SHORTCUTS for VS Code for IBM i
Recently, I’ve been using the wonderful Visual Studio code editor with CODE 4 IBM i a lot. After ditching IBM RDi, I’ve found myself constantly referring to the VSCODE cheat sheet to learn the many keyboard shortcuts.
So, just for my reference (and maybe to help someone else out there) here are all the shortcuts I’ve found so far.
General
- Ctrl+Shift+P, F1 Show Command Palette
- Ctrl+P Quick Open, Go to File…
- Ctrl+Shift+N New window/instance
- Ctrl+Shift+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)
- Alt+ ↑ / ↓ Move line up/down
- Shift+Alt + ↓ / ↑ Copy line up/down
- Ctrl+Shift+K Delete line
- Ctrl+Enter Insert line below
- Ctrl+Shift+Enter Insert line above
- Ctrl+Shift+\ Jump to matching bracket
- Ctrl+] / [ Indent/outdent line
- Home / End Go to beginning/end of line
- Ctrl+Home Go to beginning of file
- Ctrl+End Go to end of file
- Ctrl+↑ / ↓ Scroll line up/down
- Alt+PgUp / PgDn Scroll page up/down
- Ctrl+Shift+[ Fold (collapse) region
- Ctrl+Shift+] Unfold (uncollapse) region
- Ctrl+K Ctrl+[ Fold (collapse) all subregions
- Ctrl+K Ctrl+] Unfold (uncollapse) all subregions
- Ctrl+K Ctrl+0 Fold (collapse) all regions
- Ctrl+K Ctrl+J Unfold (uncollapse) all regions
- Ctrl+K Ctrl+C Add line comment
- Ctrl+K Ctrl+U Remove line comment
- Ctrl+/ Toggle line comment
- Shift+Alt+A Toggle block comment
- Alt+Z Toggle word wrap
Navigation
- Ctrl+T Show all Symbols
- Ctrl+G Go to Line…
- Ctrl+P Go to File…
- Ctrl+Shift+O Go to Symbol…
- Ctrl+Shift+M Show Problems panel
- F8 Go to next error or warning
- Shift+F8 Go to previous error or warning
- Ctrl+Shift+Tab Navigate editor group history
- Alt+ ← / → Go back / forward
- Ctrl+M Toggle Tab moves focus
Search and replace
- Ctrl+F Find
- Ctrl+H Replace
- F3 / Shift+F3 Find next/previous
- Alt+Enter Select all occurences of Find match
- Ctrl+D Add selection to next Find match
- Ctrl+K Ctrl+D Move last selection to next Find match
- Alt+C / R / W Toggle case-sensitive / regex / whole word
Multi-cursor and selection
- Alt+Click Insert cursor
- Ctrl+Alt+ ↑ / ↓ Insert cursor above / below
- Ctrl+U Undo last cursor operation
- Shift+Alt+I Insert cursor at end of each line selected
- Ctrl+L Select current line
- Ctrl+Shift+L Select all occurrences of current selection
- Ctrl+F2 Select all occurrences of current word
- Shift+Alt+→ Expand selection
- Shift+Alt+← Shrink selection
- Shift+Alt + (drag mouse)
Rich languages editing
- Ctrl+Space, Ctrl+I Trigger suggestion
- Ctrl+Shift+Space Trigger parameter hints
- Shift+Alt+F Format document
- Ctrl+K Ctrl+F Format selection
- F12 Go to Definition
- Alt+F12 Peek Definition
- Ctrl+K F12 Open Definition to the side
- Ctrl+. Quick Fix
- Shift+F12 Show References
- F2 Rename Symbol
- Ctrl+K Ctrl+X Trim trailing whitespace
- Ctrl+K M Change file language
Editor management
- Ctrl+F4, Ctrl+W Close editor
- Ctrl+K F Close folder
- Ctrl+\ Split editor
- Ctrl+ 1 / 2 / 3 Focus into 1st, 2nd or 3rd editor group
- Ctrl+K Ctrl+ ←/→ Focus into previous/next editor group
- Ctrl+Shift+PgUp / PgDn Move editor left/right
- Ctrl+K ← / → Move active editor group
File management
- Ctrl+N New File
- Ctrl+O Open File…
- Ctrl+S Save
- Ctrl+Shift+S Save As…
- Ctrl+K S Save All
- Ctrl+F4 Close
- Ctrl+K Ctrl+W Close All
- Ctrl+Shift+T Reopen closed editor
- Ctrl+K Enter Keep preview mode editor open
- Ctrl+Tab Open next
- Ctrl+Shift+Tab Open previous
- Ctrl+K P Copy path of active file
- Ctrl+K R Reveal active file in Explorer
- Ctrl+K O Show active file in new window/instance
Display
- F11 Toggle full screen
- Shift+Alt+0 Toggle editor layout (horizontal/vertical)
- Ctrl+ = / – Zoom in/out
- Ctrl+B Toggle Sidebar visibility
- Ctrl+Shift+E Show Explorer / Toggle focus
- Ctrl+Shift+F Show Search
- Ctrl+Shift+G Show Source Control
- Ctrl+Shift+D Show Debug
- Ctrl+Shift+X Show Extensions
- Ctrl+Shift+H Replace in files
- Ctrl+Shift+J Toggle Search details
- Ctrl+Shift+U Show Output panel
- Ctrl+Shift+V Open Markdown preview
- Ctrl+K V Open Markdown preview to the side
- Ctrl+K Z Zen Mode (Esc Esc to exit)
Debug
- F9 Toggle breakpoint
- F5 Start/Continue
- Shift+F5 Stop
- F11 / Shift+F11 Step into/out
- F10 Step over
- Ctrl+K Ctrl+I Show hover
Integrated terminal
- Ctrl+
Showintegrated terminal Ctrl+Shift+Create new terminal- Ctrl+C Copy selection
- Ctrl+V Paste into active terminal
- Ctrl+↑ / ↓ Scroll up/down
- Shift+PgUp / PgDn Scroll page up/down
- Ctrl+Home / End Scroll to top/bottom
Thanks for the post. I’ve always been a fan of vim commands when editing and vscode has an excellent implementation in the plugin VSCodeVim. Using RDi, I’ve missed the possibility of developping RPG this way. We still have to use RDi for debugging and our versioning tool (tdoms). Maybe someday the shop will move over to VSCodeVim. Would free up a lot of licensing fees.
You are welcome Sir! I’m still a complete noob when it comes to using VSCode, but have really enjoyed learning its shortcuts and tricks. Far superior to RDi — IMHO of course.
Thanks Nick. Cheers 🙂
I’ve just started using VS Code for i, I have libraries and members, but I select a member QCLLESRC, it is shown, but clicking on that member all CL pgms in that member individually so I can edit,change, etc. I don’t have global protection checked. Why? Using VS Code Open Z editor, it displays all the files in the various Partitioned Data Sets (PDS)