I can’t think of anything more pointless than geeking out and writing a blog about shortcuts for Visual Studio, a coding software IDE that anyone who knows WTF I’m talking about is far more efficient at than I am.

We’re likely on the precipice of entirely new interface paradigms emerging, maybe the future of development is simply talking to the machine, or maybe it’s plugging your spine directly into the ethernet port. Who knows!?

But for now, this is what we got, and I still find the whole loadout for these key tools so fascinatingly terrible, and I want to do these hotkeys right, because for the coming year or more i’ll likely be still shackled to these things and it’s driven me mad that there are no resources for this stuff. 

From what I gather, the general sentiment is interfaces are horrendous to set up so people just adopt the base setups as is or for most all of these crazed softwares.

So as we’ve brazenly posted in previous blogs, is that we’re so much better around here and we’re going to be the change that we want to see, and we’re just so wonderful and if only the world wasn’t so dumb. I’m such a snob.

But what can you do?

Well I’m going to write a stupid neckbeard post about hotkeys that isn’t going to help anyone at all, no one’s going to find interesting, and anyone that can understand what i’m writing is going to be an even bigger neckbeard and be ready to tell me all the myriad of ways that I’m a nub and that ACTUALLY my coding practices should be entirely different and I’m doing absolutely everything wrong at a base level and I should stop polluting the internet with my annoying opinions.

Good god do I love this welcoming and friendly gamedev space we have created for ourselves.

So anyway, here goes the tutorial for setting up hotkeys after having spent a couple days letting setting this stuff up and trying to do my work like playing a game of QWOP, falling on my face and not remembering WTF any of my hotkeys do any more. I honestly have no idea what I’m doing with my life XD.

=======STEP 1: CREATE THE HOTKEY FOR YOUR HOTKEYS!=======

Yo dawg, we heard you like hotkeys…

The first step to venturing the nightmare of Visual Studio hotkeys is to make the hotkey settings themselves relatively accessable because once you start tinkering with this, THERE WILL BE PAIN. You will map the wrong keys, you will map keys only to find some outside features are disabling their use, you will need to go back and forth with google or AI as you ask WTF these things you want to do are even named. You will accidentally press accept instead of assign and you will likely lose multiple hotkey assignments as they are all bulk assigned at the end and it can be easy to accidentally undo as you navigate this ordeal.

So since we love HOTKEYS here’s the HOTKEY for your HOTKEYS! Let’s start by using a default hotkey that isn’t absolutely terrible and press Control + Q. This will open a quicklaunch window, and from here if you type “shortcut” it SHOULD show you an option like in the image above where you can double click it and it will bring up the hotkey customize window. You will grow to loathe this interface as I, in due time if you decide to take this terrible, terrible journey of keyboard customization.

See that searchbar that says “Show commands containing” go ahead and write “keyboard” again and you’ll notice that VS (Visual Studio) will give you every command that shares that name. Here we want to highlight “Tools.CustomizeKeyboard”, and it will show us multiple very important fields. We’ll get to that later, for now, let’s just get that keyboard button made!

Where it says, “Press Shortcut Keys” go ahead and think of a key, or likely combination of keys that will act as the instigator for customizing your hotkeys, I used “CTRL + SHIFT + K” to start and ended up with “CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + K” as my system evolved. 

Bear in mind, there are no special fields to show you the changes you’ve made thus far for quick iterations to existing keys, every time you seek to change something new or existing, you must type their proper names into the field, and hunt down the specific feature you want, often times with many similarly named commands for differing contexts. (It’s hard not to get side tracked, but this is important info!)

So anyway, let’s go ahead and assign your keyboard key for now, just do whatever feels right to you! You’ll likely change it in the future, and that’s great! The only way to find the optimal setup for ourselves, is to iterate, see what works, see what doesn’t and learn why it doesn’t work along the way. And it’s going to be an absolute hell ride along the way because this arduous process doesn’t get any better!

==STEP 2: DEVELOPING A SANE WORKFLOW FOR CREATING HOTKEYS==

As we create our hotkeys, we are going to forget where we stuck certain keys, we’re going to forget the dag’gon’ name of the commands we want to adjust to new hotkeys, we’re sometimes going to have ideas for new hotkeys that we want to try in the future, and we’re going to forget which hotkeys we’ve already assigned to other stuff!

