Microsoft recently released a new open source text editor called Visual Studio Code. It is based on Github’s Electron platform and is a cross platform application that runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X which is surprising considering it came from Microsoft. Surprisingly, it is a great editor when it comes to working with JavaScript and Node.js and basically anything front end (React, Angular…).
Visual C 6.0 Keymap for Visual Studio Code. This extension ports several Visual C 6.0 keyboard shortcuts to Visual Studio Code. After installing the extension and restarting VS Code your favorite keyboard shortcuts from Visual C 6.0 are now available. After spending a few minutes looking at the documentation for key bindings, I changed a couple of things to make it work like any other tab based editor. Open up your key preferences json file (by going to Preferences - Keyboard Shortcuts) and paste or add the following: Mac.
One major gripe I had with it that was stopping me from making it my default editor for web application projects was that it used a concept of “Working Files” instead of tabs like most editors I have come across. It works fine once you get used to it, but since I was not using it as my primary editor for everything, it was hard going back and forth between tab based editor and VS Code. My main issue was that I could not switch between working files easily with the almost universal keyboard command to switch tabs “CMD + SHIFT + [” and “CMD + SHIFT + ]”. Also pressing “CMD + W” would close the file from the editor but not remove it from the “Working Files Section”.
After spending a few minutes looking at the documentation for key bindings, I changed a couple of things to make it work like any other tab based editor. Open up your key preferences json file (by going to Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts) and paste or add the following:
Mac
Windows / Linux:
Let me know if you have a better way of doing this or any other suggestions!
