🔥 Visual Studio Code Popular Shortcuts
Master essential VS Code shortcuts that dramatically accelerate programming work to exponentially improve your coding efficiency.
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Ctrl+Shift+P
Show Command Palette
Shows the Command Palette with access to all commands.
🎯 The most important shortcut that serves as a gateway to all commands
💡 Hint: Palette
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Ctrl+P
Quick Open, Go to File…
Opens the Quick Open dialog to quickly navigate to files.
🎯 Instantly navigate between files without interrupting development flow
💡 Hint: Pick file
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Ctrl+S
Save
Saves the current file.
🎯 Safely save your work to prevent code loss
💡 Hint: Save
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Ctrl+F
Find
Searches for text in the current file.
🎯 Quickly find specific locations in code to improve editing efficiency
💡 Hint: Find
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Shift+Alt+↓
Copy line down
Copies the current line down.
🎯 Duplicate lines to significantly reduce time writing similar code
💡 Hint: Shift + down arrow copies line down
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Alt+↓
Move line down
Moves the current line down.
🎯 Efficiently restructure code to accelerate refactoring
💡 Hint: Down arrow moves line down
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Ctrl+/
Toggle line comment
Toggles line comment on/off for the current line.
🎯 Instantly comment out code during debugging and testing
💡 Hint: / = comment character
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Ctrl+G
Go to Line...
Goes to a specific line number.
🎯 Efficiently navigate to error locations and during code reviews
💡 Hint: Go to line
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Ctrl+`
Show integrated terminal
Shows/hides the integrated terminal.
🎯 Seamlessly switch between editor and terminal to improve development efficiency
💡 Hint: Backtick (`) is terminal symbol
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Ctrl+B
Toggle Sidebar visibility
Toggles sidebar visibility.
🎯 Effectively use screen space to focus on coding
💡 Hint: Bar (sidebar)