I regularly use both IntelliJ IDEA and Visual Studio Code as my environments for developing. But like all tools, we often need to personalise them to our liking, to feel at ease, or to be more productive. As we read code more than we write, there are certain settings in your favorite editor to improve your reading experience. Today, I’ll share of the tweaks I’ve made to my VS Code settings.

You can edit some of the settings by opening the UI of the settings dialog box, but you can also edit the JSON file in which those settings are saved. On a Mac, for example, the settings.json file is stored in ~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/.