Editor Tweaks

A collection of small VS Code editor utilities packed into a single extension.

Each feature is a focused improvement over the extension that originally inspired it.

Features

• Highlight Current Line — bottom border decoration on the active cursor line
• Toggle Quotes — cycle quote characters surrounding the cursor (" → ' → ` → ")
• Remove Tabs on Save — replace tab characters with spaces using the editor's tabSize on save
• Prune Open History — remove inaccessible paths from the recently opened list and the Go-to-File (Cmd+P) history

Highlight Current Line

Original Highlight Line

Improve:

• Adds dimmed border (70% opacity) on inactive editors in split-screen

Applies a bottom border decoration to the active cursor line.

• Active editor: full-brightness border following the cursor
• Other visible editors: same border at 70% opacity, pinned to their last cursor position
• Fully configurable: border color, style (solid / dashed / dotted), and width

Settings:

Toggle Quotes

Original Toggle Quotes

Improve:

• Fixes \\ before closing quote being misidentified as an escape
• Unescapes and re-escapes content when switching delimiters (original only swaps the quote chars)
• Deduplicates multi-cursor edits on the same string (original applies the change twice, corrupting it)

Cycles the quote character surrounding the cursor: " → ' → ` → " …

• Trigger: Alt+'
• Correctly handles \\ before a closing quote
• Automatically unescapes/re-escapes delimiters when switching (e.g. \" → " when leaving ")
• Works with multiple cursors — each cursor cycles its own quoted string independently

Settings:

Remove Tabs on Save

Original Remove Tabs on Save

Improve:

• Uses actual column position for tab stop calculation (original used string index, giving wrong expansion mid-line)
• Unifies exclusions into excludePatterns supporting language ID, exact filename, or *-glob (original only supported extension globs and a separate ignoreMakefiles flag)

Before writing a file to disk, replaces all tab characters with spaces using the editor's tabSize setting.

• Tab stops are computed by column position, not a flat replacement (e.g. a tab at column 2 with tabSize: 4 expands to 2 spaces)
• Exclude files by language ID, exact filename, or *-glob (defaults exclude makefile and *.go which require tabs)

Settings:

Prune Open History

Original Recently Opened Sweeper

Improve:

• Skips non-file:// entries for both workspaces and files — SSH/remote/virtual entries are never touched (original may attempt fsPath on them)
• Single maxItems setting applied independently to each category: workspaces get maxItems slots and files get maxItems slots (original's keepCount is per-category but documented as a single shared limit)
• Also prunes the Go-to-File (Cmd+P) editor history (not covered by the original)

Removes stale entries from both:

• The VS Code recently opened list (File → Open Recent)
• The Go-to-File (Cmd+P) editor history

"Stale" means the path no longer exists on disk.

• Runs automatically on startup (configurable)
• Also available as a manual command: Editor Tweaks: Prune Open History
• Non-file:// entries (SSH, remote, virtual workspaces) in the recently opened list are always kept untouched
• maxItems is applied independently to each category of the recently opened list: workspaces and files each get maxItems slots
• Pruning the Go-to-File history requires the system sqlite3 CLI (available by default on macOS and most Linux distributions); if absent this part of the feature is silently skipped and only the recently-opened list is pruned
• Go-to-File history pruning takes effect on the next launch (stale entries are written back to the workspace database on window close)

Settings:

License

Under the MIT License.