How vscode configures the go language development environment

Install Go development extension

Now we need to install the Go extension plug-in for our VS Code editor, let It supports Go language development.

Install Go language development tool kit

Press Ctrl Shift P on Windows platform and press Ctrl Shift P on Mac platform Command Shift P. At this time, an input box will pop up on the VS Code interface, as shown below:

Enter >go:install in this input box, and the following will automatically search for related information. command, we select the command Go:Install/Update Tools

and select it and press Enter to execute the command (or click the mouse with the Command)

Then click the "OK" button to install. The following input window will pop up:

VS Code will download and install the 16 tools listed above at this time. However, due to the domestic network environment, the installation will basically fail, as shown in the following FAILED:

Solution: Use git to download the source code and then install it

We can manually download the tool from github, (To perform this step, you need to have git installed on your computer)

Step one: Now create the golang.org/x directory under the src directory of your GOPATH

Step two: In the terminal/cmd, cd to the GOPATH/src/golang.org/x directory

Step 3: Execute the git clone https://github.com/golang/tools.git tools command

Step 4: Execute the git clone https://github.com/golang/lint.git command

Step 5: Press Ctrl/Command Shift P and execute the Go:Install/Update Tools command again, Select them all in the pop-up window and click OK. This time the installation will be SUCCESSED.

After following the above steps, the installation can be successful. At this time, when you create a Go file, you can use code prompts, code formatting and other tools normally.

Configuring automatic saving

Click Preferences->Settings. When you open the settings page, you can see the relevant configuration of automatic saving as shown in the figure. You can choose the automatic saving method according to your own preferences:

Configure code snippet shortcut keys

or Press Ctrl/Command Shift P, enter >snippets as shown below, select the command and execute it:

## Then click in the pop-up window Select the go option:

You can briefly read the above comments, which introduce the main usage:

where $0 represents the final position of the cursor. For example, I have created two shortcuts here. One is to enter pln and the fmt.Println() code will be inserted into the editor; enter plf and the fmt.Printf("") code will be inserted.

After adding the above configuration, save it.

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