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An interactive 19-lesson course to master VSCode's keyboard shortcuts

by tkainrad on 9/6/21, 6:44 PM with 21 comments

• by gregsadetsky on 9/6/21, 7:57 PM

  I've also spent a bit of time practicing Sublime shortcuts using https://www.shortcutfoo.com/

  Are there other sites like these that people prefer?

  Also -- VSCode's shortcuts seem to map 1-to-1 to Sublime's. Is that possible? Is there a lineage of "who inspired who" e.g., for instance, who was the first to come up with ctrl/cmd-P for quick open by name and ctrl/cmd-shift-P for the command palette?

• by recentdarkness on 9/6/21, 8:03 PM

  Doesn't seem to work for me with Chrome on macos - Not sure what's the deal is - It shows me 4 empty rectangles and expects me to do something - potentially in the keyboard input field. However if I press for example CMD + P obviously it tries to print - So it doesn't catch the shortcuts.

• by rich_sasha on 9/6/21, 8:45 PM

  I thought “lol 19 lessons for keyboard shortcuts???” - but then I thought about what an Emacs equivalent would look like. To even bind a new shortcut you need to write Lisp!

  I love it but you can cut yourself pretty badly on the learning curve.

• by Havoc on 9/6/21, 11:33 PM

  Nice. One of the starter shortcut (command pallet) overlaps with FF open new private browsing window for me though. Ie literally takes you away from the webpage

  Not sure how the dev is going to work around that one

• by thrower123 on 9/6/21, 9:18 PM

  VS Code desperately needs an optional ability to have a toolbar with common commands, or to allow extension makers the ability to do so.

  The complete disregard for normal Microsoft UX conventions is bothersome.

• by andy81 on 9/6/21, 8:04 PM

  Shift isn't picked up on Firefox. Am I missing something or is this Chrome/Desktop only?

• by rStar on 9/6/21, 7:52 PM

  sounds like emacs