Visual Studio Code Tips and Tricks

This topic goes pretty fast and provides a broad overview, so be sure to look at the other in-depth topics in Getting Started and the User Guide to learn more.

If you don’t have Visual Studio Code installed, go to the Download page. You can find platform specific setup instructions at Running VS Code on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Keyboard Shortcut

1. Access all available commands based on your current context (⇧⌘P).
2. Quickly open files (⌘P).
3. Quickly jump to errors and warnings in the project (F8 or ⇧F8).
4. Change your theme (⌘K ⌘T).
5. Tune your settings > Open User Settings settings.json.
6. Format on paste “editor.formatOnPaste”: true
7. Change the font size “editor.fontSize”: 18
8. Change the zoom level “window.zoomLevel”: 5
9. Font ligatures “editor.fontFamily”: “Fira Code”,
   “editor.fontLigatures”: true
10. Auto Save - after editing "files.autoSave": "afterDelay"

example overriding settings.json