Shortcuts

Linux

General

  • Ctrl+Shift+P, F1: Show Command Palette
  • Ctrl+Shift+T: Open last closed tab
  • Ctrl+P: Quick Open, Go to File
  • Ctrl+Shift+N: New window/instance
  • Ctrl+W: Close window/instance
  • Ctrl+,: User Settings
  • Ctrl+K, Ctrl+S: Keyboard Shortcuts

Basic editing

  • Ctrl+X: Cut line (empty selection)
  • Ctrl+C: Copy line (empty selection)
  • Ctrl+↓/↑: Move line down / up
  • Ctrl+Shift+K: Delete line
  • Ctrl+Enter / Ctrl+Shift+Enter: Insert line below / above
  • Ctrl+Shift+\: Jump to matching bracket
  • Ctrl+] / Ctrl+[: Indent / Outdent line
  • Ctrl+Home / End: Go to beginning / end of file
  • Ctrl+↑ / ↓: Scroll line up / down
  • Alt+PgUp / PgDn: Scroll page up / down
  • Ctrl+Shift+[ / ]: Fold / unfold region
  • Ctrl+K, Ctrl+[ / ]: Fold / unfold all subregions
  • Ctrl+K, Ctrl+0 / Ctrl+K, Ctrl+J: Fold /Unfold all regions
  • Ctrl+K, Ctrl+C: Add line comment
  • Ctrl+K, Ctrl+U: Remove line comment
  • Ctrl+/: Toggle line comment
  • Ctrl+Shift+A: Toggle block comment
  • Alt+Z: Toggle word wrap

Useful Extensions

HTML & CSS

  • CSScomb: Coding style formatter for CSS, Less, SCSS and Saas.

  • Puglint: Linter and style checker for pug.

  • Sass: Indented Sass syntax highlighting, autocomplete & snippets.

  • SCSS IntelliSense: Advanced autocompletion and refactoring support for SCSS.

  • XML Format: Format XML documents.

JavaScript, Node & NPM

  • Import Cost: This extension will display inline in the editor the size of the imported package.

  • ESLint: Integrates ESLint into VS Code

  • NPM: NPM support for VS Code.

  • NPM Intellisense: Visual Studio Code plugin that autocompletes NPM modules in import statements.

  • Version Lens: Shows the latest version for each package using code lens.

  • Vetur: Vue tooling for VS Code.

PHP

Perl

  • Perl: Code intelligence for the Perl language.

  • Perl Toolbox: Perl Toolbox for linting and syntax checking for Perl.

  • Perl Moose: Perl Moose syntax highlight support for Visual Studio Code.

Git

  • Git History: View git log, file history, compare branches or commits.

  • Gitignore: An extension for Visual Studio Code that assists you in working with .gitignore files.

  • GitLens: Visualize code authorship, code lens, seamlessly Git blame annotations and more.

  • Gitmoji: An emoji tool for your git commit messages.

Themes

Handy

My Settings

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{
    // Controls the font size in pixels
    "editor.fontSize": 14,

    // Render vertical rulers after a certain number of
    // monospace characters. Use multiple values for multiple
    // rulers. No rulers are drawn if array is empty
    "editor.rulers": [100],

    // The number of spaces a tab is equal to
    "editor.tabSize": 2,

    "[python]": {
        "editor.tabSize": 4
    },

    // Controls the line height
    "editor.lineHeight": 22,

    // Controls the font family
    "editor.fontFamily": "Fira Code",

    // Enables font ligatures
    "editor.fontLigatures": true,

    // Controls whether snippets are shown with other suggestions and how they are sorted.
    "editor.snippetSuggestions": "top",

    // Ignore extension recommendations
    "extensions.ignoreRecommendations": false,

    // Controls auto save of dirty files
    "files.autoSave": "afterDelay",

    // Controls the delay in ms after which a dirty file is saved automatically
    "files.autoSaveDelay": 1000,

    // Configure glob patterns for excluding files and folders
    "files.exclude": {
        ".yarn": true,
        "**/*.pyc": true
    },

    // Insert a final new line at the end of the file when saving it
    "files.insertFinalNewline": true,

    // Confirm before synchronizing git repositories
    "git.confirmSync": false,

    // Commit all changes when there are no staged changes
    "git.enableSmartCommit": true,

    // Whether to lint Python files using pylint
    "python.linting.pylintEnabled": false,

    // Whether to lint Python files using flake8
    "python.linting.flake8Enabled": true,

    // Configure glob patterns for excluding files and folders in
    // searches. Inherits all glob patterns from the files.exclude setting.
    "search.exclude": {
        "**/.git": true,
        "**/.nuxt": true,
        "**/build": true,
        "**/data": true,
        "**/dist": true,
        "**/env": true
    },

    // Adjust the zoom level of the window. The original size is 0
    // and each increment above (e.g. 1) or below (e.g. -1) represents
    // zooming 20% larger or smaller. You can also enter decimals to
    // adjust the zoom level with a finer granularity.
    "window.zoomLevel": 0,

    // Overrides colors from the currently selected color theme.
    "workbench.colorCustomizations": {
        "statusBar.background": "#8252be",
        "statusBar.foreground": "#eeffff",
        "titleBar.activeBackground": "#282b3c",
        "titleBar.activeForeground": "#eeefff"
    },

    // Specifies the color theme used in the workbench
    "workbench.colorTheme": "Material Palenight",

    // Specifies the icon theme used in the workbench
    "workbench.iconTheme": "material-icon-theme",

    // Controls font aliasing method in the workbench
    "workbench.fontAliasing": "antialiased",
    "explorer.confirmDragAndDrop": false
}