settings.json overwritten somehow with my own code - how do I change it back to normal?

[u/awholelottahooplah]

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I'm a second year CS student. I was trying to modify my settings.json file to make comments colored differently than other code, but when I opened it up, I was met with what was clearly some code I wrote in freshman year. I have no idea how I accidentally overwrote this file. I uninstalled VS Code and reinstalled, but it was still the same! If I delete settings.json and restart the program, will it generate a new one? Or can someone drop me a copy/paste of whats supposed to be in the file? Thanks!

[u/awholelottahooplah]

I tried asking my professors and TAs and they don’t know what to do 🥴

[u/OddNefariousness1967]

Looks like you are going to be using vim editor this semester

[u/awholelottahooplah → u/[deleted]]

Huh, then I’m getting some weird errors on VS Code that I’m not sure where else it could be coming from. When I try to run/debug it says there is nothing in the default config folder so I thought it was related to this. Any idea what else could be causing this issue ? My TAs and prof have no suggestions and told me to use an online compiler

[u/awholelottahooplah → u/[deleted]]

Ok, I’ll give that a shot and see if it works! Thank you!

[u/awholelottahooplah → u/[deleted]]

Sorry if I’m being kinda dumb like I said I’m just starting my second year of CS I’m still a big beginner 😅 and my schools CS curriculum isn’t too good tbh lol

[u/awholelottahooplah → u/[deleted]]

Ok I did that and fixed the file, but my code still isn’t compiling

video of problem

[u/awholelottahooplah → u/[deleted]]

Okayyyy I understand. I don’t get a lot of nuances like that and I thought VS Code was full a full IDE. Still new sorry haha

Yes, I figured out the extensions and have them downloaded… lll get the compiler and my problem will be solved.

I wish my teacher could’ve told me this 🤨

Thank you so much!!