I cannot figure out how to not have the go to View>Open View... and click outline secondary sidebar every time I open VS Code. I’ve tried saving on close, searching the preferences, searching the docs, and searching Stack Overflow. All I ever find is how to manually open the view every time – never anything about defaulting to that view always opening. What am I missing? What am I doing wrong in searching for a solution to this issue? I surprised I cannot find it.

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is what it says when I enter any terminal or vs code. I am trying to change my username to something different but haven’t found anything that works. Is it because when I download VS Code it just uses the name in the laptop? Let me know if there is a way I can resolve this issue

Suddenly the initial indentation of the Explorer column in VScode got bigger. I tried all ways to fix it but no success. What should i do to get rid of that gap before the name of the files ?
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In VS code when the cursor is placed in front of a quote character, and you press that same character on your keyboard, instead of inserting a character as you would expect it just positions the cursor after the already existing quote character. I want to disable this behavior and instead, insert the quote that I typed, but I cannot find a setting to do this.

These label thingies make it so hard to code:
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