CHANGELOG.md

3.28.0 29 Jan 2026

• ✨ Pick a problem by (message/source/code) and change its visual style "errorLens.transmute" setting. demo

3.27.0 27 Jan 2026

• ✨ Pick a problem by (message/source/code) and change its severity "errorLens.transmute" setting. demo
• 🔨 Delete deprecated setting "errorLens.exclude"

3.26.0 29 Apr 2025

• 🔨 Deprecate "errorLens.exclude" setting in favor of "errorLens.excludeByMessage".

"errorLens.exclude" was transforming every string into a Regular Expression which is bad for performance and can lead to an Extension Host crash (Extension causes high cpu load). New setting "errorLens.excludeByMessage" matches strings by default(case-insensitive), but can use Regular Expressions too (use object instead of a string).

3.25.0 01 Apr 2025

• ✨ Configure inline message border "errorLens.border" demo
• ✨ Allow relative fontSize (negative/smaller) to "editor.fontSize" e.g.: "errorLens.fontSize": "-4",
• ✨ Apply gutter colors to text specified in "errorLens.gutterEmoji" (symbols like ⏻/⛆/▣/◈/⟁/... or any letter/text)
• 🐛 Fix possible NPE when problems were removed
• 🔨 Remove duplicate onSave timeout. Change default timeout from 1000 to 500 "errorLens.onSaveTimeout": 500,

3.24.0 06 Mar 2025

• ✨ Add hint gutter icons
• 🐛 Fix Code Lens not respecting delay settings ("errorLens.onSave", "errorLens.delay" (only for "errorLens.delayMode": "new"))
• 🐛 Fix Code Lens not respecting file exclusions ("errorLens.ignoreDirty", "errorLens.ignoreUntitled", ...)
• 🔨 Remove experimental mutiline decorations

3.23.0 30 Jan 2025

• ✨ Exclude Problem command should be available to call from "Command Palette" / hotkey
• 🐛 Fix #223 Error decorations persist in jupyter notebooks (ipynb) after resolution

3.22.1 28 Jan 2025

• 🐛 Fix "Copy Problem Message" command not working
• 🐛 Maybe fixed #223 Error decorations persist in jupyter notebooks (ipynb) after resolution

3.22.0 20 Dec 2024

• 📚 Created docs/examples page: https://github.com/usernamehw/vscode-error-lens/blob/master/docs/docs.md
• ✨ Added command to foce update/clear decorations "command": "errorLens.updateEverything", "args": { "kind": "update"// "clear" }
• 🔨 "errorLens.align" to use its own numerical property value for padding
• 🔨 Setting values "followCursor": "activeLine" & "closestProblem" should not use end range of diagnostics
• 🐛 Maybe fixed #223 Error decorations persist in jupyter notebooks (ipynb) after resolution
• 🐛 Maybe fixed #214 Decorations not updated when using split editor

3.21.0 16 Dec 2024

• ✨ New setting "errorLens.ignoreDirty" - don't show decorations in modified unsaved files (when "files.autoSave" is disabled)
• 🐛 Honour padding for "errorLens.alignMessage", set "useFixedPosition": true by default
• 🐛 Fix emoji & letter gutter icons not working in VSCode 1.96.0

3.20.0 22 Jun 2024

• ✨ Changed how "errorLens.onSave" works. Less erratic decoration updating
• ✨ New setting "errorLens.onSaveUpdateOnActiveEditorChange" to control whether or not to draw decorations on editor focus change (when "errorLens.onSave" enabled)
• ✨ New value for "errorLens.statusBarMessageType" setting: "activeCursor" => updates status bar for closest problem inside the active line
• 🐛 Fix "errorLens.statusBarMessageType": "activeLine" doesn't sort problems by severity

3.19.0 21 Jun 2024

• ✨ Add new delay mode. It is the default now: "errorLens.delayMode": "new"
• 🐛 Fix bug when enabling status bar message extension re-rendered editor decorations (interfered with "errorLens.delay" AND "errorLens.onSave")

3.18.0 28 May 2024

• 🐛 Code Lens fixes: doesn't respect : errorLens.enabled & errorLens.enabledDiagnosticLevels & errorLens.excludePatterns
• ✨ Code Lens change default settings: "max": 100 -> 200

3.17.0 14 Apr 2024

• ✨ Show problems using "Code Lens" api. New settings: "errorLens.codeLensEnabled", "errorLens.codeLensTemplate", "errorLens.codeLensOnClick", "errorLens.codeLensLength" PR 202 by duncanawoods

