🚀🚀🚀 VS-Code tricks that will SKY-ROCKET your productivity! 🤯🤯🤯
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Content:
1. Zen Mode
2. Create and Open a file that does not exist
3. Quickly Navigate to a file
4. Side by Side Markdown Editor and Preview
5. Switch Branches with one click
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6. Edit the same word within the document.
7. Edit the same word within the entire project.
8. Manage multiple cursors
9. Copy and move lines of code without copying/pasting them.
1. Zen Mode
That's a distraction-free mode that helps you concentrate your attention on writing code!
Shortcut to activate it:
1. CTRL/CMD + K
2. Z
2. Create and Open a file that does not exist
If you declared a path to file but it does not exist yet, just use this shortcut:
CTRL/CMD+click on the File
And it will be created automatically!
3. Quickly Navigate to a file
Quickly navigate to a file with this shortcut:
CTRL/CMD + P
4. Side by Side Markdown Editor and Preview
Open synchronize preview of markdown file jus by clicking in icon in right top corner or with this shortcut:
1. CTRL/CMD + K
2. V
5. Switch Branches with one click
Easily switch between Git branches via the Status Bar.
6. Edit the same word within the document.
Follow the steps:
1. Select word which should be changed
2. CTRL/CMD + F
3. Click on the arrow in poped up modal
4. Type needed word
5. CTRL/CMD + Enter
And the word is changed!
7. Edit the same word within the entire project.
Follow the steps:
1. Select word which should be changed
2. CTRL/CMD + Shift + F
3. Click on the arrow in the left sidebar
4. Type needed word
5. CTRL/CMD + ALT/Option + Enter
And the word is changed!
8. (Part 1) Manage multiple cursors
You can add multiple cursors to your document and change as much stuff as you want at once!
There we have 3 ways of doing it:
1. Hold ALT/Option key and click to add a new cursor.
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8. (Part 2) Manage multiple cursors
2. Add the first cursor, hold down Command+Alt and use the Up and/or Down arrows to add new cursors
3. (My favorite!) Highlight a word and select the next occurrence of that word by pressing CTRL/CMD + D
9. Copy and move lines of code without copying/pasting them.
1. Select needed lines of code
2. Hold ALT/Option (for moving)
Hold ALT/Option + Shift (for copying)
3. Move or Copy them with arrow keys ⬆️⬇️
That's all folks! 🔥🧯
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