Be able to maintain separate settings, keybindings, and snippet files, and include them with a directive

[akharrou]

be able to define separate setting, keybinding, and snippet, module files:

// ~/.config/code/settings/commons.json
{
    "editor.insertSpaces": false,
    "editor.tabSize": 16,
    ...
}

// ~/.config/code/keybindings/commons.json
{
    ...
}

// ~/.config/code/snippets/python.json
{
    ...    
}

and then be able to include them in other setting, keybinding, and snippet files, keeping everything clean and simple:

// settings.json
{
    "include": "~/.config/code/settings/commons.json"
    "include": "~/.config/code/settings/theme-base16.json",
    "include": "~/.config/code/settings/lang-python.json",
    "include": "~/.config/code/settings/lang-javascript.json",
    ...
}
// keybindings.json
{
    "include": "~/.config/code/keybindings/commons.json"
    ...
}
// snippets/python.json
{
    "include": "~/.config/code/snippets/python.json"
    ...
}

and then in some other profile setting, instead of copy pasting from one place to another, and having to go back and maintain 10 profiles, just include the setting modules I want for that specific profile, and just edit the separate modules and have everything automatically reflected throughout all setting profiles:

// settings.json (profile: school)
{
    "include": "~/.config/code/settings/commons.json"
    "include": "~/.config/code/settings/theme-monkai.json",
    "include": "~/.config/code/settings/lang-java.json",
    ...
}
// keybindings.json (profile: school)
{
    "include": "~/.config/code/keybindings/commons.json"
    ...
}
// snippets/java.json (profile: school)
{
    "include": "~/.config/code/snippets/java.json"
    ...
}

// settings.json (profile: work)
{
    "include": "~/.config/code/commons.json"
    "include": "~/.config/code/theme-one-dark.json",
    "include": "~/.config/code/lang-c.json",
    "include": "~/.config/code/lang-cpp.json",
}
...

you get the point

[akharrou]

thousands of less sophisticated software have this ability, why is this not in vscode yet ?

[sandy081]

/duplicate

Seems similar to #156144

[vscodenpa]

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