18 VS Code Tips to Code FASTER

Learn 18 VS Code tips and tricks that will help you write code faster.

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Hey! If you're new to my Channel, I'm Guilherme. Call me Gui. I'm a Minimalist Software Craftsman. What do I do here? I share tips on how to simplify your life as a Developer.

⏲️ CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:33 1. Opening Files
01:47 2. Tab Navigation
02:47 3. Code command in PATH
03:47 4. Zen Mode
04:35 5. Markdown Preview
05:11 6. Rename Symbol
05:42 7. Select instances of a word
07:26 8. Multi line cursor
08:38 9. Fold open brackets
09:09 10. Access to Symbols
09:32 11. Go to definition
09:47 12. Move Code
10:54 13. Minimap
11:17 14. Auto directory create
12:12 15. Focus on sidebar
13:00 16. Split Screen
13:32 17. Terminals
15:31 18. Title Bar color

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[robinheyer]

Bonus shortcuts:
2:20 Ctrl+ PgUp / PgDn -- let's you move the current tab to quickly organize tabs as you like them
3:34 code -r . -- to open the file in the current VS Code window (closing anything else you were working on). I think -a does something nice as well but I forgot.
5:00 / 13:00 Ctrl + K + arrow left / right -- lets you switch editor windows in split screen. (I had to learn this because I'm always opening files on the wrong side)
6:52 While using Ctrl + D if you want to skip the last one selected you can press Ctrl + K + D which will deselect the last one and select the next occurrence. (Also note that Ctrl+D understands context when you don't highlight a word yourself, it will not select text in comments or partial hits)
10:00 Shift + Alt + Arrow up / down -- copy and paste all highlighted code above or below (feels upside down to me)

Ctrl + W -- close current tab
Ctrl + K + W -- close all tabs, even those in other split-screen editors
Ctrl + K + S -- all shortcuts

[AkosLukacs]

8:35 you can just hit "end" while your cursor is at the beginning of the line. Or ctrl + left or right to move between words while you are at multiple lines!

[TonoNamnum]

On 7:45 of the video just do control + right to move one word towards the right no need to find the largest word. You could also enter the end key and it will move towards the end of each line without having to search for the largest word.

[ourjamie]

Vscode profiles. Create profiles for the different type of work. A c# profile, a rust profile a kubernetes cloud profile. You can add and remove extensions from the profiles create a profile from a profile, start with a blank profile on and on you can get clever with direnv and launch code with the profile specific to that folder when you enter it.

[Meryovi]

Thanks, Gui. I was really missing the one for focusing on the file explorer. It will save me a lot of time! 😁

[ЕвгенийБогданович-жэ]

Hi, thanks for the video) and what is your terminal theme/customization?

[brainiac]

What color scheme is this? Looks amazing

[antonmartyniuk]

Great tips.
Luckily I am using Rider 😅

[Megha-fd]

Please create similar video for visual studio too