How to display hidden files with Visual Studio Code
The "open file" dialog in Visual Studio Code is not showing hidden files. For example, when looking at my home directory, none of the . files are shown:
I did look through the settings.json file, but I did not find any applicable setting. So - how do I configure Visual Studio Code properly?
On Mac you can hit cmdshift. in the open file dialog, to see hidden files.
(Source)
go to file -> preferences -> settings
and in the search bar, search for "files.exclude"
then delete whatever json setting that you don't want to hide that specific file