VS Code, changing color theme for variables

Question

in VS Code does anyone know how to change the color theme for variable names for C++. I can change the colors for functions, comments, keywords, but I can't get variables to work. Any help would be great Thanks.

Answer 1

This has changed since the original answer was posted and it is now outdated. As @alex-myers mentioned in the comments, you can use TextMate to target intellisense tokens.

For example:

"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
    "[Visual Studio Dark]": {
        "textMateRules": [
            {
                "scope": "variable.other.local",
                "settings": {
                    "foreground": "#FF0000",
                }
            }
        ]
    }
}

See: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/cpp/colorization-cpp