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Discussion on: How I Increased My Productivity With Visual Studio Code

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Kushan Joshi

I find the following Mac shortcuts pretty helpful

ctrl-a jump to start of line.
ctrl-e jump to end of line.

The good thing about these shortcuts is that they are universal, which means you can use them in any text field, be it chrome, VSCode, safari, finder etc.

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Matt Miller

Huh, TIL. I always use cmd + left arrow for beginning of line cmd + right arrow for end of line in MacOS.

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Kushan Joshi • Edited

Ya I used to use that, but it didn't work universally (eg. terminal, iTunes etc) for me. But the ctrl-a/e really works universally.

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Ignacio Catalina
  { "key": "ctrl+a",              "command": "cursorHome",
    "when": "editorTextFocus"
  },
  {
    "key": "ctrl+a",
    "command": "-cursorLineStart",
    "when": "editorTextFocus"
  },

Best thing since slice bread.

Instead of putting the cursor at the beginning of the line, it goes to the first character with content.