microsoft visual studio code key bindings

I am going to give you the complete answer here on how to switch Eclipse key bindings to the ones you are used to in Visual Studio.įirst follow the instructions in this Stack Overflow answer: How to Install Visual Studio Key Bindings in Eclipse (Helios onwards) You have to install software, remove settings then still modify stuff.

So they immediately google something like 'X key bindings for Y' and they usually get an answer, since developers switching IDEs and preferring one in particular is quite a common situation.

I showed you the most common and handy shortcuts for daily tasks, but of course there are a lot of more, you can see them opening the command pallete (CTRL + SHIFT + P) and typing “Keyboard” will show you the option “Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts”, this will open the keybindings.json file that has all the available shortcuts for VSC a description and depending of your keyboard layout, an assistive message.The first thing that strikes anyone starting to use another IDE than the one they are used to is that all the key bindings are wrong. Visual Studio Code share most of common shortcuts with other editors such as Sublime and Atom, so if you are new to VSC do not worry about it.

ALT + UP/DOWN ARROW - Move current line up/down.

CTRL + D - Find and change occurrences.

CTRL + F - search for a given word/sentence (Alt + C will match case, Alt + W will match the whole word, and Alt + R you can use regular expression).

This shortcuts are awesome to work quickly inside extensive files (and for sure on small ones).

F5 - Start debug (Node, VSC Extensions, and.(Ctrl + Shift + E explorer view, Ctrl + Shift + F search whole project, Ctrl + Shift + G git options, Ctrl + Shift + D debug options, Ctrl + Shift + X extensions panel). This shortcuts will help you to operate over VSC.

Microsoft visual studio code key bindings