Visual Studio Code

Introduction

Visual Studio Code (VS Code), is a source-code editor developed by Microsoft which provides features including support for debugging, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, code refactoring, and embedded version control with Git. Users can change the theme, keyboard shortcuts, preferences, and install extensions that add functionality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_Code

Code Snippets

Snippets in Visual Studio Code

Use built-in snippets (templates) or create custom ones to streamline your coding process. To use a code snippet, simply type a snippet’s prefix (short code) and press Tab or Enter to expand it into the full code template.

Basic Editing

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/codebasics

Install VS Code in Ubuntu

• See VS Code in Linux

Extensions

Remote- SSH Extension

• The Remote - SSH extension lets you use any remote machine with a SSH server as your development environment. This can greatly simplify development and troubleshooting in a wide variety of situatio
  • see Remote Development in VS Code using SSH

ROS Snippets

• ROS Snippets is a Visual Code extension with a collection of ROS (Robot Operating System) snippets for roscpp, rospy, urdf, xacro, launch files.
  • https://github.com/SweiLz/ROS-Snippets