Despite August being a popular month for Visual Studio Code engineers to vacation, the dev team managed to churn out a bunch of new features in the regular monthly update, bringing the lightweight, ...

The previous version, VS Code 1.71, arrived last month, featuring easier transitions between text and merge editors. It was followed by two security updates.

The October 2022 VS Code release, version 1.73, brought improvements to the Command Center and the merge editor and introduced Dev Container templates and new Python extensions.

Editor -- add keyboard shortcut keys for snippets, Go to Implementation, fast search navigation. Languages -- Emmet abbreviations from external files, HTML format settings, Markdown editing ...