What does the scattered thing on the right side of vscode mean?

The editor will share with you what the scattered dots on the right side of vscode refer to. I hope you will gain something after reading this article. Let's discuss it together.

What is the scattered thing on the right side of vscode?

As shown in the following figure, when you open a text file with VSCode, there will be something scattered on the right, which is vscode's code preview function, called minimap.

If you don't want a code preview, we can turn it off:

Close method: click File-preferences-Settings, search for "editor.minimap.enabled", the default value is tick, we just need to remove the hook.

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