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What's an awesome VS Code extension you recently installed?

I just came across a simple yet awesome VS Code extension tonight care of Elijah Manor.

Basically it dims code that currently isn't selected. Here it is in action.

So what's an awesome VS Code extension you recently installed? 👨‍💻

P.S.: It's a bit out of date, but here's my VS Code setup for those interested.

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Kostia Palchyk

Vim
github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim

tutorial1

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Not recently though, been using it for years 🙂

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Vuong

My favourite extensions:
Settings Sync
Code Runner
Bitbucket and Jira (Official)
Path Intellisense
GitLens

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Jakub Sarnowski

Remote Development!

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Alex Patterson

Git Graph, now I don't have to jump into git kracken when things get dicey

marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

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Nick Taylor

Thanks for sharing! Didn’t know about this one. I usually use glog in zsh, or fork for a GUI.

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Ash Grennan

Better Comments is fantastic for making particular comments more apparent.

Also Bracket Pair Colorizer, couldn't live without it.

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Brett

For when you need it, I just installed SFTP and it works great!

marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

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Cees Timmerman

My current extensions according to "code --list-extensions":

CoenraadS.bracket-pair-colorizer-2
cssho.vscode-svgviewer
eamodio.gitlens
esbenp.prettier-vscode
Gruntfuggly.todo-tree
HookyQR.beautify
LaurentTreguier.vscode-simple-icons
marcostazi.VS-code-vagrantfile
mechatroner.rainbow-csv
ms-python.python
msjsdiag.debugger-for-chrome
oderwat.indent-rainbow
richie5um2.vscode-sort-json
sysoev.language-stylus
VisualStudioExptTeam.vscodeintellicode
voldemortensen.rainbow-tags

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Nick Taylor

Thanks for sharing!

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Adam Braun • Edited

This isn't really an extension, but I use it very often.
I was looking for something equivalent to Sublime's panel focus, and there's a key map option, but it's not set to any key by default:
View: Maximize Editor Group and Hide Side Bar (shift + alt + enter)
View: Reset Editor Group Sizes (ctrl + shift + alt + enter)

Maximized editor group

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Omar Bahareth • Edited

Read Time

It shows an estimate for how long it takes to read your Markdown.

EDIT
Picture is taken from this tweet (I hope that's ok)
mobile.twitter.com/John_Papa/statu...

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Romulo G Rodrigues

I was amazed by the VSCode Python Debugger, you can run Python scripts more easily with breakpoints, variable analysis and a huge control and great data visualization, it is just too good to be ignored.