Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Why I switched from Sublime to VSCode?
• Some important commands
  • Editor
  • Others
• Some General Issues & Its Fix
  • Failure to connect to VS Code Server
  • failed to connect to the remote extension host server (error websocket close with status code 1006)
• Useful script:

Introduction

Why I switched from Sublime to VSCode?

Some important commands

Editor

1. Select the word where the cursor is: CMD + D
2. Select all occurrences of find match: CMD + SHIFT + L
3. Select all text within the brackets: CTRL + SHIFT + RIGHT ARROW

Others

1. Quick Open: CMD + P 1.

Some General Issues & Its Fix

Failure to connect to VS Code Server

Fix: Remove the /home/<USER>/.vscode-server folder and retry. Then it should work.

Reference: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/3575#issuecomment-690826257

failed to connect to the remote extension host server (error websocket close with status code 1006)

Fix:

• In the .ssh/config file on the REMOTE host add following lines:

  AllowAgentForwarding yes
  AllowTcpForwarding yes
  

Reference: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/5352#issuecomment-913228691

Useful script:

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sheridan-Tech/Update_VScode/master/update_vscode.sh
  • Grabbed from here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/2828#issuecomment-675196078