Keyboard shortcuts
Accessing common commands quickly
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Keyboard shortcuts
Everything you can do with a menu and a mouse has a keyboard shortcut. Menu+mouse is easier to learn, but keyboard shortcuts will make you about 30% more productive once you master them.
Rule of thumb: If you use the same mouse+menu commands over and over, learn the keyboard shortcut instead. Try to learn a shortcut or two each week.
I’ve highlighted my most-used keyboard shortcuts in the official cheatsheets from VSCode:
- Cheatsheet for Mac
- Cheatsheet for Windows if using WSL.
- Cheatsheet for Linux if using VirtualBox.
When you see, e.g., Ctrl+X, that means hold down the Control key and then press X.