There were Ctrl+E+C (comment) and Ctrl+E+U (uncomment) in older versions, or Ctrl+K+C and Ctrl+K+U.
But in VS 2012, I can't see key shortcuts:
How to enable those shortcuts?
Keyboard accelerators are configurable. You can find out which keyboard accelerators are bound to a command in Tools -> Options on the Environment -> Keyboard page.
These commands are named Edit.CommentSelection and Edit.UncommentSelection.
(With my settings, these are bound to Ctrl+K, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+K, Ctrl+U. I would guess that these are the defaults, at least in the C++ defaults, but I don't know for sure. The best way to find out is to check your settings.)
You can also add the toolbar in Visual Studio to have the buttons available.
View > Toolbars > Text Editor
Use the keys CtrlK,C to comment out the line and CtrlK,U to uncomment the line.
From your screenshot it appears you have ReSharper installed.
Depending on the key binding options you chose when you installed it, some of your standard shortcuts may now be redirected to ReSharper commands. It's worth checking, for example Ctrl+E, C is used by R# for the code cleanup dialog.
This is how I did it,
Menu Tools → Options on the Environment → Keyboard window
One can alter the default shortcuts following the below steps
Select Edit.CommentSelection in the listbox
Click on "Remove" button
Select "Text Editor" option in the dropdown under "Use new shortcut in:"
Press your own shortcut in the textbox under "Press shortcut keys:"
Example: Pressing Ctrl+E and then C will give you Ctrl+E, C
Click on "Assign" button
Repeat the same for Edit.UnCommentSelection (Ctrl+E, U)
I went to menu: Tools → Options.
Environment → Keyboard.
Show command containing and searched: comment
I changed Edit.CommentSelection and assigned Ctrl+/ for commenting.
And I left Ctrl+K then U for the Edit.UncommentSelection.
These could be tweaked to the user's preference as to what key they would prefer for commenting/uncommenting.
"commentLine" is the name of function you are looking for. This function coment and uncoment with the same keybinding
Shift + alt + a
the command palette is great for finding shortcut keys.
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I am trying to display all possible words after putting the cursor in certain place in the code.
The autocomplete list appears when I start writing/typing:
However, I would like to see all suggested words even before typing.
I tried command + space, however it was a system shortcut for Search in macOS:
Any thoughts?
In case you are a CJK user using Mac, Ctrl+Space will not work, since it is used to switch IMEs.
There is another keyboard shortcut for triggering suggestions:
Option+Esc (Mac)
Alt+Esc (Windows)
Also see this post.
VS code version: 1.41.1
I solved this problem using fn+control+space.
Hope it helps you.
"change input source" keyboard shortcut should be disabled
To disable it->
Go to system preferences -> keyboard -> input sources
add a new input source (choose ABC)
Go to shortcuts tab (inside of keyboard settings)
Click on input sources on the left
disable the "select previous input source" shortcut
restart your vs code and now ctrl+space will show quick suggestions.
You can use the following alternative keyboard shortcuts:
⌘+I (mentioned in the official VS Code documentation for "Trigger suggestion")
⌥+esc
fn+control+space
The shortcut for the "Trigger Suggest" command is ⌃Space (ctrl+space) — as mentioned in the comments.
Most default shortcuts can be found in the documentation, which will automatically show the correct keybindings for the system you're on. In other words, if you visit the page on a Mac, you'll see Mac keybindings.
Additionally, you can:
go to Code > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts (on a Mac) and search for keybindings based on the command you want to execute
open up "show all commands" (⇧⌘P on a Mac) and search for the command there, allowing you to either view the keybinding for that command, or simply navigate to it directly from the search
Of course you'd have to have some idea of what the command's name might be. And in this case, a search for "suggest" would suffice.
If you use too many keyboard layouts, maybe the MacOS shortcut might be active. You can disabled ^(Ctrl)+Space shortcuts for MacOS.
System Preferences>Keyboard>Shorcuts>Input Sources> Disable Select the previous input source.
You can use next shortcut for change input sources.Ctrl+Alt+Space
when I was set up 2 keyboards with different layouts, and it turn out it overrides the ^+Space behavior, so this is how fix it:
Go to system preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard shortcuts
Click on input sources
and disable the "select previous input source" shortcut
I can't believe I'm asking this. I have resharper 9.0 and visual studio 2013 community. My extend selection hotkey is supposed to be ctrl alt right but that doesn't work at all. I can use ctrl-w instead but ctrl-shift-w does not work for shrinking. I'd like to remap the bindings but I cant even find the resharper extend selection mapping in my keyboard options. I am able to find the shrink option and it's set to ctrl-alt-left (doesn't work). Tried changing it to alt-shift-down but STILL doesn't work. What am I doing wrong here?
