--- title: "Visual Studio January Update" url: https://daily.dev/posts/visual-studio-january-update-i6ak5emou source_url: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-january-update-enhanced-editor-experience/ type: article source: "Visual Studio Blog" published: 2026-01-27T18:36:25.247Z updated: 2026-03-15T05:54:13.057Z tags: ["devtools", "github", "markdown", "visual-studio"] reading_time: 4 upvotes: 13 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Visual Studio January Update **[Visual Studio Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/vs)** · 4 min read · 13 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Visual Studio's January 2026 update introduces several editor enhancements including fast scrolling with Alt key, middle-click scrolling, HTML-rich copy-paste for colorized code, syntactic line compression to view more code, and a slimmer left margin with inline Quick Actions. Code completions now feature syntax highlighting with customizable colors and opacity. Users can partially accept completions by clicking within suggestions, with segment highlighting showing what will be accepted. The Markdown editor gains streamlined preview controls with split, preview-only, and edit modes, plus zoom controls for Mermaid diagrams and direct preview rendering from Copilot Chat. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Visual Studio Code 1.119](https://daily.dev/posts/visual-studio-code-1-119-mv62hgw6d) · Visual Studio Code · 2 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#markdown](https://daily.dev/tags/markdown), [#visual-studio](https://daily.dev/tags/visual-studio) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/visual-studio-january-update-i6ak5emou)