# IDE and code editor configuration

## Table of Contents

- [IDE and code editor configuration](#ide-and-code-editor-configuration)
  - [Microsoft Visual Studio Code](#microsoft-visual-studio-code)

## Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Download Microsoft Visual Studio Code at https://code.visualstudio.com/ and follow instructions at https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/go to setup Go extension for it.

Create new directory `.vscode` in Gitea root folder and copy contents of folder [contrib/development/vscode](vscode/) to it. You can now use `Ctrl`+`Shift`+`B` to build gitea executable and `F5` to run it in debug mode.

Supported on Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Fedora, SUSE Linux, MacOS and Microsoft Windows.
