I use VS Code for my Visual Studio Magazine articles and have customized my environment to do this in HTML files, but I've always wanted quick-hit macros to automate tedious tasks. That's "quick hit" ...

The Visual Studio Code product itself ships under a standard Microsoft product license, as it has a small percentage of Microsoft-specific customizations. It’s free despite the commercial license.

VS Code 1.100 adds support for instructions and prompt files for Copilot Chat and speeds up edits in agent mode and in Next Edit Suggestions.