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What are your favorite VS Code shortcuts?

Madza on September 25, 2020

Some of my favorite VS Code shortcuts would be: Open integrated terminal: Ctrl+` Toggle comments: Ctrl+/ Quick Open, Go to File: Ctrl+P Show Comma...

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John Peters • Sep 25 '20 • Edited

Ctrl+Shift+K Every day!

Delete Line Ctrl+Shift+K editor.action.deleteLines

Other favorites

Add Line Comment Ctrl+K Ctrl+C editor.action.addCommentLine
Remove Line Comment Ctrl+K Ctrl+U editor.action.removeCommentLine
Undo Ctrl+Z undo
Redo Ctrl+Y redo
Find Ctrl+F actions.find
Go Back Alt+Left workbench.action.navigateBack
Go Forward Alt+Right workbench.action.navigateForward

Memorizing

Show All Symbols Ctrl+T workbench.action.showAllSymbols
Toggle Zen Mode Ctrl+K Z workbench.action.toggleZenMode
Toggle Sidebar Visibility Ctrl+B workbench.action.toggleSidebarVisibility
Toggle Integrated Terminal Ctrl+` workbench.action.terminal.toggleTerminal
Focus Next Search Result F4 search.action.focusNextSearchResult

Roberto Tonino • Sep 25 '20 • Edited

I recently discovered the "fold" and "unfold" commands that allow you to open/close groups of parenthesis. Before I had to go next to the line numbers and toggle the groups with the mouse.

Command IDs:

"editor.fold"
"editor.unfold"

I bound them with CTRL + SHIFT + ' (for fold) and CTRL + SHIFT + ì (for unfold)

Benjioe • Sep 26 '20

I made thats extension if you are interested.

Roberto Tonino • Sep 26 '20 • Edited

Those bottom left buttons definitely need a keybinding 😁

Madza • Sep 26 '20

Looks interesting 🤩

Saurabh Sharma • Sep 25 '20

Alt+shift+i it adds a cursor on every selected line.

Madza • Sep 25 '20

Good one, as well 👍

scroung720 • Sep 26 '20 • Edited

The answers of this post are pure gold.

My two cents:
Focus editor - CTRL + 1
Split terminal - CTRL + SHIFT + 5
Zen mode - CTRL + k z
Explore files - CTRL + SHIFT + E
Toggle left sidebar - CTRL + B
Find identifier references: F12