Don't get me wrong. VSCode is an amazing editor. (I mean IDE!)

But it feels a all over the place, when it comes to finding settings files. So I created this page to show you how to open settings.json (the main settings file in VS Code) fast.

Visual Studio Code stores its editor settings in a JSON file. JSON is JavaScript Object Notation format. If you program in JavaScript you already know what it is.

How To Open settings.json file in VS Code on Windows

If you're on Windows this video is for you.

(How to open settings in vscode on windows)

Here's a brief video explaining how to open the settings file on a Mac.

(How to open settings.json on a mac in visual studio code)

And for those who like to read, here are step by step instructions.

How To Open settings.json file in VS Code?

This is the fastest way to open settings.json file in Visual Studio Code.

First, open User Settings page:

Press Ctrl + , (comma) on Windows, or...

Press ⌘ + , (comma) on Mac.

Or...

• Go to File menu
• Select Preferences
• Then select Settings

Next, on the User Settings screen, click on a small button that looks like a new file icon in upper right corner of the VSCode dashboard:

Image: fastest way to open settings.json is through this button.

There is another way to open settings.json file in VSCode. But it's not as intuitive, and you have to do a lot of typing and clicking. It's explained in next section:

Where is settings.json file in Visual Studio Code? To open VSCode's settings.json file first open Command Palette.

Press Ctrl + shift + P on Windows or...

Press ⌘ + shift + P on Mac

This opens Command Palette in VSCode, which is an input box. Typing into it will cause a the menu show a list of drop down items relevant to your search query.

Type settings.json and click on one of the options on drop down.

(You can also open defaultSettings.json file here.)

From now on, your settings.json file will be open in one of the tabs. You can right click on it and "pin" it to the tabs bar, to make sure it can be easily found during current session.

How to reset settings.json to default?

The defaultSettings.json file is read-only.

You can use it to reset your current VSCode settings.

Just copy and paste it into your settings.json

The end.

Note: the original article was published how to open settings.json in vscode here.