The right way to use Visual Studio Code.

Arbaz Ajaz
Nov 1, 2020

Let’s dive straight into it.

Installing the SynthWave ’84 Theme.

Using keyboard for file navigation:

Rather than going through a list of files, how about search for it with its filename.

Use Ctrl+P and this will open a search bar, type in the name of the file you’d like to open and press enter.

Using command palette:

Oh, this is the best thing. So there are a couple of things you can do with this but I’ll tell you one I like.

Wrapping bunch of html tags is quite time consuming, this will make your life easy.

Highlight the piece of code you’d like to be wrapped like this:

Open command palette using Ctrl+Shift+P

Now search for Emmet: Wrap with Abbreviation:

Press enter, and in the next input bar, enter abbreviation for tags like this:

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Arbaz Ajaz

Arbaz is a MERN Stack developer, aiming to make learning programming accessible and straight forward