Remove the space before line numbers which is used for breakpoints in VS Code

Question

My laptop has a small screen and I often use VS Code in half of the screen for multitasking, but I want more space in VS Code so that I can see more text on the screen, so I want to remove these spaces because I don't use breakpoints, and for me, it is a waste of space in the editor.

If is there any way to remove these spaces before lines?

Answer 1

Put the following in your settings.json file:

"editor.glyphMargin": false

The setting's description says:

Controls whether the editor should render the vertical glyph margin. Glyph margin is mostly used for debugging.

This section of the UI is often called a "gutter" in IDE terminology. You might not belive it, but I found this tip as part of the first result by googling "vscode gutter" (a comment in the GitHub issue: Can the VSCode gutter be made smaller, i.e., decreased size/width? #30795).