I'm a Python coder with ADHD (in my case, lacking the ability to produce enough dopamine to sustain my focus on things I do). Writing code in Python is the forest where I can produce the s**t out of it. So I enjoy writing code.

Despite my passion, I think I am still partly inefficient, about which I am sure there is a Visual Studio Code feature or extention addressing it.

My Problem

As I progress writing hundred of lines of code in the company of debugging, I can't prevent myself from excessively re-edit my previous code. As I go back and forth the lines, and inbetween py files, I am constantly distracted by the previous code I wrote, to which I am over stimulant to edit.Constantly changing spots of the code which is already debugged and working, I disturbingly and frequently break my projects.

What I am looking for in VSCode (or if there is another IDE suggestion where I can work on multiple py files with a good layout

Is it possible to lock some functions I finished; in other words, make the code partially read-only so that I would't unnecessarily make amendments to my code.

Thank you.

CodePudding user response：

Use git

Git makes it harder to make more edits to your code, therefore making it harder to make edits. You can start off by opening a folder with VSCode. If you do not have git you can install git with sudo apt update and sudo apt install git. Then type git init. This will initiate git in your folder. You will see a green U next to your files. Then type git add . this will add your changes. Then type git commit -m "*Enter message*" this will stage your changes. Then finally type git push to add it to your repository.

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