So to keep track of all these things and to build solid coding foundations in Visual Studio, let’s go ahead and start using a few other innate features like TASKS and COMMENTING to help us to BOOKMARK our HOTKEYS for rapid iteration, assignment and cataloging of existing loadouts.

Hope you’re getting the hang of it so far, because I’m not going to go  through the entire process each and every step! Above shows the quickbar where I typed “Task” selected the tools > Tasks command where it brings up the task window. Here we’re going to make a new task type that I really enjoy that is simply a period! So in that new task window just type in the period and press “Create”.

Now find the bottom of one of your main scripts, and comment a new section and at the top type our new Task type “//.”:

//. <<Important!

//=======KEYBOARD HOTKEY MEGA PAIN AREA===========

//LEGEND:

//**: Important

//===MAIN KEYS===

// CTRL + SHIFT + ALT: KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS MENU 

// CTRL + SHIFT + T: TASK LIST (press at the start to load)

// ALT + E : Navigate Task Bookmarks

I’ve included the default task list hotkeys here, CTRL + SHIFT + T. By default, Visual Studio won’t load these secondary bookmarks, so if you want this to work, you need to open the window at the start of your session! Now go ahead and create another shortcut to cycle these tasks, Here’s one more visual to show the process, but hopefully you’re starting to get the gyst by now!

Alright, we’re starting to rock and roll now! We’ve got our hotkey to jump back into hotkeys and finagle new custom command inputs, and we’ve got a central information hub to help us keep track of all this growing madness!

Now it starts to become vital that we learn the limits of these features, and the kinks that can arise moving forward!

There is no right and wrong solution here, after all, the whole point of creating custom hotkeys is to find something that works for YOU! 

In a perfect world, there would be a slew of base loadouts to choose from and we could customize different types of hotkey sets to our liking, but this world is far from perfect! So we’ll just do it ourselves! As they say, if you want something done right, do it yourself!

So what are these considerations that are so gosh darn important!?

Well, there are quite a few things that can go terribly wrong, some we already hinted at like needing to keep track of what we’ve already assigned, but there are other important things to know, like if you want certain keys to be instant press with just a few features in conjunction with SHIFT, CTRL, or ALT, orrrrrrrrrrrrrrr… if we want certain keys to be portals to HUNDREDS of potential commands by using Visual Studios multi press input system!

Credit where it’s due. Most of this process is an absolute NIGHTMARE, but the actual functionality provided is pretty neat. We can assign a CHAIN of button presses in order to multiply the functionality of a single button by a factor of over 100!

What this means is you can go totally nuts mapping your keyboard with commands that are instant and do relevant and impactful things with a single press in conjunction with SAC (Shift, Alt, or Control). And you can use other keys that are easily accessed like Space, Backspace, Tab, ~, etc to do all manner of contextual stuffs!

So as we move forward, think about what keys you’d want to use as easily reached insta keys, and which keys you want to be springboard keys requiring multiple button presses, but taking you to endless potential commands.

=STEP 3: WHAT’S THE DARN COMMAND CALLED? MAKE SOME HOTKEYS!=

Before we make a hotkey, first we gotta find the darn command! And that can often times be a real pain. Some of these can be darn near impossible to find, and in these cases it makes sense to ask google or other search tools for help!

I know AI is a touchy subject, but in some cases, it’s the only way to get data with any reliability. I don’t advocate you replace yourself with AI, if I thought AI were the best way to do things, I wouldn’t be advocating for you to get better and use hotkeys! But in this day and age, it’s not going away, and I’m beginning to believe that there are ethical means of using AI for mundane things like looking up hotkey command names for a feature that has very poor documentation. You can use google, but it can be REALLY Hit and miss, you’re better off using CoPilot or ChatGPT or Grok.

Now that you’re able to find what these commands are actually called, go ahead and start making some hotkeys!

Now is a good time to export your project and make a backup of your current hotkey layout, you can always revert to default, but this is a process you want to become familiar with now, so you don’t lose all your hard work as you make changes! 

This process can be brutal and you may make a mistake or encounter a bug (I tried to get fancy and remove the arrow keys from character navigation and entered a new world of pain where I could not reassign the arrow keys).

So make backups of your hotkeys, a great way to have the file always on hand so you can load it anywhere you go is to email it to yourself with an easily searched title line!

