## VSCode text editing shortcuts cheat sheet
VSCode comes with a gazillion shortcuts. Learning and using them is a true power-up but it's hard to know where to start.

Here's a cheat sheet with some general shortcuts and simple text manipulations.

Nothing code related. No programming language specifics. These are the vanilla defaults that ships with VSCode. I think some are even macOS defaults and not unique to VSCode.

> NOTE: Windows users will *probably* be able to swap command (⌘) for ctrl (^) in most cases, but I don't have access to Windows at the moment so i can't verify that.

Some shortcuts are double, in that you press a first set and then a modifier. Most notably `⌘K` works like that, as well as some markdown extensions who uses `^M` as their initial key combination. 

Double shortcuts are marked with a comma, which means that first you press the combination before the comma and then the second character(s). If a double command uses the command key twice, you can usually just keep holding down the command key while pressing down the first and the second letter in the combination.


### General commands and UI

|                                         |       |
|-----------------------------------------|:------|
| Command Palette                         | ⇧⌘ P  |
| Toggle left sidebar                     | ⌘ B   |
| Toggle bottom panel                     | ⌘ J   |
| Toggle zen mode (full screen no panels) | ⌘K, Z |
| Show search panel                       | ⇧⌘ F  |
| Show file explorer                      | ⇧⌘ E  |
|                                         |       |

### Document navigation and cursors
A symbol will be the headings in markdown files. So by navigating to symbols, you will be able to jump to a specific header - both in the same document as well as to any header in any file in your workspace.

|                              |                            |
|------------------------------|:---------------------------|
| Go to symbol in Document     | ⇧⌘ O                       |
| Go to symbol in Workspace    | ⌘ T                        |
| Navigate character           | arrows right or left       |
| Navigate word by word        | ⌥ + arrows right or left   |
| Navigate to line start       | ⌘ ←                        |
| Navigate to line end         | ⌘ →                        |
| Select character             | ⇧ + arrows right or left   |
| Select word by word          | ⇧ ⌥ + arrows right or left |
| Select to line start         | ⇧⌘ ←                       |
| Select to line end           | ⇧⌘ →                       |
| Toggle folding current block | ⌘K, ⌘L                     |
| Fold all                     | ⌘K, ⌘0                     |
| Unfold all                   | ⌘K, ⌘J                     |
| Multiple cursors             | ⌥ + click                  |
| Add cursor above             | ⌥ ⌘ ↑                      |
| Add cursor below             | ⌥ ⌘ ↓                      |


### Text manipulation

|                                                    |          |
|----------------------------------------------------|:---------|
| Move line up                                       | ⌥ ↑      |
| Move line down                                     | ⌥ ↓      |
| Duplicate line down                                | ⇧⌥ ↓     |
| Duplicate line up                                  | ⇧⌥ ↑     |
| Delete line                                        | ⇧⌘K      |
| Insert line above                                  | ⇧⌘ Enter |
| Insert line below                                  | ⌘ Enter  |
| Join lines *(removes line break at the end of line)* | ^ J      |