With support for ASP.NET Core in Visual Studio for Mac, you are empowered to create beautiful, modern web applications. Craft the front-end with the same web editor experience you know and love from Visual Studio and Windows and publish to the cloud directly from the IDE. Developer Community for Visual Studio Product family. Reported by Adam Hill Sep 06 at 11:38 PM visual studio for mac ide theming. Using Vibrant Ink from StudioStyle.es in VSM does not look like VS Windows.
The column ruler defaults to the 80th character which is way too small. How do I adjust this? (I circled it in red below)
I tried looking for extensions, but according to this post I can't install things like Productivity Power Tools that give me the option to adjust this.
Is there a plist file somewhere that I can edit?
This issue is super frustrating to me, so any help is greatly appreciated.
2 Answers
You can configure this in the preferences dialog. Select Source Code - Code Formatting. Then select the type of file you want to configure. Most code formatting styles inherit from Text file so you may just want to select that.
Then change the Desired file width setting. By default it is 80.
Matt WardMatt WardI have checked all settings in Visual Studio 2017 for Mac and I don't find any settings could change the column ruler's size. And I also searching in Visual Studio -> Extensions in Visual Studio for Mac, there also doesn't have such extension could adjust the column ruler.
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So I submit this requirement to Visual Studio for Mac User Voice site. You could vote it and add comments from below link.
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I am trying to tweak my IDE settings for VS2017 Community Mac. I have download a theme and everything looks good except for the fact that the line numbers & column they are in are white (see below). Is there a way to change this?
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You did not specify what type of theme you are using (.json, .vssettings, textmate(?)), so add/update your theme with following and adjust the colors to your preference: