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Arranging editor windows - Visual Studio Code Tutorial
From the course: Learning Visual Studio Code
Arranging editor windows
To efficiently write and edit code, you need to visually layout your environment to support the task you're working on. Visual Studio Code enables a near limitless number of ways to arrange its different components. Let's look at a few of the most common ones. I think the best way to get a sense of what's possible is to open the View menu and select the "Appearance" submenu. There's lots to explore here, but I'll quickly show you just a couple of the options available. If you're coming to VS Code from another editor that shows the files in your project on the right side of the screen, you might prefer that arrangement here as well. You can easily change that by selecting "Move Primary Side Bar Right." The activity bar is associated with the primary sidebar, so it moves to the right side of the screen. The different items on the activity bar will now open there. There are lots of different ways to make many of these changes. For instance, you can also move the primary sidebar by…
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