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Split JSON settings editor discussion issue

See original GitHub issue

So as you can see here:

when I open my settings.json file I don’t have it split up. Before updating whenever I opened settings.json I had all the settings on the left hand side and those changed by me on the right hand side. Now I only have the thing, which was previously on the right.

VSCode Version: 1.31.0
OS Version: Windows 10

Steps to Reproduce:

Open settings
Click {} to open settings.json

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Reactions:13
Comments:13 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

20reactions

johnnytempcommented, Feb 12, 2019

Thanks @gjsjohnmurray. Really miss the old behavior which show side-by-side and make searching settings faster. Wish it won’t be removed in future. (Please give some thumbs up if you also like the old behavior)

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gjsjohnmurraycommented, Feb 11, 2019

Duplicate of #68301 and several others.

Intentional change, described in the 1.31 “What’s New?” at https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_31#_use-simple-text-editor-for-editing-settings-as-json which also describes how to reinstate old behaviour.

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