Customisation

• Extensions
• Alabaster Theme
• Material icon pack
• FiraCode

Extensions

Extensions

• Recommendations
• Popular extensions
• Enable/disable extensions

Alabaster theme

• Minimal amount of highlighting
• Does not highlight standard language keywords (if, else, function etc.)
• Highlights comments
• No font variations (bold, italic)

Material Icon Theme

FiraCode

Text formatting

• Log File highlighter
• Text Alignment
• Readme preview
• Copying/moving lines
• Code formatting
• Trimming trailing spaces
• Selections
• Commenting out and back

Log file highlighter

Text Alignment

⌘ ⇧ P → Align

⌥ =

Readme preview

⌘ K, V

Copying lines

⌥ ⇧ ↓

⌥ ⇧ ↑

Moving lines

Code formatting

⌘ K, ⌘ F

Trimming white spaces

⌘ K, ⌘ X

Selections

⌘ D → ⌘ ⇧ L

Comments

⌘ /

Sensible to language/syntax

Productivity

• Command palette
• Quick navigation
• Refactoring, peek and references
• Lint
• Key bindings and Settings files
• CLI tool

Command palette

⌘ ⇧ P

Quick navigation

⌘ P

Peek

⌥ F12

Go to definition

Find all references

⇧ F12

Renaming

F2

Linting

• Markdownlint
• Ruby-linter
• Python
• Shellcheck

Linting

“Linting is the process of running a program that will analyse code for potential errors. ”

— Wikipedia

Markdownlint

Markdownlint

"markdownlint.config": {
"MD013": false,
"MD014": false,
"MD024": false,
"MD033": false,
"MD040": false,
"MD007": { "indent": 4 }
},
						

Settings

Settings

Snippets

• Snippets in marketplace
• Custom snippets

Snippets

Snippets

Integrated git

• Diffs
• Branches
• Staging and committing
• Merge conflicts

Diffs

Branches

Staging and committing

Merge conflicts

Git Lens

om-my-zsh

• Plugins
• Themes

om-my-zsh

• git - adds aliases
• brew - adds aliases
• copydir - copies current directory’s path to the clipboard
• z - tracks your most used directories, based on ‘frecency'.

  $ > z solution

• osx - see next slide

om-my-zsh

Aliases

Orion specific

alias rdep="rgrav deploy -R unison_frontend:0 -R unison_backend:0 -R unison_haproxy:0 -R connect:0 -p ec2"
alias rinv="rgrav invoke -p ec2"
						

$ > rdep

More examples

# Recursively delete `.DS_Store` files and Clean up LaunchServices to remove duplicates in the “Open With” menu
alias cleanup="/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user && killall Finder && find . -type f -name '*.DS_Store' -ls -delete"
# Get macOS Software Updates, and update installed Ruby gems, Homebrew and their installed packages
alias update='sudo softwareupdate -i -a; brew update; brew upgrade; brew cleanup; gem update; gem cleanup; npm update'
						

Aliases

To see your current aliases

$ > alias