---
title: "15 VS Code Tips to Make Your Coding Experience Better"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/15-vs-code-tips-to-make-your-coding-experience-better-oyzddqfbt
source_url: https://itsfoss.com/vs-code-tips/
type: article
source: "It's Foss"
published: 2024-10-11T03:14:06.345Z
updated: 2024-12-12T08:29:58.673Z
tags: ["productivity", "vscode"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 1304
comments: 34
language: en
---

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# 15 VS Code Tips to Make Your Coding Experience Better

**[It's Foss](https://daily.dev/sources/itsfoss)** · 7 min read · 1304 upvotes · 34 comments

## Summary

Discover fifteen tips to enhance your coding experience in Visual Studio Code. Learn how to use integrated terminals, split editors, create files on the go, and more. These tips include synchronizing scrolling, multi-cursor editing, markdown preview, Zen mode, moving lines, renaming variables, formatting documents, commenting multiple lines, and more efficient file browsing.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@simonced** · 15 upvotes

> About the sticky scroll, it's useful, but you are 4+ levels deep, the "head" starts to be anoying and takes too much space.
> I prefer to stick (no pun intended) to looking at the breadcrumbs that show rougthly the same info, just in one line.
> (screen shot in the article also shows that)
>
> One tipe of mine, I like keeping the main config file of the project as a "pinned" file. It stays neatly on the side, and doesn't take much space in the tabs row.

**@nafizdev** · 1 upvotes

> 3 tips are really useful from those 15 tips:
>
>   - Scroll Faster: Alt + scroll (will scroll 5x faster),
>   - Multi Select: Alt + click where you want to select,
>   - Renaming Function Name: Select + press F3 (a small window will
>      open) + enter new name.

**@jalalbmnf** · 1 upvotes

> Thank you

**@sayed101** · 1 upvotes

> Loved the f2 to rename a function.

**@mrshashikant** · 1 upvotes

> Useful

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