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Most Useful Visual Studio Code Shortcuts To Improve Your Productivity

Yogesh Chavan on September 25, 2021

Visual Studio Code is the most widely used and most loved code editor for application development. So in this article, we will see some of the wid...
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Dimitar Pramatarov

Crtl + x delete the line , also same in copied.

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Yogesh Chavan

Yes, it's actually performs the cut operation. Thanks for mentioning it.

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Khorne07

I was about to mention that. Actually to delete a line the command is
Ctrl + Shift + K.
By the way, thanks for sharing 👌

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Yogesh Chavan

You're right. But it requires extra key press but instead ctrl + x does the same work and is quicker.

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Khorne07

Absolutely yes. In the end depends on if you need to keep previous copied staffs on the clipboard or not.

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Ash

As someone who just transitioned from a Windows machine to a Mac... this post couldn't have come at a better time. Thank you for the write up! 🤖

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Yogesh Chavan

Glad to hear that this post was helpful to you. Thank you 🙂

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Kaleem Clarkson

Wow! The open and close tab on left is a game changer 👏🏾🙏🏾🙌🏾

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Yogesh Chavan

Thank you @kaleemclarkson 🙂

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Mentori

you forgot "Ctrl+/" to comment a line instantly, also "alt+shift+f" to format your code

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Yogesh Chavan • Edited

Hi @mentoraliu , thanks for reading. I have already included the comment shortcut. You might have missed it.

I don't use shortcut to format code but I use prettier VS Code extension which formats code automatically when the file is saved.

Check out my this article to understand how to do it.

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Sachin Chaurasiya

Thank you @myogeshchavan97 for sharing this.

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Yogesh Chavan

Thanks @sachinchaurasiya 🙂

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Prabhu

Nice

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Yogesh Chavan

Thank you 🙂

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Amir-cahyadi

Useful great 👍

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Yogesh Chavan

Thank you 🙂

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Josefine Schfr

So helpful - Thanks for putting this together! :)

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Yogesh Chavan

Glad you found it helpful 🙂

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Robson Muniz

Hey DEV,
Most Useful Visual Studio Code Shortcuts To Improve Your Productivity?
🤩Wow, Great content!!
I just 💜loved it.
Thanks for sharing it!🙏

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Yogesh Chavan

Glad you liked it. Thank you

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Scott Astatine

I prefer vim key bindings!

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