Visual Studio Code keyboard Shortcuts helps developers maximize their productivity by allowing them to work faster and more efficiently. Here I am listing down all the keyboard shortcuts and cheats of Visual Studio Code editor for Windows, Mac and Linux Operating systems. Give a shot.

Visual Studio Code – and the caption is Code Editing Redefined

It does exactly what it quotes. I can say this visual studio code is a combination of classic lightweight text editor and Microsoft visual studio IDE.

It’s free, open-source and cross-platform.

Most of the developers around the world started using Visual Studio Code. It’s good to know some useful keyboard shortcuts for this beautiful editor.

The good thing is if you are familiar with other text editors like sublime, vim, atom, eclipse etc. You can install corresponding editor keyboard bindings through extensions. there are lots of extensions available for keyboard mappings

Open Visual Studio Code and

Formatting Code in Visual Studio can be done using the Keyboard shortcuts as below On Windows Shift + Alt + F On Mac Shift + Option + F On Ubuntu Ctrl + Shift + I. Install Visual Studio Code on macOS. Install the C extension for VS Code. You can install the C/C extension by searching for 'c' in the Extensions view (Ctrl+Shift+X). Ensure Clang is installed #. There are two ways to print from within visual studio code if you are using vb.net. Create a text file and save it using the save dialog. Have notepad as part of the process so you can then print from notepad. If you want rich text you must create a graphics document and print the graphics document.

Navigate to File->Preferences->Keymap Extensions install your choice of keymappings.

You can press Ctrl+Shift+P or F1 (windows and Linux users) and ⇧⌘P or F1 (Mac users) to open the command Palette and search for required keyboard shortcuts.

And also we can add our own keyboard bindings, at the end of this post I will explain how to change keyboard shortcuts for visual studio code. We can customize bindings for language types also.

General Shortcuts:

Basic Editing Shortcuts:

Navigation Shortcuts:

Search and replace Shortcuts:

Multi-cursor and selection Shortcuts:

Rich languages editing Shortcuts:

Editor management Shortcuts:

File management Shortcuts:

Display Shortcuts:

Debug Shortcuts:

Integrated terminal Shortcuts:

Changing Keyboard Shortcuts for Visual Studio Code:

To change the keyboard shortcuts for visual studio code follow the below steps

Open Visual Studio Code and navigate to File>>Preferences>>Keyboard Shortcut

Click on edit keybindings.json You will see two files Default bindings and keybindings.json side by side as shown below.

And now click on define keybindings

I am adding “Ctrl+a” shortcut to open a file by adding below json setting in keybindings.json file

And property “when” is optional. For instance, The new command to open a file Ctrl+a applicable only when language is typescript.

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Now Ctrl+a and Ctrl+o both can be used to open a file (If the language is typescript).

Happy Coding….

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Editor behaviors can be set to allow code to be formatted as it is written. These actions are set under Visual Studio > Preferences > Text Editor > Behavior, and some of the more commonly used functions are described below:

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• Matching closing braces can be added automatically to code when creating new classes, methods, or properties. When this option is selected, typing { will automatically add }.
• On-the-fly code formatting is triggered by character presses, such as semi-colon or braces, which will emulate the formatting preferences that are set.
• You can also choose to format the file when saving it, which allows the writing of code as desired and leaves the IDE responsible for formatting code as set by existing preferences.
• Indentation can be set to None, Auto, or Smart. These do the following:
  • None - sets the caret to the start of the next line
  • Auto - sets the caret to the same column on the next line
  • Smart - indents on the following line based on the code
• Word-breaking behavior differs between OSes, and for navigation purposes, the text editor needs to know where words begin or end. The formatting can be set to Unix or Windows.

You can also set formatting rules for XML, CSS, HTML, and JSON.

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