3.16.0 16 Dec 2023

• ✨ Honor vscode problems.visibility setting when showing decorations (new setting "errorLens.respectUpstreamEnabled")
• ✨ Ignore running on untitled files (new setting "errorLens.ignoreUntitled") PR 190 by smcenlly

3.15.0 22 Oct 2023

• ✨ New gutter icons "errorLens.gutterIconSet": "emoji" & setting to control: "errorLens.gutterEmoji": { "error": "💀", "warning": "😞", "info": "🆗", "hint": "🍏" }
• ✨ New property "useFixedPosition" to "errorLens.alignMessage" setting (to reduce stuttering)
• ✨ New setting "errorLens.statusBarIconsTargetProblems": "all" | "activeEditor" | "visibleEditors" to choose which problems to use for counting problems (icons status bar item)

3.14.0 25 Sep 2023

• ✨ Align message "errorLens.alignMessage" Issue 136
• ✨ Highlight problem range "errorLens.problemRangeDecorationEnabled"
• 🐛 "letter" gutter icon set should use editor font family

3.13.0 08 Aug 2023

• ✨ New command errorLens.selectProblem - select range of the closest problem PR 178 by zardoy
• ✨ New setting "errorLens.delayMode"
• ✨ New options for gutter icons: "squareRounded" and "letter"

3.12.0 14 Jul 2023

• ✨ New setting "errorLens.replace" - transform error message PR 175 by ssalbdivad
• ✨ New command errorLens.toggleInlineMessage => toggle "errorLens.messageEnabled" setting
• ✨ Allow linter disabling comments on the same line (in "errorLens.disableLineComments" setting => append SAME_LINE to the text)
• ✨ Add "square" gutter icon set
• ✨ "square" and "circle" gutter icons now show for hint diagnostic severity
• 🐛 Make "defaultOutline" gutter icons the same size as other icons

3.11.1 08 Jun 2023

• 🐛 Fix: Notebooks show duplciated messages PR 171 by r3m0t

3.11.0 06 May 2023

• 💥 Disable all hovers by default "errorLens.editorHoverPartsEnabled"
• ✨ Add option to show source/code in hover "sourceCodeEnabled" property for "errorLens.editorHoverPartsEnabled" setting
• ✨ New command and button in hover: errorLens.searchForProblem - search in default browser for problem (query controlled by "errorLens.searchForProblemQuery" setting)
• ✨ New command and button in hover: errorLens.disableLine - add comment to disable linter for this line

3.10.1 26 Apr 2023

• 🐛 Fix: Changing enabled/disabled status doesn't update visible editors #163

3.10.0 18 Apr 2023

• 💥 Replace "errorLens.editorHoverEnabled" with "errorLens.editorHoverPartsEnabled". Disable hover message by default (not buttons).
• ✨ Hover message is monospace and doesn't replace linebreaks
• ✨ Hover message is status bar has the same buttons as editor hover (when "errorLens.statusBarMessageEnabled" is enabled)

3.9.0 07 Apr 2023

• ✨ New command errorlens.toggleWorkspace and setting "excludeWorkspaces" to exclude entire folder. PR 154 by onuryukselce
• ✨ Add hover for editor decorations (errorLens.editorHoverEnabled to disable)
• ✨ Editor hover has buttons to: "Exclude problem" or "Open linter rule definition". "errorLens.lintFilePaths" setting controls which files to search for linter rule.

3.8.0 14 Mar 2023

• 🐛 Error range should use starting point #147
• 🐛 Ignore notebook cells for enableOnDiffView setting #116

3.7.0 07 Feb 2023

• ✨ Make extension available on the web
• ✨ Configure symbol replacing newlines "errorLens.replaceLinebreaksSymbol" #137

3.6.0 24 Jul 2022

• ✨ Allow ignoring errors by code #126
• ✨ Don't show decorations on files with merge conflict markers #129
• ✨ Disable inline message: Make "errorLens.messageMaxChars: 0" possible #130

3.5.2 13 Jul 2022

• 🐛 When zero errors/warnings should remove status bar icon foreground color
• 🐛 When delay is set - status bar icons is not updated
• 💥 Change default setting statusBarIconsAtZero to "removeBackground"

3.5.1 26 May 2022

• 🐛 Fix broken errorLens.delay setting #121

3.5.0 18 May 2022

• ✨ Control status bar items alignment and priority. Settings: errorLens.statusBarIconsAlignment, errorLens.statusBarIconsPriority, errorLens.statusBarMessageAlignment, errorLens.statusBarMessagePriority
• ✨ Add "allLinesExceptActive" option to the errorLens.followCursor setting #115
• 🔨 Refactor a bit to improve performance

