Post #1923021
2026-04-28 18:32 UTC
I have been using VSCode for around 6 years. Several times per week, sometimes several times per day, I'll do a global search (ctrl-shift-f). This works great, except I hate tabbing a whole bunch of times to get from the search field to the results list. Today, I found out that ctrl-down will jump me right to the results. I don't want to know how many presses of tab, and how much annoyance, this shortcut could have saved me. It's a lot.
Replies (3)
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@jscholes@dragonscave.space 2026-04-28 18:43
@alexhall@mastodon.social I mean how would anybody guess that? A great example of technically accessible but crappy UX.
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@pixelate@tweesecake.social 2026-04-28 21:23
@jonathan859@someplace.social @alexhall@mastodon.social VS Code needs a ... Um, how would you describe Emacs' mode help? Anyway, context sensitive help? Yeah, that.
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@DianaThompson@fosstodon.org 2026-04-29 22:06
@alexhall@mastodon.social VS Code's keyboard navigation can be so annoying. Unfortunately, VS Code is not upholding the MS keyboard shortcut convention of providing Alt + underlined letter, underlined letter, etc. combos for every menu option. There are still many combos available, but it's not complete. At least they figured out how to add Ctrl+Tab to switch between files in the editor.