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My Ctrl is in the same position as Command, and my Alt is in the name position as Option.

That’s why I settled with Command + Option + Number key.įor Windows, you know my answer by now. It makes sense to use a similar convention for focusing on terminals. These two shortcuts help me focus my cursor on a specific tab.

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Switch code panels: Option + Number key.

If you remember from the previous article, here are the shortcuts I used: Look for “focus terminal at index” in the keyboard shortcuts panel. There are no default shortcuts for this feature 😢. Your browser doesn't support embedded videos. This shortcut lets me focus on both split terminals and new terminals. The best one I found is terminal.focusAtIndexNumber. I wanted a shortcut that lets me focus on a terminal window quickly. That’s why Split Terminal has an easier keyboard shortcut. I prefer to split the terminal over creating a new one. Here, I used the Control modifier for Mac (or Win for Windows). The easiest way, I thought, would be to add another modifier. I wanted this shortcut to be a slight variant of the toggle terminal shortcut. I already toggle the terminal with Command + Option + `. Search for Split Terminal in Visual Studio Code’s keyboard shortcuts panel. We can split the terminal into two with the Split Terminal action. I changed the shortcut to Ctrl + Alt to keep it consistent with the Mac version. On Windows, my Alt key is next to the Ctrl key. It’s still easy to use because I can press Command and Option together with my thumb. So I settled with using Command + Option + `.

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But I can’t do this because Mac uses Command + ` to switch windows of the same application. I love it so much, I wanted to toggle the Integrated Terminal on Mac with Command + `. My left thumb is on the spacebar most of the time. This is because I switched the positions of Ctrl and Alt. The shortcut for opening and closing the Integrated Terminal on Windows ( Ctrl + `) was extremely accessible to me. I fell in love with the Integrated Terminal when I was forced to use Visual Studio Code on Windows. "command": ""įor Windows, set Ctrl + Alt + ` via the keyboard shortcut panel. Toggles terminal with Command + Option + ` You must set it through the JSON file, so open up keybindings.json and insert the following entry. (Mac Visual Studio Code won’t register ` with Command or Option keys). On Mac, you can’t set Command + Option + ` through this panel. You should see an option to toggle the integrated terminal. Search for “Integrated Terminal” in the keyboard shortcuts panel.

This keyboard shortcut opens and closes the Integrated Terminal. Let’s start by toggling the integrated terminal.

Once I changed this shortcut, BOOM I rarely use the integrated terminal anymore.

The real problem was because Mac’s shortcut for accessing the Integrated Terminal ( Control + `) wasn’t accessible enough. It sounds even funnier I say I use a 27" display… I know this sounds funny considering I use a 15" Mac. I felt it was too small there wasn’t enough space for code and the terminal to coexist. I didn’t like the Integrated Terminal in Visual Studio Code for a long time. I didn’t like the Integrated Terminal previously This week, I want to share some wicked shortcuts I use for the Integrated Terminal. I talked about the key bindings I used to switch between tabs and panels last week. Customised (and effective) Visual Studio Code keyboard shortcuts for Mac and Windows (Part 2) 27th May 2020