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Will Stone
Will Stone

Reputation: 4835

How to symlink a theme to VSCode's extensions directory

I am making a theme for VSCode but I'd rather not have to constantly clone my theme's repo to the ~/.vscode/extensions/ directory. I've tried:

ln -s /path/to/my/repo/theme ~/.vscode/extensions/theme

but this doesn't work; VSCode doesn't pick-up on the theme. Any ideas?

My main use case for this, is that I'm trying to make a mono-repo for the theme so that it can have several products within the same repo. This means I want the VSCode theme in a vscode sub directory, and Code can't pick up deeply nested theme files without having the root-level package.json having reference to the sub-directory which destroys the point of having a mono-repo.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 833

Answers (1)

Will Stone
Will Stone

Reputation: 4835

Seems to be working now, I did:

ln -s ~/path/to/theme/ ~/.vscode/extensions/themeName

Maybe it was the missing forward-slash on the source path.

Upvotes: 1

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