The #Gremlins extension for #VSCode now allows you to hide the gremlin icon from the gutter, so that legitimate characters are less distracting.
Thanks @kswedberg for the great contribution! 🙏
Install from https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nhoizey.gremlins
Did @StepsizeHQ use a screenshot of my own Gremlins extension for #VSCode to illustrate a similar extension but made for JetBrains?
Looks like he did… 😅
Great news, #VSCode now highlights "all uncommon invisible characters in source code"! 🎉
This means the Gremlins extension should remove these characters, but I think it is still useful for some others.
Wait, has one of my pet projects just been promoted in a @smashingmag article? 😲😍
✨ New: Useful Visual Studio Code Extensions For Front-End Developers.
– auto log messages
– auto code formatting
– file utils
– file labels
– Vue/React code snippets
– highlight brackets/tags
– highlight indents/workspaces
– onboarding
– remote SSH
www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/useful-vs-code-extensions-web-developers/
Look for #Gremlins… Yes, really.
Gremlins tracker for #VSCode v0.26.0 is there!
You can now define gremlins settings per language! 🎉
For example, a right double quotation mark (”, unicode U+201d) can be perfectly acceptable in Markdown, but weird in another format…
Gremlins tracker for #VSCode v0.25.0 is there!
You can now configure a character as perfectly acceptable, it will not show a gremlin anymore. 👻
Settings also now have IntelliSense for the available values! 🎉
