Instructor Mode

[sdras]

As per the conversation with @auchenberg and @chrisdias, it's been requested by a number of instructors to take zen mode one step further. The expected behavior would:

• Have no LOC numbers visible
• Go full screen
• Remove the icons from the top right
• Have no tabs
• Be available and removed on a toggle

cc @johnpapa @kentcdodds @eggheadio @elijahmanor

Please feel free to add to this thread if I've misrepresented anything. Thank you for your time and effort in this!

[kentcdodds]

Here's the best I was able to manage without using a bunch of extensions:

I'd like to remove as many unnecessary things as possible. So...

• Hide the scroll bar on the right
• Hide the tab at the top (and icons)
• A little less padding around the code
• Also, I'd like to be able to put the terminal on the left side of the code for my use case

I would also like to add that my use cases are varied. When I do a screencast in a single file then this the above mentioned things are preferred. When I'm doing a workshop, then having the filepath of the currently opened file would be important as well as line numbers.

If there were a way to easily switch between setting overrides (there's probably an extension for this) + have settings for some of these things that don't exist quite yet, then I think that would satisfy my use cases very well :)

[kentcdodds]

One other thing. I recently switched to code from atom and one thing I really loved about atom was that there's a stylesheet for css overrides that's built-into the editor. That made this kind of thing pretty straightforward and flexible. Would be cool to have something like that in code :)

[ghost]

Hiding line numbers and scrollbar would be very useful and should also be available in zen mode settings.

[snebjorn]

Can't this be solved using the screencast feature (implemented in version 1.31) plus this #105226

[chrisdias]

i believe this is being handled by profiles https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_74#_profiles