Speed up your development flow by utilising common keyboards shortcuts in VS Code. Once you get a hang of a few shortcuts, you can deepdive into the complete list of all macos keyboard shortcuts for VS Code.
Find selected text
- all instances:
⇧⌘L - the next instance:
⌘D
Multi-cursor selection
- above the current line:
⌥⌘↑ - below the current line:
⌥⌘↓
Select text around cursor
- Up:
⇧↑ - Down:
⇧↓ - Left:
⇧← - Right:
⇧→
Code folding
- Fold current selection:
⌥⌘[ - Unfold current selection:
⌥⌘] - Unfold all code in file:
⌘K⌘J
Split screen display
- vertical:
⌘\ - horizontal:
⌥⌘0(split vertical first)




Top comments (1)
Really helpful! I use split screen a lot when building firmware. I was also looking for how to do ⇧⌘L last night lol. Thanks a bunch!