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Shortcut	Function
Ctrl+B	Toggle sidebar visibility

FAQ

Why does my editor.wordWrap setting not apply to Markdown files?

• See https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/72559

Multiple cursors

• To create multiple cursors, hold down Alt while clicking.
• Alternatively, if the desired locations are on consecutive lines at the same column position, press Alt+Shift+Up/Down arrow for the desired direction and number of cursors.
• Press Esc to go back to a single cursor.

Pressing AltGr on Danish keyboard moves cursor left on Ubuntu in Hyper-V VM

• Change this setting as follows:

  "keyboard.dispatch": "keyCode"

  • Source

Sort settings.json

This worked for me (using zsh):

tmp=$(mktemp /tmp/settings.XXXXXX) && npx --yes json5 "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Code/User/settings.json" | jq -S . > "$tmp" && mv "$tmp" "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Code/User/settings.json"

See also: Security analysis of the json5 package