Some useful keyboard shortcuts for power users of Visual Studio Code IDE to increase productivity and save time and effort.
General Command
| ctrl+K ctrl+S | Keyboard Shortcuts |
| ctrl+, | User Settings |
| ctrl+shift+P or F1 | Show Command Palette |
| ctrl+P | Open, Go to File… |
| ctrl+shift+N | New window/instance |
| ctrl+shift+W | Close window/instance |
Search and Replace
| ctrl+F | Find |
| ctrl+H | Replace |
| F3 | Find next |
| shift+F3 | Find Previous |
| ctrl+K ctrl+D | Move last selection to next Find match |
| ctrl+D | Add selection to next Find match |
| alt+C / R / W | Toggle case-sensitive / regex / whole word |
| alt+Enter | Select all occurrences of Find match |
Editing
| ctrl+X | Cut entire line |
| ctrl+C | Copy entire line |
| ctrl+shift+K | Delete line |
| ctrl+Enter | Insert line below |
| ctrl+shift+Enter | Insert line above |
| alt+↑ | Move line up |
| alt+↓ | Move line down |
| shift+alt+↑ | Copy line up |
| shift+alt+↓ | Copy line down |
| ctrl+shift+\ | Jump to matching bracket |
| ctrl+] / [ | Indent / out-dent line |
| ctrl+shift+[ | Fold or collapse region |
| ctrl+shift+] | Unfold or un-collapse region |
| ctrl+K ctrl+[ | Fold or collapse all sub-regions |
| ctrl+K ctrl+] | Unfold or un-collapse all sub-regions |
| ctrl+K ctrl+0 | Fold or collapse all regions |
| ctrl+K ctrl+J | Unfold or un-collapse all regions |
| ctrl+K ctrl+C | Add line comment |
| ctrl+K ctrl+U | Remove line comment |
| ctrl+/ | Toggle line comment |
| shift+alt+A | Toggle block comment |
| alt+Z | Toggle word wrap |
Navigation
| Home | Go to beginning of line |
| End | Go to end of line |
| ctrl+Home | Go to beginning of file |
| ctrl+End | Go to end of file |
| ctrl+T | Show all Symbols |
| ctrl+G | Go to Line… |
| ctrl+P | Go to File… |
| ctrl+shift+O | Go to Symbol… |
| ctrl+shift+M | Show Problems panel |
| alt+ ← | Go back |
| alt+ → | Go forward |
| ctrl+shift+Tab | Navigate editor group history |
| ctrl+M | Toggle Tab moves focus |
| F8 | Go to next error or warning |
| shift+F8 | Go to previous error or warning |
File Management
| ctrl+N | New File |
| ctrl+O | Open File… |
| ctrl+S | Save |
| ctrl+shift+S | Save As… |
| ctrl+K S | Save All |
| ctrl+F4 | Close |
| ctrl+K or ctrl+W | Close All |
| ctrl+shift+T | Reopen closed editor |
| ctrl+K | Enter Keep preview mode editor open |
| ctrl+Tab | Open next |
| ctrl+shift+Tab | Open previous |
| ctrl+K P | Copy path of active file |
| ctrl+K R | Reveal active file in Explorer |
| ctrl+K O | Show active file in new window/instance |
Multiple Cursor and Selection
| alt+Click | Insert cursor |
| ctrl+alt+↑ | Insert cursor above |
| ctrl+alt+↓ | Insert cursor below |
| ctrl+U | Undo last cursor operation |
| shift+alt+I | Insert cursor at end of each line selected |
| ctrl+L | Select current line |
| ctrl+shift+L | Select all occurrences of current selection |
| ctrl+F2 | Select all occurrences of current word |
| shift+alt+→ | Expand selection |
| shift+alt+← | Shrink selection |
| shift+alt+(drag mouse) | Column (box) selection |
| ctrl+shift+alt+(arrow key) | Column (box) selection |
| ctrl+shift+alt+PgUp/PgDn | Column (box) selection page up/down |