Allow to install extension in all of profiles at once.

[waleedrana777]

I have 5,6 profiles and 200+ extensions. If I want to install a common extension to all profiles, I have to do manually!
Allow to install extension in all profiles at once. One by one takes a lot of time.

[283375]

+1 for this. Maybe we could make profiles "inheritable" (or "extendable"? I've seen this in some tsconfig.jsons), such as

common.json

{
  "workbench.colorTheme": "My Favorite Theme",
  "editor.fontFamily": "FiraCode NF, monospace",
  "editor.fontLigatures": true,
  "extensions": ["copilot", "git graph", "indent rainbow", "other useful exts", "..."]
  "...": "..."
}

then we could make python.json, web.json, ..., to inherit common.json, like

python.json

{
  "extends": "common.json",
  "editor.tabSize": 4,
  "extensions": ["pylance", "docstring generator", "..."]
}

web.json

{
  "extends": "common.json",
  "editor.tabSize": 2,
  "extensions": ["prettier", "eslint", "volar", "..."]
}

and thus we could only modify common.json to update all other profiles.

Maybe this is hard to implement, but I think it's a good idea for this issue. Would love to see this feature if possible😇

[ldelossa]

+1

It's often that I use profiles just to separate user configs between environments.

I usually want the same extensions to exist in different profiles, and I'll disable/enable them for a particular workspace.

Right now, there is no way of syncing settings after a profile has been created. Some type of sync/cascading settings would be super useful.

[sandy081]

/duplicate

#157492

[vscodenpa]

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