Try to be fast and loose when you’re just starting, find what works for you, if you enjoy the double press hotkeys or the instant press ones, and see which buttons you find most comfortable, as well as which modifier SAC keys you enjoy most. Think about the commands you would use the most and would enjoy the most! This is the entire point! And put the keys you like the most on the best real estate!

As you add these keys, don’t forget to fill out the hotkey map that we started earlier, and add the name you found with them next to the key assignment! This way if you want to change it in the future, you won’t have to google it again!

=============STEP 4: RESTRICTIONS AND KINKS!=============

Wait, some of the hotkeys I just made might be broken? Yep!

Why didn’t you frickin’ warn me about this earlier!? Well who wants to friggin’ sit around being lectured about technicalities all day long, at some point we had to get to makin’ stuff!

So here are some important things to know about your hotkeys and why you should prefer certain keys, and not others.

ALT can be really finicky! If you press it in the mind of wanting to string it to a hotkey, then decide mid motion that you actually don’t want to do the thing, well now you’re not focused on the work place and you’ll be in the menu commands. You can do that here if you like! Go ahead and press alt and notice how your cursor finds it’s way to the top of the webpage on various buttons and settings!

Because of this, you should be very careful about using ALT exclusively as a “SAC” mode for keyboard buttons. The less you’re pressing ALT alone to press other keys, the less it’s going to disrupt your workflow, I recommend not using it at all except for one specific case we’ll get to later. But don’t be shy about PAIRING it with other qualifiers like Shift and Control!

Don’t use “S”! It’s used by many save functions and you don’t want to conflict with this.

Likewise stay away from control for many buttons. You don’t want to fight with COPY, CUT, PASTE and other key features!

Spacebar is a FANTASTIC springboard key. I love using Shift and control as starting combo SACs for it. For example I use “SHIFT + SPACEBAR” followed by “S” to access the “SURROUND” command, which allows you to quickly surround logic with regions or if statements, or whatever! It’s super handy!

If we for example want to create a region for the above hotkey area we started earlier we simply have to highlight the section of code press “SHIFT + SPACEBAR” followed by “S” after assigning our new hotkey to “Surround” 

#region ====My HOTKEYS=== (Smokin’ HAWT)

//===MAIN KEYS===

// CTRL + SHIFT + ALT: KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS MENU 

// CTRL + SHIFT + T: TASK LIST (press at the start to load)

// ALT + E : Navigate Task Bookmarks

#endregion

Now  you may have noticed I accidentally typed shift here, but in the screenshot I listed CTRL + SPACEBAR! I TOTALLY did that on purpose to prove a point. As we’re setting up these hotkeys, it becomes important to log our hotkeys so we can find them again when we’ve forgotten them!

So quick refresher, we press SHIFT + CTRL + T to initialize our task bookmark to wherever the heck we put our hotkey legend. Then we press ALT + E to wisk ourselves other there, and then we will have access to all the keys we’re arranging.

As we start becoming more comfortable, we can start adding more hotkeys that we haven’t even assigned yet! This way we know where we have empty slots to put more features we might want!

I’m still in the process of developing my loadout so I’m focusing mostly on the left hand arrangement right now for the most core features, as it frees me up to use the mouse here and there on the right hand, so my setup right now reflects that. If you don’t use a mouse, or have any sort of personal taste for what buttons you want setup in interesting new ways, go for it!

So often people look over guides like these and see them as paint by numbers, “Oh so this is how I have to set things up.” NO! Find what works for you, think outside the box. Maybe you think using tasks as bookmarks is dumb! It probably is! You can always remove the usual TODO type bookmarks and add them back to get them back as bookmarks for tasks and have a sort of rotating bookmark system that you can overlay with others on a whil. But we’re getting off topic!

So this is hardly perfect, but here’s an example of what I’ve got going after being in the thick of it for a couple days trying to find a better base hotkey setup:

    // ============CTRL + ALT + Shift===============

    // CTRL + Shift + ALT + A = EMPTY

    // CTRL + Shift + ALT + S = TAKEN (Save)

    // CTRL + Shift + ALT + D = EMPTYS!)

