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vscode-profile-toolkit

Summary

A simple tool to manage .code-profile files, named vs-prof-tk.

VS Code has a profile system, to manage multiple configurations.

When you export an existing profile to disk, you get a .code-profile file (a

nested JSON file).

For now, the tool can do two things:

• extract, to unpack a .code-profile file into a specific folder,

• archive, to pack a profile folder into a .code-profile file.

I have multiple profiles, and I want to easily compare them and write my own

profiles by hand.

One day I might add a "diff" command to the tool to have a better view of the

differences of each profile, but for now here's my workflow:

• In VS Code, export your profiles somewhere on your filesystem (as

.code-profile files)

• Use vs-prof-tk extract to unpack the profiles in a folder

• Example: vs-prof-tk extract -i /work/Default.code-profile /work/extracted

• Edit the files as you want

• Recreate a .code-profile file using vs-prof-tk archive

• Example:

vs-prof-tk archive -i /work/extracted/Default /work/DefaultNew.code-profile

• Now you can import your new profile in VS Code using the "Import profile"

feature

You need a recent version of Go.

If you use nix, you can use the included shell.nix file.

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go build -o vs-prof-tk