Is it possible to customize context menu in Visual Studio Code ?
Currently it looks like this.
I need to add two more menu options to this.
Something like "Go Back" and "Go Forward".
Can this be done ?
For those who don't know, the context menu is the little menu that opens when you click with the right button of the mouse on some empty space of the folder.
To do this, select the form in Visual Studio and scroll through the properties in the Properties panel until you find the ContextMenuStrip property. Click on the down arrow in the value field and select TextBoxMenu to associate this menu with the form.
Select File > Preferences > Settings (or press Ctrl+,) to edit the user settings. json file. To edit workspace settings, select the WORKSPACE SETTINGS tab to edit the workspace settings.
Yes, you can can add menu items to the context menu by creating a personal extension for your own use. In your extension, in package.json
, add a contributes.menus
section. The text editor context menu is called editor/context
.
(If you haven't developed an extension before, start with Microsoft's Your First Extension tutorial.)
It may help to look at another extension that adds items to the context menu. One (of many) extension that does this is Bookmarks, which adds three context menu entries. The relevant parts of its package.json
are:
{
"name": "Bookmarks",
...
"contributes": {
...
"menus": {
...
"editor/context": [
{
"command": "bookmarks.toggle",
"group": "bookmarks",
"when": "editorTextFocus && config.bookmarks.showCommandsInContextMenu"
},
{
"command": "bookmarks.jumpToNext",
"group": "bookmarks@1",
"when": "editorTextFocus && config.bookmarks.showCommandsInContextMenu"
},
{
"command": "bookmarks.jumpToPrevious",
"group": "bookmarks@1",
"when": "editorTextFocus && config.bookmarks.showCommandsInContextMenu"
}
],
....
},
....
},
....
}
The command
can be any command; it does not have to be one installed by your extension.
The API docs are a bit vague about the meaning of the group
attribute:
Last, a
group
property defines sorting and grouping of menu items.
Its meaning is described more fully under Sorting of groups. A word like "bookmarks" establishes a group of menu entries separated from other groups by a horizontal rule, with groups ordered alphabetically, and the "@<number>" suffix controls ordering within each group:
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