Suggestion: Sync Preferences

[Jon_Davis]

This is a fairly trivial bit, but it would be nice if the sync system would sync preferences. I’m probably an outlier in that I change computers fairly frequently (for work) and it would be nice to have as many of the various preferences carry over as possible. Themes, keybinds, editor settings. Etc

Thanks!

[craftzdog (Takuya Matsuyama)]

Hi Jon,

Yeah, I understand it’d be nice to sync also preferences.
VSCode’s approach would be helpful:

Settings Sync in Visual Studio Code

It requires a lot of internal changes because it should carefully handle conflicts, platform differences, and selective sync.
I’d like to discuss it when finished the current roadmap. I’m currently working on building the native Markdown editor for iOS and Android.

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Hi Shashank, Thank you for the question. I’m afraid that syncing settings across devices is not supported. Because the app settings could depend on a platform with keymaps, plugins and themes. If you still would like to sync without caring about that, you can copy config.cson, keymap.cson and packages directory in the user data directory via git or something. But it might cause unknown issue, so please do it at your own risk. And note that installed plugins may have many files in their nod…