1 00:00:02,380 --> 00:00:08,860 Now of course the look and feel of your editor and your IDE is one thing but it doesn't stop there. 2 00:00:08,890 --> 00:00:12,450 Once you start writing code, there are also other things that really matter, 3 00:00:12,460 --> 00:00:16,380 for example that you are aware of some key shortcuts. 4 00:00:16,390 --> 00:00:22,570 Now again, here in Visual Studio Code, you can find many shortcuts by just going into the different sections 5 00:00:22,570 --> 00:00:24,580 here that allow you to edit your code 6 00:00:24,700 --> 00:00:28,450 and there, you always find the shortcut that would allow you to do the same thing. 7 00:00:28,450 --> 00:00:33,640 These are simple things like undoing or redoing which you'll use a lot or copy and pasting which you 8 00:00:33,790 --> 00:00:34,950 probably know 9 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:41,230 but then we also got things, like here toggling the comments which I did already in an earlier module 10 00:00:41,410 --> 00:00:46,800 which allows you to quickly comment a line in or out. And the shortcuts you're seeing here might not 11 00:00:46,810 --> 00:00:51,400 be the same ones I have here because you can re-bind these shortcuts and I'll come back to that in 12 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:52,870 a second. 13 00:00:52,990 --> 00:00:58,260 Also important are the selection shortcuts you find here or the selection modes you find here. 14 00:00:58,300 --> 00:01:04,210 This allows you to quickly select similar values for example with the add next occurrence shortcut if 15 00:01:04,210 --> 00:01:11,080 you want. There I could mark log entries and if I now hit the shortcut for this or I choose the option 16 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:14,410 here of course but using the shortcut is simply faster, 17 00:01:14,410 --> 00:01:21,490 so if I do this, then it selects the next occurrence of this same word if you will in my code. 18 00:01:21,490 --> 00:01:27,010 So now I have this selected and this selected and that's great for renaming for example, if I want to 19 00:01:27,010 --> 00:01:31,470 rename this, I can just hit the shortcut until I have all occurrences selected, 20 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:37,210 I also get a hint here on the right in the scroll bar where all these occurrences are and then I can 21 00:01:37,210 --> 00:01:38,590 give this a new name 22 00:01:38,590 --> 00:01:41,800 and now it's renamed in all the places where I did use it. 23 00:01:42,370 --> 00:01:48,940 So that allows you to change and refactor things much faster and this is also a crucial shortcut 24 00:01:49,180 --> 00:01:54,880 and all these selection shortcuts can be really helpful, for example for moving something up a line or 25 00:01:54,880 --> 00:02:00,700 down a line, that makes restructuring your code which you will ultimately do a lot in development. 26 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:07,410 way easier. Now not all shortcuts might work for you, maybe you want to change one and you can do that 27 00:02:07,410 --> 00:02:15,270 under code preferences and then there, keyboard shortcuts. If you click on that, you find all the shortcuts 28 00:02:15,390 --> 00:02:20,100 which are built in and there are a lot of shortcuts but the good thing is it's really great to search 29 00:02:20,100 --> 00:02:20,620 this, 30 00:02:20,700 --> 00:02:26,100 for example if you're not happy with that add next occurence shortcut here and you want to use a different 31 00:02:26,100 --> 00:02:26,670 one, 32 00:02:26,820 --> 00:02:31,200 well you can type add next and it's actually this one here, 33 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:36,590 you can also search for a key binding. If you can't find a shortcut otherwise, you can search for this 34 00:02:36,590 --> 00:02:44,430 here on Mac by just typing command D and now it shows you all shortcuts that include the command key 35 00:02:44,430 --> 00:02:51,090 and the D key, of course also the control or the shift key is supported, same for space and so on. So you 36 00:02:51,090 --> 00:02:56,590 can also search for keys and find the actions that are bound to these keys. 37 00:02:56,820 --> 00:03:02,240 So that gives you a lot of power to really find all the different commands you might need 38 00:03:02,370 --> 00:03:06,510 and then of course it's needless to say that you can change them by just right clicking on this and 39 00:03:06,510 --> 00:03:09,000 then change key binding. 40 00:03:09,090 --> 00:03:14,100 So really make sure that you adjust these shortcuts to your requirements and that you simply have a 41 00:03:14,100 --> 00:03:19,890 look at the menu up there, the menus up here, to find some actions that might look useful to you and bind 42 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:22,000 these to shortcuts which you can reach 43 00:03:22,230 --> 00:03:27,980 and as you work and as you grow as a developer, you'll find more and more shortcuts to work with. 44 00:03:27,990 --> 00:03:34,990 So the goal is not to stop developing for two days now and just explore all possible shortcuts, 45 00:03:35,010 --> 00:03:39,750 you can do that if you like but my recommendation would be that you just have a brief look at the options 46 00:03:39,750 --> 00:03:45,210 you find here in the menu and experiment with these options and then as you continue with development 47 00:03:45,210 --> 00:03:52,170 and as you write code, you will automatically reach situations where you think that would be really nice 48 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:58,320 if I could fix it with a shortcut and then you can go to this shortcut changing menu, to the keyboard 49 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:03,750 shortcuts menu here and simply search for the action you want to do and see which shortcut this has 50 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,570 and if it doesn't have a shortcut yet, you can assign one. 51 00:04:06,900 --> 00:04:09,690 So using shortcuts really is something which I would recommend.