I had accidentally enabled a different mode for the tab key. Fixed it by pressing Cmd+Shift+M (for Mac), or Ctrl+M (for Windows). From the Visual Studio Code Keybinding docs: | Key | Command | Command id | | Ctrl + M | Toggle Use of Tab Key for Setting Focus | editor.action.toggleTabFocusMode | The current … Read more
What is a workspace? A project that consists of one or more root folders, along with all of the Visual Studio Code configurations that belong to that project. These configurations include: settings that should be applied when that project is open recommended extensions for the project (useful when sharing the configuration files with colleagues) project-specific … Read more
You can enable whitespace trimming at file save time from settings: Open Visual Studio Code User Settings (menu File → Preferences → Settings → User Settings tab). Click the icon in the top-right part of the window. This will open a document. Add a new “files.trimTrailingWhitespace”: true setting to the User Settings document if it’s … Read more
On Windows, you hold Ctrl+Alt while pressing the up ↑ or down ↓ arrow keys to add cursors. Mac: ⌥ Opt+⌘ Cmd+↑/↓ Linux: Shift+Alt+↑/↓ Note that third-party software may interfere with these shortcuts, preventing them from working as intended (particularly Intel’s HD Graphics software on Windows; see comments for more details). If you experience this … Read more
You can configure patterns to hide files and folders from the explorer and searches. Open VS User Settings (Main menu: File > Preferences > Settings). This will open the setting screen. Search for files:exclude in the search at the top. Configure the User Setting with new glob patterns as needed. In this case add this … Read more
Using Go to File… which is under the Go menu or using keyboard shortcut: On Windows Ctrl+p or Ctrl+e On macOS Cmd ⌘+p On Linux Ctrl+p or Ctrl+e Then type the file name. Also be sure to checkout that you can set your own keybindings and that there are cheatsheets available for Windows, macOS and … Read more
While there are a lot of modal toggles and navigation shortcuts for VS Code, there isn’t one specifically for “move from editor to terminal, and back again”. However you can compose the two steps by overloading the key and using the when clause. Solution You can achieve the desired effect by adding the appropriate settings … Read more
The keyboard shortcut commands are Go Forward and Go Back. On Windows: Alt + ← … navigate back Alt + → … navigate forward On Mac: Ctrl + – … navigate back Ctrl + Shift + – … navigate forward On Ubuntu Linux: Ctrl + Alt + – .., navigate back Ctrl + Shift + … Read more
Folding has been rolled out and is now implemented since Visual Studio Code version 0.10.11. There are these keyboard shortcuts available: Fold folds the innermost uncollapsed region at the cursor: Ctrl + Shift + [ on Windows and Linux ⌥ + ⌘ + [ on macOS Unfold unfolds the collapsed region at the cursor: Ctrl … Read more
By default, Visual Studio Code will try to guess your indentation options depending on the file you open. You can turn off indentation guessing via “editor.detectIndentation”: false. You can customize this easily via these three settings for Windows in menu File → Preferences → User Settings and for Mac in menu Code → Preferences → … Read more