    // CTRL + Shift + ALT + Z = EMPTY

    // CTRL + Shift + ALT + X = EMPTY

    // CTRL + Shift + ALT + C = EMPTY

    // CTRL + Shift + ALT + F = Format**

    // CTRL + Shift + ALT + Q = EMPTY

    // CTRL + Shift + ALT + W = EMPTY

    // CTRL + Shift + ALT + E = EMPTY

    // CTRL + Shift + ALT + R = GOTO Next Error

    // CTRL + Shift + ALT + B = bookmark VIEW

    // CTRL + Shift + ALT + P = Restore closed tab

    //==================

    // CTRL + Shift + ALT + 1 = Empty;

    // CTRL + Shift + ALT + 2 = Empty;

    // CTRL + Shift + ALT + 3 = Empty;

    // CTRL + Shift + ALT + 4 = Empty;

    // CTRL + Shift + ALT + 5 = Empty;

    // CTRL + Shift + ALT + 6 = Empty;

    // CTRL + Shift + ALT + 7 = Empty;

    // CTRL + Shift + ALT + 8 = Empty;

    // CTRL + Shift + ALT + 9 = Empty;

    // CTRL + Shift + ALT + 0 = Empty; 

As you can see, I’ve got TONS of keys I haven’t even used yet! And this doesn’t even include keys like M, N, and the entire row of function keys! You can have HUNDREDS of shortcuts and not even use two button press hotkeys if you’re not a fan.

I actually really like the double press keys in many situations, because at some point it becomes hotkey overload and there are a SLEW of hotkeys that I need that letter signifier to job my memory.

Remember that “SURROUND” function we talked about earlier? PERFECT example of a hotkey you might want to assign as a double press hotkey. We’re not going to be using it all the time, and if we find that we DO end up using it more often, we can always reassign it! 

But hotkeys can become overwhelming, so it becomes a real boon when you can link certain hotkeys to specific letters. S for “S”urround. B for “B”ookmark.

Expand on this concept by trying to give certain springboard buttons a theme.

Like maybe you VERY RARELY need to build the solution, but you forget where the build button is hypothetically and you want a hotkey for it. Well let’s make a springboard button for very rare occurrences like this, we’ll make that button “F4”. And we’re follow F4 with B for build. We will associate F4 with commands that we use very rarely, and the letter associated with it will correlate with that command like B for “B”uild.

Now let’s say some time passes and we find there just aren’t enough letters to go around, we can create ANOTHER layer using F4 by using SAC buttons! The possibilities are endless!

But wait! Looks like there’s a problem here. As we press F4 into the keyboard shortcut editor to start our new hotkey, it shows at the bottom that F4 is already in use.

Conflicting hotkeys will override our new hotkeys! Making them impossible to trigger. So what we need to do, is whenever we’re trying to make a new hotkey, we need to ensure overrides don’t exist by putting in combinations of the keys one by one like CTRL + K, ALT + K, SHIFT + K. Look for existing hotkeys that are not double press hotkey combos and remove them from those commands or you will have conflicts preventing your hotkeys from working.

==Step 5: GET CRAZY WITH IT!==

Visual studio allows your to change all sorts of foundational inputs, you can even remap the navigation of your code to supplement the arrow keys! Imagine being able to move about your code without ever having to take your hands off the home row!

I’ve done just that and I’m quickly falling in love with it as I fall on my face because I’m still getting used to it.

And to accomplish this we’re going to create a new Up, Down, Left, Right setup!

The WASD setup is classic, but there are a couple key reasons not to use this! WASD requires shifting your fingers away from the home key, and the whole point of creating custom hotkeys is to find the perfect setup! It’s also going to have lots of issues with “S, A, and D” all being so KEY to important actions you’re likely already using with muscle memory. Select all, Saving, duplicate… We don’t want to get in the way of those.

But what about J, K, L, and I? Those buttons aren’t used for jack! Well visual studio uses them for various weird things, but after a bit of time, you can clear those away and open up the keyboard for much more interesting setups!

It took some experimenting but I found a pretty nice setup. The big hurdle here is that we need those base keys for typing actual letters for much of the time, so unlike the arrows, we can’t just assign “I” to “up” like the up arrow key. But what we can do is modify the input with our “SAC”s to allow for contextual text navigation.

The key commands are called “Edit.LineUp”, “Edit.LineDown”, “Edit.CharLeft”, “Edit.CharRight”. These are the base, “Move the text cursor around a single space” commands. This is that rare exception that I suggest you use ALT + J,K,L,I to accomplish this in those 4 directions.

