory with your theme, you can press fn + f5 on Mac (or just f5 on Windows) and a new window immediately pops open where you can test your theme! YouвЂ™ll see in the original theme window that you now have a little control panel where you can reload, pause, and stop.

We have our base theme and we have some concepts for the palette. More details about themes in general are here.

#WINDOWS SAVE A THEME FULL#

The full scoop and all the details are here. It will set you up with a base theme to start skinning your color preferences.

Is this theme dark, light, or high contrast?.

What name should be shown to the user? (I used the same as the extension name.).

WhatвЂ™s the publisherвЂ™s name? (See earlier instructions.).

#WINDOWS SAVE A THEME UPDATE#

DonвЂ™t worry, you can update this in your package.json in the future.)

What is the the description? (I just put something silly in initially.

What is the the identifier? (I just went with the name, thatвЂ™s probably typical.).

Next, youвЂ™ll have to answer a few other questions, including: When selecting this, it asks if this is a new theme or if we want to import from an existing one. Note also that this is how youвЂ™d want to make any other extension. Note that IвЂ™ve used the arrows here to navigate to the вЂњNew Color ThemeвЂќ option. You will be prompted by a screen that looks like this: You can then execute this command to kick off your theme: yo code

#WINDOWS SAVE A THEME GENERATOR#

This makes the generator globally available on your machine (meaning you can now create a theme in any directory).

#WINDOWS SAVE A THEME INSTALL#

Now that youвЂ™ve got that under your belt, here are the steps you need to start work.ДЇirst, you need to run: npm install -g yo generator-code I know it looks like a lot, but it takes anywhere from 5-10 minutes, and then youвЂ™ll never have to do it again, for any extension you create. All of the instructions to do so are here. Fire It UpД«efore you do anything, youвЂ™re going to install vsce (short for Visual Studio Code Extensions) and establish yourself as a publisher. WeвЂ™ll talk first about the general process for creating a theme in case youвЂ™d like to create one of your own, and then weвЂ™ll dive into some of the research and testing that went into mine in particular to peek into the process.

I decided it was time to craft my own theme. I had some preferences set for the theme I had been using and, though they all worked well for daytime or plane rides, I always felt like something was missing for late night coding sessions. I know itвЂ™s not necessarily healthy to code like this, but itвЂ™s literally the time IвЂ™m most productive: there are minimal distractions, IвЂ™m not dealing with work stuff, family stuff, friend stuff, or puppy stuff. Everyone in my house was sleeping and so, as usual, the only light was the glow of my screen. I was coding very late the one night, well into the small hours of the morning. ItвЂ™s been an item on my bucket list to create my own theme. There are literally thousands of themes out there, and for good reason: a thing of beauty and enhancement to productivity for one can be a hindrance to another. Everyone has special and perhaps, particular, tastes when it comes to their code editor.

Windows save a theme