The most recent launch of Microsoft’s Visible Studio Code editor options extra audio cues, customizable Exercise Bar positioning, and coding enhancements to the Python extension.

VS Code 1.84, often known as the October 2023 launch, was revealed November 1. It may be downloaded for Home windows, Linux, or Mac on the Visible Studio Code web site. Highlighted on this launch are extra audio cues for accessibility. When audioCues.clear is enabled, a sound signifies that the terminal, a notification, or the chat responses have been cleared. For recordsdata and notebooks, audioCues.save and audioCues.format could be set to play on person gesture or all the time for every occasion. When disabled, an ARIA (Accessible Wealthy Web Utility) alert is used as a substitute and could be personalized with accessibility.alert.format and accessibility.alert.save.

Additionally in Model 1.84, Exercise Bar customizability means builders now can transfer the bar to the highest of the Aspect Bar. When the Exercise Bar is positioned on the highest, buttons for Accounts and Handle are moved to the Title Bar to the far proper. That is supported solely when the customized Title Bar is enabled. Customers additionally now are in a position to cover editor Tabs by setting workbench.editor.showTabs to none. Different showTabs choices are a number of (default) and single to indicate a single editor Tab for the lively editor. A brand new View.Toggle Maximize Editor Group (Ctrl+Ok Ctrl+M) command maximizes an editor group. All different teams will likely be hidden and a button is added to the Tab bar, letting the person restore the earlier format. If the setting workbench.editor.doubleClickTabToToggleEditorGroupSize is about to maximize, customers can double-click an editor Tab to maximise and unmaximize the editor group.

VS Code 1.84 follows final month’s VS Code 1.83 launch, which emphasised command discovery. Additionally in VS Code 1.84 :

• The Python extension has improved the habits of sending strains to the Python REPL (Shift-Enter) when no code has been chosen to run. Beforehand, when builders positioned the cursor on a line of Python code and pressed Shift-Enter, the extension would ship the precise line content material to the REPL, even when it might fail. A brand new experimental Sensible Ship function has the extension ship the smallest block of runnable code surrounding the cursor place to the REPL for execution. This ensures that solely full and executable sections of code are despatched to the REPL. The cursor will likely be moved to the following executable line to supply a easy expertise when executing a number of chunks iteratively. At the moment, this habits is behind an experiment however is predicted to be the default sooner or later. To strive it, builders can add the next Consumer setting: “python.experiments.Optinto:.
• Home windows 32-bit help has ended. Builders ought to replace to the 64-bit model of VS Code.
• The Gradle for Java extension has been improved, with a prereleased model providing higher help for constructing Gradle initiatives because of the adoption of the Construct Server Protocol (BSP), which gives an abstraction layer between improvement environments and construct instruments akin to Gradle. The Extension Pack for Java additionally is required to check out Gradle help.
• A preview of the GitHub Copilot Chat extension’s inline chat now could make progressive textual content edits and “kind” on the charge at which a response is being obtained.