10 keyboard shortcuts for *complete* beginners

Here's 10 essential keyboard shortcuts for those of you just getting started with VS Code.

[SridTech]

Hands down these two are the best shortcuts in vscode,
1. ALT + SHIFT + down / up arrow to duplicate line
2. ALT + down / up to move the line

[zezeandjr]

10 keyboard shortcuts for complete beginners you ready here we go
#1 Command or Control + B toggles the sidebar
#2 Command J toggles the bottom panel open and close,
#3 Commander or control Shift P opens the command palette where you'll find everything that Visual Studio code can do.
#4 command or control P opens the file quick picker so you can see all of the files in your project and you can quickly get to 1 by typing the name and pressing enter
#5 Command or control shift N. opens an entirely new instance of Visual Studio code.
#6 Command or control N without the shift and that just gives you a new tab.
#7 Command W closes the current tab.
#8 Command or control comma which opens your user settings where you can customize your editor.
#9 Control backtick opens and closes the terminal. Now this might seem like it's just like does the same thing as command J. The difference is that command J just toggles the bottom panel here,
so whatever you selected last is what you'll see when it opens, but with control backtick you always get the terminal
#10 Command or control equals to zoom in on the editor and command or control minus to zoom out.

[georgehammond]

using Mac for someone who works for windows!

[sehbanomer]

when I was looking at the thumbnail, I thought ↓↓↓↓↑↑↑↑↓↓↓ is some sort of hidden command in vscode, similar to ↑↑↓↓←→←→BA

[syllight]

My favorites thus far:

1. Ctrl + C
2. Ctrl + V

[wikd]

Ctrl+shift+T to re-open last closed tab.

[adheeshsecondsago]

I have customized the Ctrl+N to create new file in current focused folder, and Ctrl+Alt+N to create new folder similarly! Tbh helps a lot, better than typing on untitled document 😂

[dyllanusher]

My favorite thus far:
Shift + Alt + F for formatting (you have to specify the formatter.)

[AhmedOmar-ibyn]

ALT + SHIFT + F to format code very useful

[mrmelon]

What about CMD/CTRL + SHIFT + T to the previously closed tabs

[alecclews]

My "Power shortcut" which made life so much easier is <shift><ctl>E : Opens the file explorer

[voidmind]

Nice! Those zoom in and out shortcuts will be handy when trying to explain code in a screen sharing session with colleagues

[starship]

Along with ctrl + ` for the terminal, there is ctrl + 1 to go back to the editor

[Crunchiest]

I never thought there were a shortcut for hiding/showing the file explorer on the side. Finally.

[eccentricOrange]

Ctrl= is actually Ctrl+ dude, because it works with the + from the numeric pad as well.

[themodernmonk]

Please tell me the shortcut for creating a folder, subfolder and file.

[mrhereandthere]

My custom: Ctrl + F11 to toggle console panel in fullscreen

[jonasteixeira]

how to write in several lines and enumerate them ?

example:
var1 =..
var2 = ..
var3 =..
var4 =..

[mo_mo]

Anyone else uses F1 followed by a backspace as file quick picker? Just me?

[deeshansharma]

What's that theme it looks awesome..?