Disable all extensions and allow to enable selectively

[xahon]

I cannot check for an issue in extension because I need to disable all except that target extension. Option --disable-extensions allow us to disable all extensions at once but it doesn't allow to enable specific extensions

Or it should be --disable-extensions-except ID1 ID2 ID3
I don't know which one is the best

[madzadev]

As far as I know and https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/command-line#_working-with-extensions documents it, --disable-extensions do not support any additional parameters yet.

The reason for this most likely is: The possibility of you having like 20+ of extensions is pretty low (when you would really starting need this), so in rare cases like these you can disable them manually.

[xahon]

@madarsbiss when I worked with javascript, nodejs, react, npm, html, css it's already about ~60 extensions + debugger for chrome/firefox, prettier, json tools, etc.. and you can have some extensions temporarily disabled and when you do Disable all extensions -> Test something -> Enable all extensions, then previously disabled extensions will become enabled and you will need to disable every single one again. Quite time consuming thing

[sandy081]

Yes, you cannot enable extension when you start in extensions disabled mode. There is another UI gesture to disable all installed extensions which allows enabling extension one by one.