change or delete default profile

[yongtong19]

Profile is great feature and I'm glad to see its introduction to vscode and enjoying using it.
But when I open a file, vscode will stay in the Default profile. It sometimes bothers me.

For example, I want to use vscode to open a csv file. I only install Excel Viewer extension in my particular Python profile. So if the file is opened in the default profile, I can't use this extension and I don't want to install this extension in both profiles.

So, would you like to implement the feature that users can delete the Default profile or just make another profile default? Thanks.

[isidorn]

Glad to hear you are enjoying profiles. To change what is a default profile is a fair feature request but nothing on the immediate plan. I am assigning it to the backlog for now to gather more user feedback.

fyi @sandy081

[sandy081]

/duplicate

#176132

[vscodenpa]

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Happy Coding!

[rashodkorala]

I think its fair to allow deleting all the profiles or to have at least reset the default profile. I messed with settings and now I find few things in settings page and some features are missing but if i create new profile they seems to appear properly. Yet i would like to have things in default profile rather than having in extra.

[yongtong19]

@rashodkorala maybe you could try to replace your settings.json with empty {}? This will effectively reset your settings.

[rashodkorala]

@yontonl No already tried that . Didn't reset it because I think settings.json pretty much overrides current settings and some settings are missing even to override it, right now my markdown preview feature is missing (cmd+shift+v). And I don't know what else could be missing as well .