How to display hidden files with visual studio code

Question

The Open File dialog box Visual Studio Codedoes not show hidden files. For example, looking at my home directory, none of the .files are shown:

I looked at the file settings.jsonbut did not find the appropriate settings. So how to set it up correctly vscode?

Answer 1

There are no settings, but you can click cmd shift .in the open file dialog to see hidden files

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Answer 2

Under Linux, you can right-click on files in the file selection window and check the "Show hidden files" box.