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Selective Auto Save

Selective Auto Save

Mateus Pitura

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4 installs
| (0) | Free
Use glob patterns to selectively auto-save files in VS Code
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Selective Auto Save

Description

A VS Code extension that enables selective auto-saving of files using glob patterns. Save specific files automatically while excluding others, with configurable delays

  • Features
  • How to Run
  • Technologies Used
  • Authors

Features

💾 Glob Patterns: include and exclude files with glob pattern matching

⏱️ Configurable Delay: set the delay before auto-saving

How to Run

  1. In VSCode search for Selective Auto Save in the extensions tab
  2. Configure the extension via VS Code settings:
{
  "selectiveAutoSave.enable": true,
  "selectiveAutoSave.delay": 1000,
  "selectiveAutoSave.include": ["backend/**/*"],
  "selectiveAutoSave.exclude": []
}

For devs:

  1. Install packages with npm i

  2. To test, press F5

  3. Update the CHANGELOG

  4. Update version references and run npm i

  5. Compile with npm run package

  6. Upload the .vsix to Visual Studio Marketplace

  7. Create a tag in Git and upload to GitHub

  8. Create a new release on GitHub

Technologies Used

TypeScript

Authors

Mateus Pitura

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