Hot Keys on Mac

Since I switched over to Mac, Hot keys(Shortcut keys) are confusing and easy to forget. To stop making mistakes, here I wrote a list of frequently used combinations of keys.

Visual Studio Code

Integrated Terminal

• Command + `: Toggle the integrated terminal
• Control + Shift + `: Create a new terminal instance
• Command + Backspace: Kill terminal instance

Run commands

• Command + P: Go to File
• Command + Shift + P: Open the Command Palette

Tabs

• Command + T: Create a new tab
• Command + W: Close tab

Search

• Command + F: Find in the current file
• Command + Shift + F: Replace in files
• Command + Option + Enter: Replace all occurrences with the given expression across all files
• Command + D: select the next occurrence

Change occurrences

• Command + Shift + L: Change all occurrences in a file
• Command + Shift + H: Change all occurrences in all files

Move the cursor

• Option + Left Arrow: Move the cursor to the previous word
• Option + Right Arrow: Move the cursor to the next word
• Command + Left Arrow: Move the cursor to the beginning of the line
• Command + Right Arrow: Move the cursor to the end of the line

Terminal

• Command + K: Clear Terminal

Rectangle

• Control + Option + Left Arrow: Move the current window to the left half
• Control + Option + Right Arrow: Snap the current window to the right half

System

• Control + Command + F: Toggle full-screen mode
• Control + Left Arrow: Move to the full-screen app on the left side
• Control + Right Arrow: Move to the full-screen ap on the right side

ChatGPT

• Option + Space: Toggles chatting bar
• Command + Space: Spotlight Search

Chrome

• Option + Command + I: Toggle Devtools
• Command + R: Refresh the page(normal refresh)
• Command + Shift + R: Refresh the page(hard refresh) - The key clears the browser cache.