9 Tricks for Working with Visual Studio Code

Hello, Habr! Today we selected 9 of the most interesting life hacks for working with Visual Studio Code. Among them are useful keyboard shortcuts and functional widgets. Details under the cut!



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1. Interactive Playground

In the lower right corner of the Welcome page there is a link to the Interactive playground , where you can interactively try out the features of VS Code. Or you can go there through Help> Interactive Playground .

2. Go to the character in the file

Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + O



You can group characters by type by adding a colon, @:.

3. Move the line up or down

Keyboard shortcut: Alt + Up or Alt + Down

4. Editing Side by Side

Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl + \

If you wish, you can create new groups of editors and move freely between them.

5. Switch between multiple editors

Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl + 1 , Ctrl + 2 , Ctrl + 3

6. Go to the beginning / end of the file

Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + Home and Ctrl + End

7. Switch sidebar

Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl + B

8. IntelliSense

Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl + Space

Using the “Tips” widget, you can view the available methods, parameter hints, brief documentation, etc.

9. Hotkeys