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10 Visual Studio Code Tricks To Unleash Your Productivity

Gedalya Krycer on December 22, 2020

Recently updated to include Windows/Linux keyboard shortcuts. Overview VS Code is a fantastic program with hundreds of features that ma...
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Ana María Díaz

Also add vim extension!!

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Gedalya Krycer

I have heard great things about VIM. I will certainly check it out, thank you for the suggestion.

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Sai Sandeep Vaddi

The VSCode VIM extension is unbearably slow for me. Sometimes I have to wait for characters to appear after typing.

After trying couple of times, I finally gave up.

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Aditya Prasad Dhal

for 3.multi-line editing, in windows we can use <ctrl> + D which is much easier to press than the above mentioned key

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Gedalya Krycer

Nice! Thank you for sharing that alternative.

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Gedalya Krycer

Thank you for that feedback, @hakymreality and I agree! I have just updated the post to also include Linux/Windows keyboard shortcuts and a new resource section at the end that has more OS-specific shortcuts from VS Code. Happy coding!

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Nasim Uddin

Wow, terminal splitting is cool. Didn't knew about that. Thanks

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Gedalya Krycer

It’s such a helpful feature. :) You can split into more then two as well. I believe this shortcut will also work in other area of VS Code, but I mainly use it in the terminal section.

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Doron Zehavi

Very Helpful, bookmarked. Thank you

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Gedalya Krycer

You are welcome!

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Auwalu Hamza

Thanks 👍

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Gedalya Krycer

No problem!

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Misha Osinovskiy

very nice tips - thank you!

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Madza

didn't know #10, will be handy 😉

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Amanullah Menjli

Thanks very helpful !

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Nirmal Patel

Would you mind telling what tool you use to record these videos? Especially interested in showing of keys pressed in the popover toasts.

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Gedalya Krycer • Edited

For sure! I recently discovered the gifox.io app and used it for this post. It lets you do full-screen recordings for up to 10 seconds.

In the capture menu settings, you can enable the clicks and keyboard presses.
gifox capture settings

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aneenajohn

Much needed. Thanks!

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Gedalya Krycer

You're welcome, happy coding!

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PHAT DANG MINH

Thanks, so help in code.

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Gedalya Krycer

Awesome!