How to export settings?

Question

How is it possible to export all Visual Studio Code settings and plugins and import them to another machine?

Answer 1

With the current version of Visual Studio Code as of this writing (1.22.1), you can find your settings in

• ~/.config/Code/User on Linux (in my case, an, Ubuntu derivative)
• C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Code\User on Windows 10
• ~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/ on Mac OS X (thank you, Christophe De Troyer)

The files are settings.json and keybindings.json. Simply copy them to the target machine.

Your extensions are in

• ~/.vscode/extensions on Linux and Mac OS X
• C:\Users\username\.vscode\extensions on Windows 10 (e.g., essentially the same place)

Alternately, just go to the Extensions, show installed extensions, and install those on your target installation. For me, copying the extensions worked just fine, but it may be extension-specific, particularly if moving between platforms, depending on what the extension does.