If you use this extension, I hope you can help me figure out how to make it
work.
(If you haven't heard of it, it's supposed to display a formatted RST file
in the right half of the editor's window while you edit the file in the
left half.)
I installed the extension and clicked the "split screen" icon below the
menu bar.I got a popup message that said, "Please review Python
installation on this machine before using this extension."
I clicked "Learn more" and learned that the extension depends on Python 3.5
or later. My system runs Python 2.7 because our production environment uses
several tools that depend on it, but I have Python 3.8 installed too. I
followed the "learn more" suggestion to add the path of the Python 3.8
directory to the VS Code settings file in a python.pythonPath directive.
Then I tried again, and got the same message.
Did I modify the settings file right? I think so; here's how it looks so
others can check. (Line 2 has been added.)
{
"python.pythonPath": "C:\\Program Files\\Python38\\",
"editor.minimap.enabled": false,
"breadcrumbs.enabled": true
}
Did I put the right value in the string? I think so; when I examine
C:\Program Files\Python38\ in File Explorer I see that it's a Python
installation's top level directory, and python.exe is in it.
Did I modify the right file? I did; when I change its "breadcrumbs.enabled"
directive from true to false, the editor's breadcrumb display disappears.
The extension instructions recommend using Microsoft's Python extension to
change the setting. It says, "Once you have that Python extension
installed, open `conf.py` in VSCode." It's not clear what this means, since
the VSC settings file is named settings.json, but I hoped that when I
opened the file that would become clear. But the instructions don't say
where this file is, and I can't find it. I searched my user directory and
both Program Files directories, and the only conf.py files I found were in
Sphinx projects.
One person told me that the project's conf.py is the one I'm supposed to
modify. That doesn't make sense, since there's no way for the editor to
tell what project an RST file is in when it opens the file. (The file could
perfectly well be in several!) I tried it anyway, but it didn't do anything.
Any ideas?
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