Advanced usage of your editor
This section lists features that are useful for everyone but have more complex uses. It is recommended that you have at least started to write some code—even if it's just in the intro course—before looking at this. Otherwise it may be difficult to understand what these techniques do or why you would want to use them.
Shortcuts
First you should know that it is possible to edit the editor shortcuts by
searching for Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts in the command palette.
You can also search for shortcuts here. The default shortcuts are primarily
designed for users with American keyboard layouts and as such, some of them
will be very unwieldy to use. Make your editor yours by changing as many
shortcuts as you'd like!
Compose keys
Some shortcuts require multiple keypresses. You can enter compose mode by pressing !kbd[!ctrl+k] and then your desired shortcut. For example, opening the menu to edit shortcuts can be opened by first pressing !kbd[!ctrl+k] followed by !kbd[!ctrl+s].
Next error
If your code has errors you can easily go to the next error by pressing !kbd[!ctrl+'].
Format your code
It is easy to write messy code in the beginning. This makes it difficult for
TAs and your friends to help you. It is recommended to enable the Editor: format on save option in the preferences so that your code will automatically
be formatted when you save. It is also possible to manually format using
!kbd[!ctrl+Shift+i].
Formatting does not work when you have syntax errors so if the command doesn't do anything you might have to fix your code first!