

Start typing whatever you wish to do and it will appear in the search results. Absolutely any action you can do with a mouse is actionable through the command palette. One of the most powerful keyboard shortcuts is to open the command palette with ctrl/cmd + shift + p. Just as a note, a lot of keyboard shortcuts which use the cmd key on MacOS are mapped to the control key on Windows and Linux so I will be using either style throughout the rest of the article. Switching to VS Code, it is more visually based, but as I show here, the majority of the editor can be controlled with keyboard shortcuts. I used Vim previously before switching to VS Code and the Vim philosophy is to continually use keyboard shortcuts to make programming much faster as you become more advanced in Vim.

Adding cursors above & below - cmd/ctrl + opt/alt + up/down arrow.Command Palette: cmd/ctrl+shift+p or F1.Today, I want to go into how you can control the majority if not all of your editor using the keyboard alone. VS Code has many ways to control the editor through menus, the keyboard, panels in the sidebar, and many more. Top keyboard shortcuts to remember in VS Code Septem3 minutes to read
