freakfere.blogg.se - Visual studio code remote ssh

Even code completion and code exploration across the files in the directory worked fine in Python and C++ code for me.

You should now be able to do everything you could do locally in VSCode on this remote directory.

VSCode will prompt you for the password on the remote computer.

Click the + to add a new remote directory by providing the ssh command and then the path on the remote computer.

(If you are also using WSL, you might see WSL Targets listed there, but that is not what we want.)

Open Remote Explorer on the left and choose SSH Targets from the top dropdown.

Search for the Remote - SSH extension in VSCode and install it.

This is in contrast to the Remote VSCode extension which made it easy to open individual files residing on a remote computer using SSH, but was not ideal for larger-scale work like working on a project or directory of files. Once you set it up and have a remote directory open, you can browse the directory tree, open any files, find-replace and lookup definitions across all the files. The Remote - SSH extension makes opening and working with remote directories just as natural and fully-featured in Visual Studio Code as working with local directories.

Work with remote directories in VSCode using Remote SSH