VSCode Basics

Here are some basic shortcuts you should learn for highly productive source code editing.

🧙 Multiple Selectors

If there’s one shortcut to speed up your coding it’s mastering multiple selectors.

By Mouse Click

VS Code supports multiple cursors for fast simultaneous edits. You can add secondary cursors with ⌥+Click.

By Mouse Drag

You can select multiple selections via a mouse drag by holding down ⇧⌥

Select mutiple instances of a word

⌘D selects the word at the cursor, or the next occurrence of the current selection

Add more cursors

You can also add more cursors with ⇧⌘L, which will add a selection at each occurrence of the current selected text.

💨 Shift/Expanding Selection

Quickly shrink or expand the current selection. Trigger it with ⌃⇧⌘← and ⌃⇧⌘→.

👩‍💻 Code Folding

You can fold regions of source code using the folding icons on the gutter between line numbers and line start.

Shortcuts

These shortcuts will save your wrist some miles:

• Fold ⌥⌘[ folds the innermost uncollapsed region at the cursor.
• Unfold ⌥⌘] unfolds the collapsed region at the cursor.
• Toggle Fold ⌘K then ⌘L folds or unfolds the region at the cursor.
• Fold All ⌘K ⌘0 folds all regions in the editor.
• Unfold All ⌘K ⌘J unfolds all regions in the editor.