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Shirshandu Bhattacharjee
Shirshandu Bhattacharjee

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Custom Shortcuts in VSCode

Shortcuts make our development so easy.

I am going to tell you how do you enable shortcuts in one of our favorite editors.

When I build UI, I am a big fan of console messages for checking responses/debugging.

So I have customised cmd + shift + l = console.log('');

How do I achieve that?

Open VS Code and Search - Keyboard shortcuts (JSON)

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Write your custom keybindings as below

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Similarly, you can add n number of Objects and assign unique keystrokes.

[Example gist (https://gist.githubusercontent.com/shirshandu/f85149bd2014eaaff623ae58e7a62ee3/raw/295a8825dbfbb35a58abf63eb2501000eaee33fd/shortcuts.json)

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