3.4.2 09 Mar 2022

• ✨ Add option to disable decorations on diff view "errorLens.enableOnDiffView" #72
• ✨ Add option to quickly switch between line background highlighting modes "errorLens.messageBackgroundMode" #113

3.4.1 13 Nov 2021

• ✨ Create foreground colors for status bar icons #98
• ✨ Maximum Message Length #100
• 🐛 Fix separated status bar icons #96
• 🐛 Remove newlines from the deprecation message #99

3.4.0 06 Aug 2021

• 💥 Create setting errorLens.enabled . Toggle commands now use global settigns.json to save their state.

Error Lens: Toggle (Enable/Disable) Everything - toggles errorLens.enabled
Error Lens: Toggle Errors - toggles items inside errorLens.enabledDiagnosticLevels

• ✨ Create status bar icons with highlighted background #96

3.3.2 29 Jul 2021

• 🐛 Try to fix errorLens.delay setting

3.3.1 16 Jul 2021

• ✨ Make extension work on remote VSCode (github codespaces) #91

3.3.0 27 Jun 2021

• 💥 Remove hint diagnostics from default. To revert - change errorLens.enabledDiagnosticLevels to ["error", "warning", "info", "hint"]
• 💥 errorLens.addAnnotationTextPrefixes & errorLens.addNumberOfDiagnostics settings are deprecated in favor of errorLens.messageTemplate vscode-error-lens/issues/92
• 💥 Change default value of setting errorLens.removeLinebreaks to true
• 🐛 Status bar should honor enabled diagnostic levels
• ✨ Add closestSeverity option for status bar setting errorLens.statusBarMessageType. Show most severe closest problem in status bar.

3.2.7 31 May 2021

• ✨ Replace linebreaks in inline diagnostics with whitespace
• ✨ Click on Status Bar Item to go to the problem

3.2.6 18 Apr 2021

• ✨ Exclude diagnostics by source "errorLens.excludeBySource"

3.2.5 12 Mar 2021

• 🐛 Fix custom gutter icons stopped working
• 🐛 Fix when delay is set excludePatterns is ignored

3.2.4 13 Nov 2020

• ✨ Use "ui" extension kind to support remote PR #63 by @Daniel15

3.2.3 03 Oct 2020

• ✨ Add setting to hide inline message errorLens.messageEnabled

3.2.2 28 Sep 2020

• ✨ Add separate colors for status bar items

3.2.1 23 Aug 2020

• ✨ Add option to prevent horizontal scrollbar appearing for decorations with errorLens.scrollbarHackEnabled
• ✨ onSave should work with vscode autosave

3.2.0 08 Aug 2020

• ✨ Exclude files by glob with excludePatterns setting
• ✨ Use onStartupFinished activation event
• 🔨 Refactor

3.1.1 20 Apr 2020

• 🐛 Fix wrong type for a setting that generated warning PR #49 by @Luxcium

3.1.0 01 Apr 2020

• ✨ Add an option to render gutter icons separately from main decoration #45 Show only gutter icons unless cursor is on line with error
• ✨ Change status bar item to show message for the active line
• ✨ Add an option to use decoration colors for status bar message (statusBarColorsEnabled)

3.0.0 19 Feb 2020

• 💥 Deprecate and delete errorLens.useColorContributions
• 💥 Deprecate and delete errorLens.editorActiveTabDecorationEnabled (Move to a separate extension)
• ✨ delay setting should only work for a new diagnostics (Fixed diagnostics decoration should be removed immediately) #39
• ✨ Show closest to cursor diagnostic in status bar errorLens.statusBarMessageEnabled
• ✨ Expose addNumberOfDiagnostics as a setting
• ✨ Expose padding as a setting
• ✨ Expose borderRadius as a setting
• ✨ Update margin setting to use ch units instead of px

2.9.0 09 Jan 2020

• 💥 Set errorLens.useColorContributions to true
• ✨ Create command to transfer colors from Settings to Colors: Convert colors from Settings to Colors.. Note: colors only for light themes are not supported yet.
• 💄 Remove number of diagnostics from annotation prefix.

