Visual Studio Code Guide
What are the minimum keyboard shortcuts required for VS code to be effective?
Have you ever wondered what are VScode keyboard shortcuts you/others use most of the time? If you closely look into your daily activities, you will realize that most of the results you get with minimum effort. A similar observation was made by the economist Vilfredo Pareto, "80% of the results originate from 20% of the effort", called Pareto Principal. What are the minimum shortcuts required for VS code to be effective?
You may not find the exact 80/20 rule in practice but, somewhat close to it.
By fixing 20% of the bugs, Microsoft would have eliminated 80% of the related problems in the system.
According to COCOMO, 80% of the software code takes 20% of the allocated time. On the other hand, the complex part(20%) of the software takes 80% of the time.
I find that below mentioned Visual Studio Code keyboard shortcuts are the 20% of shortcuts I use for 80% of the coding work.
Editing
⌘X- cut a line⌘C- copy a line⇧⌘K- delete a line⌘L- select the line⇧⌘ Enter- Insert line above.⇧⌥ up/down- copy current line to up/down⌥ up\down- move the line up and down⌘d- select a word⌥ click- multi-cursor selection
Searching
⌥F12- to peek at the definition⌘F- find a word or a phrase in the current file⌘⇧F- find a word or a phrase in the current projectF2 - rename a replace the subsequent occurrence of the reference.
⌘D- find other instances of selected code⌘P- find and go to file (quick open)
Formatting
⌘⌥[- folding innermost code block⌘⌥]- unfolding outermost code block⇧⌥F- code formatting⌥Z- toggle word wrap⌘N- open a new tab⌘W- close the current tab⌘B- toggle visibility of the side panel⌃`- toggle visibility of the integrated terminal⌘2- split the screen into two editor groups⇧⌘T- reopen the recently closed editor⌥⌘←and⌥⌘→- view the editor tab on the left/right