zdenyhraz / vscode-colorful-env

Visual Studio / Visual Studio Code dark but colorful settings

Visual Studio & Visual Studio Code colorful environment

VS & VSCode dark but colorful settings. Distinguishes functions, member functions, static functions, local variables, member variables, static variables, global variables, macros, preprocessor directives, function parameters, operators, overloaded operators, enums, lambdas, ...

Visual Studio Code Theme

• Install vscode theme https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tanmay.discord-theme
• Download cascadia code font from https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code/releases
• Update your settings.json from VisualStudioCode/settings.json - mainly the following fields
  • workbench.colorTheme
  • workbench.colorCustomizations
  • editor.fontFamily
  • editor.semanticTokenColorCustomizations
  • editor.tokenColorCustomizations

Linux Terminal Theme

• sudo apt-get install zsh
• sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
• Install fonts & follow instructions for Visual Studio Code (& Windows Terminal): https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k#meslo-nerd-font-patched-for-powerlevel10k Fonts -> Manual font installation
• git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/themes/powerlevel10k
• add ZSH_THEME="powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k" to ~/.zshrc
• p10k configure
• add plugins=(git zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting) to ~/.zshrc
• git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting
• git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

Linux C++ dev environment

• sudo apt update
• sudo apt -y upgrade
• sudo apt -y install build-essential
• sudo apt-get install gdb
• sudo apt -y install clang-format
• sudo apt-get install -y ninja-build
• install CMake via https://apt.kitware.com/
• git config --global user.email "[e-mail]"
• git config --global user.name "xxxx"
• ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "[e-mail]"
• (Qt) sudo apt-get install qt5-default

Visual Studio Theme

• Install the Color Theme Editor/Designer extension
  • Visual Studio 2017: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=VisualStudioPlatformTeam.VisualStudio2017ColorThemeEditor
  • Visual Studio 2019: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-madsk.ColorThemeDesigner
  • Visual Studio 2022: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=idex.colorthemedesigner2022
• VisualStudio > Tools > Customize Colors > Import Theme > select the theme VisualStudio/dark_zdeny.vstheme

Windows Terminal Theme

• install Windows Terminal https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-terminal/9n0dx20hk701
• use WindowsTerminal/settings.json settings

Windows C++ dev environment

• install WSL 2 via elevated powershell wsl --install -d Ubuntu
• install vscode WSL extension
• follow steps in Linux C++ dev environment