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Customizing your profiles

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Customizing your profiles

- [Instructor] Let's take a look at customizing settings for the Windows Terminal. To get to the settings, I'll click on the new tab menu and choose settings, but this time without holding down any other keys. This opens up the user editable settings file, and I have mine opened here in VS Code. If you have Visual Studio Code set as the default program for JSON files, it makes editing the settings a little easier. You get all the nice features of the editor like brace matching, syntax checking, automatic suggestions for key names, and you get previews of colors as little boxes, which is helpful. But because the settings file is plain text, you can still make changes with Notepad or other editors. Here at the top of the file, there's a key for the default profile, which is the profile that launches in new tabs if you don't specify a different profile by clicking or using a keyboard shortcut. The default profile will be shown…

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