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VS Code 🗒️

Visual Studio Code is my primary text editor. I occasionally use JetBrains and I previously used Atom, Sublime, and Textmate.

Notes​

11/26/21 - added Visual Studio Code (& Insiders) to Ovid and need to make some notes as I get along.

Extensions​

others​

  • Atom One Dark Theme ( Mahmoud Ali )
  • Azure Repos ( Microsoft )
  • C/C++ ( Microsoft )
  • C/C++ Extension Pack ( Microsoft )
  • C/C++ Themes ( Microsoft )
  • ChatGPT - Genie AI
  • CMake ( twxs )
  • CMake Tools ( Microsoft )
  • Code Spell Checker ( Street Side Software )
  • Community Material Theme ( equinusocio )
  • CSV to Markdown Table ( Machiore )
  • Debugger for Firefox ( Firefox Dev Tools )
  • Deno ( deno.land )
  • Dev Containers ( Microsoft )
  • Docker ( Microsoft )
  • Edit csv ( janisdd )
  • EditorConfig ( editorconfig )
  • ESLint ( Microsoft )
  • Figma for VS Code ( Figma )
  • GitHub Codespaces ( GitHub )
  • GitHub CoPilot ( GitHub )
  • GitHub CoPilot Experimental ( GitHub )
  • GitHub CoPilot Nightly ( GitHub )
  • GitHub Markdown Preview ( Matt Bierner )
  • GitHub Theme ( GitHub )
  • GitLens ( GitKraken )
  • Go ( Go Team at Google )
  • Go Template Support ( jinlimig2 )
  • Grammerly ( Rahul Kadyan )
  • Gutenberg Highlights ( chrisrhymes )
  • HMTL-validate
  • IntelliCode ( Microsoft )
  • IntelliCode API Usage ( Microsoft )
  • isort ( Microsoft )
  • JavaScript and TypeScript Nightly ( Microsoft )
  • JavaScript Debugger Nightly ( Microsoft )
  • JSON Validate ( rioj7 )
  • Jupyter ( Microsoft )
  • Jupyter Cell Tags ( Microsoft )
  • Jupyter Slide Show ( Microsoft )
  • Live Preview ( Microsoft )
  • Live Share ( Microsoft )
  • Markdown Checkbox ( Matt Bierner )
  • Markdown Emoji ( Matt Bierner )
  • Markdown Footnotes ( Matt Bierner )
  • Markdown Preview GitHub Styling ( Matt Bierner )
  • Markdown Preview Mermaid ( Matt Bierner )
  • Markdown Preview VS Code Highlighter ( Matt Bierner )
  • Markdown YAML Preview ( Matt Bierner )
  • Markdownlint ( David Anson )
  • Markmap ( Gerald Liu )
  • Material Theme ( Equinusocio )
  • Material Theme Light ( Equinusocio )
  • md-graph ( Ian J Sikes )
  • MDX ( unified )
  • One Dark Pro ( binaryify )
  • Partial Diff ( Ryuichi Inagaki )
  • PHP Debug ( Xdebug )
  • PHP Intelephense ( Ben Mewburn )
  • Prettier ( Prettier )
  • Pylance ( Microsoft )
  • Python ( Microsoft )
  • Python Debugger ( Microsoft )
  • Rainbow CSV ( mechatroner )
  • React ( Microsoft )
  • React Native ( Microsoft )
  • Remote Explorer ( Microsoft )
  • Remote SSH ( Microsoft )
  • Remote SSH: Editing ( Microsoft )
  • Stylelint ( Stylelint )
  • Rust Analyzer ( The Rust Programming Language )
  • Sunburst Theme ( gerane )
  • Table Editor ( sswatson )
  • Tailwind CSS ( Tailwind Labs )
  • Transmit ( Fabio Spaminato )
  • 🔥 Wikpedia Hyperlinker ( windhamdavid 👈🏻 )
  • WordPress Block Markup ( Carolina Nymark )
  • WordPress Hooks IntelliSense ( John Billion )
  • WordPress Syntax Highlighting ( Matthias Hunt )
  • VIM ( vscodevim )
  • YAML ( Red Hat )

CoPilot​

https://github.com/github/copilot-docs/blob/main/docs/visualstudiocode/gettingstarted.md#getting-started-with-github-copilot-in-visual-studio-code

Ctrl+Enter. GitHub Copilot will open a new tab and suggest multiple options

Keyboard Shortcuts​

  • unassigned shortcuts available at aka.ms/vscodekeybindings

General​

⇧⌘P, F1 (^) Show Command Palette
⌘P Quick Open, Go to File...
⇧⌘N (^) New window/instance
⌘W (^) Close window/instance
⌘, (^) User Settings
⌘K ⌘S (^) Keyboard Shortcuts

