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Exploring the default settings

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Exploring the default settings

- [Instructor] The settings for the terminal are controlled by two JSON files, and I want to show you the default settings first. To get to those, I'll click on the profiles menu, hold down the Alt key and choose settings. This opens up the default settings file in my editor. This file has quite a few settings that affect how the terminal overall functions, and it's not intended to be edited. We can override any of these settings in a personal settings file, that I'll show you in a moment. While it might seem pointless to explore a file we shouldn't change, this file serves a few important purposes. It shows you a lot of the settings that are available, and it shows you the initial configuration. And because this file is where all the options are set initially, it also provides a useful cheat sheet for remembering the keyboard shortcuts we saw earlier. Settings for Windows terminal are divided into a few sections, those…

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