The extend selection command is ReSharper.ReSharper_SelectEmbracingConstruct, and the shrink selection is ReSharper.ReSharper_ShrinkSelection (Yay consistency!) You can remap them in the Tools → Options → Keyboard dialog.
Or, you can reset keyboard shortcuts to default ReSharper settings by going to Tools → Options → Keyboard and hitting reset, then going to ReSharper → Options → Keyboard & Menus and hitting "Apply Scheme".
Resharper provides a great feature: Jump to previous focused method.
This can be caused by Ctrl- shortcut
What is the opposite shortcut, jump to the next method?
In Visual Studio, go to Tools->Options...->Environment->Keyboard. In the box that says 'Press shortcut keys:' press Ctrl- and see what's in the 'Shortcut currently use by:' box. (Mine says View.NavigateBackward (Ctrl- (Global))). In the 'Show commands containing:' box type in 'View.Navigate' and you will see 'View.NavigateForward'. Select that and in the 'Shortcut for selected command: box will be the keyboard shortcut (On mine it's: CtrlShift-(Global))
Here is key combination ctrl+shift+-
I've been diligently memorizing VS 2010 shortcuts based on the cheatsheats on Scott Guthries blog.
The shortcuts in the cheatsheet for WIndows dont match my setup e.g. Ctrl W,C is the cheatsheet shortcut to open the class viewer but mine is Ctrl + SHift, C. Maybe this is because my 08 settings got picked up at some point.
I've changed the shortcuts for viewing windows to match the cheat sheet (Ctrl + W,...) however most of the time Ctrl+W,... isn't working for me, whereas the previously defined shortcuts still work. If I go into the keyboard mappings I can see the shortcuts under global are Ctrl+W.
Anyone got any ideas?
Try going to Tools -> Options -> General -> Keyboard, focus the textbox labelled "Press shortcut keys" and pressing Ctrl+W. The dropdown list beneath it will show all corresponding actions. Action mappings are contextual -- they depend on what has the focus. Furthermore, 'Global' actions only apply if a more localised mapping does not exist. Check for anything applied to 'Text Editor'. If it exists and you don't want it, remove it by digging the action out in the 'Show commands containing' textbox above and clicking 'Remove'.
Also, do you have ReSharper installed? I love R#, but it uses Ctrl+W so the series of shortcuts you're referring to aren't available without being remapped or changing the R# keystroke (which I wouldn't personally, as I use it all the time.)
When I have a file open in visual studio/sql server management studio and have it split in to two panes, I'd like to be able to switch between the panes without having to reach for the mouse. Does anyone know if a shortcut key exists for this?
F6 is your friend.
I think you can assign this by going to Tools -> Options -> Keyboard and searching for SplitPane. You should be able to assign shortcut keys for the following values:
Window.NextSplitPane
Window.PreviousSplitPane
CTRL+F6 will cycle through your files and across panes.
In SSMS: right-click toolbars, customize. Under categories, select Window, then under Commands select "Next Split Pane". Drag to toolbar. Right-click and change name to "Next Split P&ane". You can now use alt-a to change split pane.
On Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2012, I figured out that it is the combination of Ctrl+Shift+UpArrow(or DownArrow). :-)
This was not easy for me for some reason. This method finally worked (similar to Steve Dignan's answer above but I don't have enough rep to comment yet).
In VS 2012, Tools, Options, Environment, Keyboard.
"Apply the following additional keyboard scheme" set to "Visual C# 2005".
"Use new shortcut in" set to 'Global'.
Enter "splitpane" in "Show commands containing" to get only the 2 desired commands.
Select the first one and remove any shortcuts already assigned.
Click inside the "Press shortcut keys" box and use "Ctrl + Alt + Up Arrow" for prev and down arrow for next.
If either of those shortcut chords are currently used by something else, you may need to search on that command and remove it from there. Then come back to the split pane commands and Assign.
Don't forget to close VS before you open another instance of it.
For Visual Studio 2010 (maybe others as well) F6 will work to jump between split panes if Tools -> Options -> Keyboard does not use the Visual C# 2005 keyboard layout additionally (which was the case for me for I-don't-know-why reasons - maybe I said yes to an installer/first-start question a long time ago).
Of course you will no longer be able to build your project with F6 afterwards. ;-)
For Visual Studio 2012: Tools -> Options -> Keyboard -> search by Window.Split and add a new shortcut.