VSCode shortcuts to supercharge your development

A cut down list of shortcuts to make your development ‘blazingly fast!’

I recently board a keychron K5 keyboard, which is an absolute joy to use! I thought this was the perfect excuse to improve my ability to navigate VSCode using my keyboard and learn a few more shortcuts.

I block out an hour a week in my schedule just to become more productive with the tools I use. Something I suggest that everyone does, so you ensure you dedicate time just for this.

Here is a cut down list of some less well known and some more well known shortcuts from the official keyboard shortcuts cheatsheet, that I have been checking every morning quickly and making sure I commit to memory.

I think will supercharge anyones development experience if you don’t already know them. (⌘+P is my favourite)

F2: Rename symbol

⌘+F2: Change all occurrences of a word (like above, but gets comments and strings of that word too)

⌥↓ / ⌥↑: Move a line up and down

home/end: Start/end of line

⇧+F12: Show references

⌘+P: Search and open files quickly without navigating through files (great for large projects).

⌃+Space: Suggestions (code-completion)

⌃+`: Show Terminal

F9: Toggle break point

⌘+i: co-pilot

⌘+⇧+k: Delete Line

⌃+- / ⌃+⇧+-: Navigate back/forward

⌘+Enter: Create new line after the one selected.

⌘+.: Quick Fix

⌘+click: Go to definition or open up a clink or file.