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How did I not know about this capability?

This is the one thing that I used to miss in Powershell all this while. And just recently I got to know that this can be enabled very simply.

vi mode can be enabled in the profile by adding this –

# Enable Vi editing mode
Set-PSReadLineOption -EditMode Vi

VS Code has this setting on by default – as I start typing it tries to suggest some MDN references. It took me forever to figure out how to set this off.

Every time I’m setting up VS Code on a new machine, I forget what this setting is!

"editor.parameterHints.enabled": false,

Multiple times during the day, I comment a line and then duplicate it with some minor changes. This whole action does not take much time individually but over the course of days and years, I think I’ve wasted a lot of time on this!

This has been overdue for a long time, and I should have created a snippet for this earlier, but never got around to it.

So, I’ll create a snippet which does exactly that and map it to keyboard shortcuts so that the same shortcut works across multiple programming languages.

Many times on a rake task it’s better to have a confirmation before continuing the task. This is especially required before important tasks like a deployment or a database migration in production.

Adding a gets doesn’t work at all. To overcome this, we can add a confirm task which is run before the actual task is run.