2.8.1 29 Nov 2019

• 🐛 Fix missing message prefix when there are multiple diagnostics on the line Issue #33

2.8.0 26 Nov 2019

• 💥 Delete clearDecorations option
• ✨ Possible future breaking change: Using color contributions instead of settings values for colors. Now hidden behind a config errorLens.useColorContributions
• ✨ Specify custom message prefix
• 🐛 Fix broken circle gutter icon set
• 🔨 Update version to 1.40.0

2.7.2 12 Oct 2019

• 🐛 Prevent :after decoration clashing with other extensions PR #28 by @bmalehorn

2.7.1 14 Sep 2019

• 💥 Deprecate exclude setting using source and code and leave only exclude using problem message.
• ✨ Set some padding, only when one of message colors is set (errorLens.errorMessageBackground / ...)
• 🔨 Allow omitting CSS units for margin & fontSize (px will be used)

2.7.0 20 Aug 2019

• 🐛 Fix not updated decorations while dragging tabs
• 🐛 Fix not working on remote
• ✨ New gutter icon set defaultOutline
• ✨ Ability to change message background on top of the entire line background: errorLens.errorMessageBackground / ...

2.6.0 15 Aug 2019

• ✨ Ability to show only closest to the cursor problems (errorLens.followCursor).
• ✨ Ability to change active editor tab title background when file has Errors/Warnings (errorLens.editorActiveTabDecorationEnabled)

2.5.0 11 Jul 2019

• 💥 Deprecate enum setting errorLens.fontStyle in favor of boolean errorLens.fontStyleItalic
• 💥 Change default settings errorLens.addAnnotationTextPrefixes and errorLens.margin
• 🐛 Error decoration must always trump Warning etc: ERROR => WARNING => INFO => HINT
• ✨ New command to copy problem at active line number errorLens.copyProblemMessage

2.4.1 11 Jul 2019

• 🐛 Decorations stopped working in settings.json in 1.37

2.4.0 06 Jul 2019

• ✨ New gutter icon set circle
• 💥 Change default colors for INFO & HINT diagnostics
• ✨ Any unset light color/path should default to ordinary one.
• ✨ Add commands to temporarily disable one level of diagnostic Fixes #10
• 💥 Deprecate: errorLens.errorGutterIconPathLight, errorLens.warningGutterIconPathLight and errorLens.infoGutterIconPathLight. They were moved into errorLens.light.

2.3.4 22 Jun 2019

• ✨ Add an option to choose if the decorations should be cleared when you start typing (only when delay is set) – errorLens.clearDecorations.

2.3.3 09 Jun 2019

• 🔨 Update dependencies

2.3.2 07 Jun 2019

• ✨ Set custom gutter icons (Using absolute file path).

2.3.1 02 Jun 2019

• ✨ Configure gutter icon size with: errorLens.gutterIconSize
• ✨ Configure gutter icons to be borderless with errorLens.gutterIconSet: PR #6 by @karlsander

2.3.0 01 Jun 2019

• ✨ Add an option to render gutter icons errorLens.gutterIconsEnabled
• 🔨 Increase limit for long messages truncation from 300 to 500 symbols

2.2.3 25 May 2019

• ✨ Draw decorations in Untitled files
• 📚 Add an example of exclude setting to README
• 🔨 Move exclude RegExp creation out of the loop

2.2.2 24 May 2019

• 🐛 Different fix for decorations not rendered the first time with errorLens.onSave

2.2.1 24 May 2019

• 🐛 Fix failed to update decorations (on save) when language diagnostics haven't changed

2.2.0 23 May 2019

• ✨ Update decorations only on document save with errorLens.onSave

2.1.1 22 May 2019

• ✨ Change font family with errorLens.fontFamily

2.1.0 21 May 2019

• ✨ Customize delay before showing problems with errorLens.delay

2.0.4 19 May 2019

• ✨ Allow to set colors for light themes separately with the setting errorLens.light

2.0.3 19 May 2019

• 🐛 Fix disposing decorations when settings change from Settings GUI

2.0.2 18 May 2019

• ✨ Customize font size of messages with errorLens.fontSize
• 🐛 Toggle ErrorLens command should update decorations for all visible editors

2.0.1 18 May 2019

• ✨ Update decorations for all visible editors (split/grid)
• 🐛 Additionally dispose decorations when settings change

2.0.0 18 May 2019

• ✨ Support excluding some of the problems with the setting errorLens.exclude
• ✨ Hot reload of all Settings
• 💥 Toggle extension with one command errorLens.toggle instead of two
• 💥 Rename colors to have background & foreground suffix
• 💥 Remove statusbar entry completely
• 💥 Change default values (colors, fontStyle)
• 💥 Experimental: remove onDidOpenTextDocument event listener
• 🔨 Minor fixes like more specific types for Setting values
• 🔨 Use webpack

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