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Table of Visual Studio Code (Windows) keyboard

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shortcuts
General
By Zeynel Abidin Öztürk -  17 months ago - in Shortcuts
Basic editing

Navigation

Search and replace

Multi-cursor and
selection

Rich languages editing

Editor management

File management

Display

Debug

Integrated terminal

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Program information
General (6 shortcuts) − Program name: Visual Studio Code
(Windows) (Developer tools)

Visual Studio Code is a source code editor

developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux
and macOS. It has features such as
debugging, Git control, syntax highlighting,
smart code completion, snippets and
refactoring. It's free and open-source,
however official download is under a
proprietary license.

Web page: https://code.visualstudio.com

Shortcut count: 135

Ctrl + ↑ Shift + P F1 Show Command Palette

then F1

Ctrl + P Quick Open, Go to File

Ctrl + ↑ Shift + N New window/instance

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Ctrl + ↑ Shift + W Close window/instance Featured shortcut

Ctrl + =
Ctrl + , User Settings
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Ctrl + K then Ctrl +

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Ctrl + ↑ Shift + \ Jump to matching bracket
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Ctrl + ] Indent/outdent line

or Ctrl + [

Home Go to beginning of line

End Go to end of line

 Ctrl + Home Go to beginning of file

Ctrl + End Go to end of file

Ctrl + ↑ ↓ Scroll line up/down

Alt + Page Up Scroll page up

Alt + Page Down Scroll page down

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Ctrl + ↑ Shift + [ Fold (collapse) region

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Ctrl + ↑ Shift + ] Unfold (uncollapse) region

Ctrl + K then Ctrl + Fold (collapse) all subregions

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Ctrl + K then Ctrl + Fold (collapse) all regions

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Ctrl + K then Ctrl + Unfold (uncollapse) all regions

Ctrl + K then Ctrl + Add line comment Gigabyte Z390 debug

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Ctrl + K then Ctrl + Remove line comment

Ctrl + / Toggle line comment Stop Chrome from taking

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↑ Shift + Alt + A Toggle block comment

Alt + Z Toggle word wrap

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Navigation (10 shortcuts) − report this ad

Ctrl + T Show all symbols

Ctrl + G Go to line

Ctrl + P Go to file

Ctrl + ↑ Shift + O Go to symbol

Ctrl + ↑ Shift + M Show Problems panel

F8 Go to next error or warning

↑ Shift + F8 Go to previous error or warning

Ctrl + ↑ Shift + Navigate editor group history

Tab

Alt + ← → Go back / forward

Ctrl + M Toggle Tab moves focus

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Search and replace (10 shortcuts) −

Ctrl + F Find

Ctrl + H Replace

F3 Find next

↑ Shift + F3 Find previous

Alt + Enter Select all occurences of Find match

Ctrl + D Add selection to next Find match

Ctrl + K then Ctrl + Move last selection to next Find match

Alt + C Toggle case-sensitive

Alt + R Toggle regex

Alt + W Toggle whole word

Multi-cursor and selection (13 shortcuts) −

Alt + Insert cursor

Ctrl + Alt + ↑ ↓ Insert cursor above / below

Ctrl + U Undo last cursor operation

↑ Shift + Alt + I Insert cursor at end of each line selected

Ctrl + I Select current line

Ctrl + ↑ Shift + L Select all occurrences of current selection

Ctrl + F2 Select all occurrences of current word

↑ Shift + Alt + → Expand selection

↑ Shift + Alt + ← Shrink selection

↑ Shift + Alt + Column (box) selection

or Ctrl + ↑ Shift +

Alt + ← ↑ → ↓

Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Column (box) selection page up

Page Up

Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Column (box) selection page down

Page Down

Rich languages editing (12 shortcuts) −

Ctrl + Space Trigger suggestion

Ctrl + ↑ Shift + Trigger parameter hints

Space

↑ Shift + Alt + F Format document

Ctrl + K then Ctrl + Format selection

 F

F12 Go to Definition

Alt + F12 Peek Definition

Ctrl + K then F12 12 Open Definition to the side

Ctrl + . Quick Fix

↑ Shift + F12 Show References

F2 Rename Symbol

Ctrl + K then Ctrl + Trim trailing whitespace

Ctrl + K then M M Change file language

Editor management (10 shortcuts) −

Ctrl + F4 then Ctrl + Close editor

Ctrl + K F Close folder

Ctrl + \ Split editor

Ctrl + 1 Focus into first group

Ctrl + 2 Focus into second group

Ctrl + 3 Focus into third group

Ctrl + K then Ctrl + Focus into previous/next editor group

← →

Ctrl + Shift + Move editor left

Page Up

Ctrl + Shift + Move editor right

Page Down

Ctrl + K then ← → ht Move active editor group

File management (14 shortcuts) −

Ctrl + N New File

Ctrl + O Open File

Ctrl + S Save

Ctrl + ↑ Shift + S Save As

Ctrl + K S Save All

Ctrl + F4 Close

Ctrl + K then Ctrl + Close All

Ctrl + ↑ Shift + T Reopen closed editor

Ctrl + K Enter Keep preview mode editor open

Ctrl + Tab Open next

Ctrl + ↑ Shift + Open previous

Tab

Ctrl + K then P P Copy path of active file

Ctrl + K then R R Reveal active file in Explorer

Ctrl + K then O O Show active file in new window/instance

Display (16 shortcuts) −

F11 Toggle full screen

↑ Shift + Alt + 1 Toggle editor layout (horizontal/vertical)

Ctrl + = Zoom in

Ctrl + - Zoom out

Ctrl + B Toggle Sidebar visibility

Ctrl + ↑ Shift + E Show Explorer / Toggle focus

Ctrl + ↑ Shift + F Show Search

Ctrl + ↑ Shift + G Show Source Control

Ctrl + ↑ Shift + D Show Debug

Ctrl + ↑ Shift + X Show Extensions

Ctrl + ↑ Shift + H Replace in files

Ctrl + ↑ Shift + J Toggle Search details

Ctrl + ↑ Shift + U Show Output panel

Ctrl + ↑ Shift + V Open Markdown preview

Ctrl + K V Open Markdown preview to the side

Ctrl + K Z Zen Mode (Esc Esc to exit)

Debug (7 shortcuts) −

F9 Toggle breakpoint

F5 Start/Continue

↑ Shift + F5 Stop

F11 Step into

↑ Shift + F11 Step out

F10 Step over

Ctrl + K then Ctrl + Show hover

Integrated terminal (9 shortcuts) −

Ctrl + ` Show integrated terminal

Ctrl + ↑ Shift + ` Create new terminal

Ctrl + C Copy selection

Ctrl + V Paste into active terminal

Ctrl + ↑ ↓ Scroll up/down

Shift + Page Up Scroll page up

Shift + Page Down Scroll page down

Ctrl + Home Scroll to top

 Ctrl + End Scroll to bottom

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hmsolomon says 5 months ago

MS Visual Studio Code needs a keyboard shortcut for erasing the terminal window
output area. Now we have click on the trash can, "Kill Terminal", to get a clean slate.

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