The further you get a long in your development career, the more and more you begin to make use of keyboard shortcuts. Time is precious, and more so as you take on more responsibility and have more projects you need to work on.
How do you get faster? You code as fast as Sonic..
But since you'll never code that fast, you instead have to be like the rest of us not-fast-like-Sonic humans and memorize some keyboard shortcuts. Here is a collection of shortcuts that I've found handy in day to day work.
How do you get faster? You code as fast as Sonic..
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| How did he get here so fast? |
But since you'll never code that fast, you instead have to be like the rest of us not-fast-like-Sonic humans and memorize some keyboard shortcuts. Here is a collection of shortcuts that I've found handy in day to day work.
Copy and paste
Absolutely necessary. ctrl + c (copy) and ctrl + v (paste).
Create new folders
On Windows, when you are in Explorer (or File Explorer or Windows Explorer), which you can open up with the Windows key + e, ctrl + shift + n creates a new folder in the current directory you are viewing.
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| Creating that new folder on the fly |
Locking your PC
Getting up from your desk? You can't just rely on your privacy screen, you better lock your computer up. Hate that you have to hold down ctrl + alt + delete to lock up? Why not just lock your computer with the windows key + L.
Get to the Task Manager
ctrl + shift + esc. Boom.
Task view
What is task view? If you are like me and you haven't ever used it, you are surely missing out. Mac users, you've had this feature for a while but now its turn for Windows. Hit windows key + tab to get an expanded view of all the applications that are currently running on your desktop.
From this view you can choose which application you'd like to give focus to, or return from task view by clicking windows key + tab.
I prefer windows key + tab over alt + tab OR alt + shift + tab to cycle through my open applications. Give both a try and see if you like to use one or the other or both.
Hidden context menu
Shift + right click in an explorer window to get additional options. The options you will likely only care about here are open cmd/Powershell/shell here. There are other hidden context menu items but those are application specific (if you haven't installed the application or haven't checked you want additional context menu items, you won't see anything different here).
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| Handy! |
Close the application
This application needs to have focus, and won't get you l33t status; alt + f4.
Rename the selected item
Select the item (in explorer) and click f2. This works outside of just [Windows] explorer.
Refresh the active window
F5. Helpful if another application is adding/removing files from the directory you have open with explorer and the files are not showing in the explorer window.
Perform command
In applications, you can click alt + [any] letter to run the command that is defined. You will know which letter to click by looking at the underlined letters that appear after you click alt.
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| Using the command shortcut |
alt + f would open up the file menu, alt + s opens the test menu, etc.
More
Of course there are practically infinite number of shortcuts, but my brain can only hold onto so much. Are there any shortcuts that you've found helpful? Share them in the comments below.
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