Basic editing​

⌘X (^) Cut line (empty selection)
⌘C (^) Copy line (empty selection)
⌥↓ / ⌥↑ (^) Move line down/up
⇧⌥↓ / ⇧⌥↑ (^) Copy line down/up
⇧⌘K (^) Delete line
⌘Enter / ⇧⌘Enter (^) Insert line below/above
⇧⌘\ (^) Jump to matching bracket
⌘] / ⌘[ (^) Indent/outdent line
Home / End (^) Go to beginning/end of line
⌘↑ / ⌘↓ (^) Go to beginning/end of file
⌃PgUp / ⌃PgDn (^) Scroll line up/down
⌘PgUp /⌘PgDn (^) Scroll page up/down
⌥⌘[ / ⌥⌘] Fold/unfold region
⌘K ⌘[ / ⌘K ⌘] (^) Fold/unfold all subregions
⌘K ⌘ 0 / ⌘K ⌘J (^) Fold/unfold all regions
⌘K ⌘C (^) Add line comment
⌘K ⌘U (^) Remove line comment
⌘/ (^) Toggle line comment
⇧⌥A (^) Toggle block comment
⌥Z Toggle word wrap

Multi-cursor and selection​

⌥ + click (^) Insert cursor
⌥⌘↑ (^) Insert cursor above
⌥⌘↓ (^) Insert cursor below
⌘U (^) Undo last cursor operation
⇧⌥I (^) Insert cursor at end of each line selected
⌘L (^) Select current line
⇧⌘L (^) Select all occurrences of current selection
⌘F2 (^) Select all occurrences of current word
⌃⇧⌘→ / ← (^) Expand / shrink selection
⇧⌥ + drag mouse (^) Column (box) selection
⇧⌥⌘↑ / ↓ Column (box) selection up/down
⇧⌥⌘← / → (^) Column (box) selection left/right
⇧⌥⌘PgUp (^) Column (box) selection page up
⇧⌥⌘PgDn (^) Column (box) selection page down

Search and replace​

⌘F (^) Find
⌥⌘F (^) Replace
⌘G / ⇧⌘G (^) Find next/previous
⌥Enter Select all occurrences of Find match
⌘D (^) Add selection to next Find match
⌘K ⌘D (^) Move last selection to next Find match

Rich languages editing​

⌃Space, ⌘I (^) Trigger suggestion
⇧⌘Space (^) Trigger parameter hints
⇧⌥F (^) Format document
⌘K ⌘F (^) Format selection
F12 (^) Go to Definition
⌥F12 (^) Peek Definition
⌘K F12 (^) Open Definition to the side
⌘. (^) Quick Fix
⇧F12 (^) Show References
F2 (^) Rename Symbol
⌘K ⌘X (^) Trim trailing whitespace
⌘K M Change file language

⌘T Show all Symbols
⌃G (^) Go to Line...
⌘P (^) Go to File...
⇧⌘O (^) Go to Symbol...
⇧⌘M (^) Show Problems panel
F8 / ⇧F8 (^) Go to next/previous error or warning
⌃⇧Tab (^) Navigate editor group history
⌃- / ⌃⇧- (^) Go back/forward
⌃⇧M (^) Toggle Tab moves focus

Editor management​

⌘W (^) Close editor
⌘K F (^) Close folder
⌘\ (^) Split editor
⌘ 1 / ⌘2 / ⌘ (^3) Focus into 1 st, 2nd, 3rd editor group
⌘K ⌘← / ⌘K ⌘→ (^) Focus into previous/next editor group
⌘K ⇧⌘← / ⌘K ⇧⌘→ Move editor left/right
⌘K ← / ⌘K → (^) Move active editor group

File management​

⌘N (^) New File
⌘O (^) Open File...
⌘S (^) Save
⇧⌘S (^) Save As...
⌥⌘S (^) Save All
⌘W (^) Close
⌘K ⌘W (^) Close All
⇧⌘T (^) Reopen closed editor
⌘K Enter (^) Keep preview mode editor open
⌃Tab / ⌃⇧Tab (^) Open next / previous
⌘K P (^) Copy path of active file
⌘K R (^) Reveal active file in Finder
⌘K O (^) Show active file in new window/instance

Display​

⌃⌘F (^) Toggle full screen
⌥⌘ (^0) Toggle editor layout (horizontal/vertical)
⌘= / ⇧⌘- (^) Zoom in/out
⌘B (^) Toggle Sidebar visibility
⇧⌘E Show Explorer / Toggle focus
⇧⌘F (^) Show Search
⌃⇧G (^) Show Source Control
⇧⌘D (^) Show Debug
⇧⌘X (^) Show Extensions
⇧⌘H (^) Replace in files
⇧⌘J (^) Toggle Search details
⇧⌘U Show Output panel
⇧⌘V (^) Open Markdown preview
⌘K V (^) Open Markdown preview to the side
⌘K Z (^) Zen Mode (Esc Esc to exit)

Debug​

F9 (^) Toggle breakpoint
F5 (^) Start/Continue
F11 / ⇧F11 (^) Step into/ out
F10 (^) Step over
⇧F5 (^) Stop
⌘K ⌘I (^) Show hover

Integrated terminal​

⌃ (^) Show integrated terminal ⌃⇧ Create new terminal
⌘C (^) Copy selection
⌘↑ / ↓ (^) Scroll up/down
PgUp / PgDn (^) Scroll page up/down
⌘Home / End (^) Scroll to top/bottom