Unfortunately, VS doesn’t automagically combine SHIFT with these commands to allow for highlighting, you will now have to go one by one and set each of these directional movements to work with “Extents”

Luckily, if you’ve got the forethought, you can set many of these up at the same time. So as you set ALT + J to “Edit.CharLeft” you can also set SHIFT + ALT + J to “Edit.CharLeftExtents”.

So go ahead and give that a try! Before you get in too deep, try it with just a single button and see how that feels, see if it conflicts with any other key features and if you can see yourself adopting it in the long run. If something feels REALLY bad at the start, you’re likely not going to be able to grow into it even with lots of practice, so try to find things that at least KINDA work for you out of the gate. 

DON’T FORCE IT!

If we try to force ourselves to use bizarre but perfectly organized setups, chances are we will actually HURT our productivity, and how horrible would that be to spend all this time to make our workflow WORSE?

Maybe you try the right hand home row cursor navigation and think it’s terrible! Oh well, no big loss because your arrow keys still work! You can blow these hotkeys away and assign them to other stuff now! Just remember to keep your hotkey atlas updated!

Ok, back to getting our JKLI keys working.

Often times we don’t JUST want to go character by character, so we’re also going to want to add “Edit.WordPrevious” and this is just like before, but instead of ALT, we’re going to use CTRL. This will allow us to scrub word by word just like SHIFT + the ARROW keys! And while we’e doing that we might as well the “Extents” version of these commands too with CTRL + SHIFT + JKLI.

It takes a little getting used to but with a little practice, you can be zipping around your document in no time!

I went ahead and added “Edit.LineStart” and “Edit.LineEnd” to U and O, with the mods of shift as well as control, not together, but so either one can trigger these since I kept confusing them! At some point i’ll figure out which one I prefer and I can remove the other variation and use it for something else if I so choose.

But wait, we’re not quite done yet! Did you know there’s a way of parsing by SUBWORD!? You can actually scrub to just the next capital letter! I didn’t know this till recently, and we can get that functionality for our new keys, the default is CTRL + ALT + Left / Right. And what it does is allows you to go to the next capital letter in properties with camel style capitalization, which is super handy!

To achieve this with our new letter hotkeys, we can assign to “Edit.(Next/Previous)SubWord as well as “Edit.(Next/Previous)SubWordExtents” for our J and L keys. For these we’re going to use CTRL + ALT, and CTRL + SHIFT + ALT for the extents versions.

Whew, that’s a lot of work to get these new navigation keys up and running, but holy moly! It feels so nice to navigate without leaving the home keys!

And we can go even further! What about other things like page up/ page down!? You can put them anywhere you have a free spot that makes sense to you! I’m not gong to tell you where I put them, BE YOUR OWN PERSON FOR ONCE DARN IT!

I did remap delete and backspace, which Visual studio calls “Delete” and “DeleteBackwards”.

Oh, Visual Studio, you sweet summer child, you are so friggin’ special sometimes.

I remapped these to ALT + F and ALT + D respectively. I know I told you guys to stay away from the ALT key, but for my tiny hands, I find it by far the most comfortable, and so long as you limit to keys you plan to use ALL THE TIME and not to make mistakes with, it’s not too big a problem. If you assign the surrounding keys with dummy hotkeys that do the same thing or nothing at all, you can prevent ALT error presses from taking out of your flow!

I know, it’s an endless rabbit hole. But who am I even talking to!? I don’t expect anyone to really read this or get anything out of it. But for whatever reason, I just felt oddly compelled to write this up.

I took quite an adventure the past few days wishing I’d had a resource on how to do this hotkey stuff and I had to learn the hard way and it took like 4x longer than it should have! So whatever.

In a perfect world, you would type in “movecursor” and it would bring up all the stuff I detailed above in one convenient list in the hotkey window! But what sort of goofball tries to change the key movement away from the hotkeys!?

It is VERY MUCH a work in progress, but if anyone wants to use my setup as a starting point you can find it here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ra-ytkZoBC8PoWMu9uU73WyDwSBctETi/view?usp=shari...

WARNING: I have blown away MANY of the default hotkeys many be accustomed to, those would require adding back and there is no easy means of setting specific commands back to default: 

You might try it and immediately think it’s HORRIBLE and if that’s the case, SORRY FOR WASTING YOUR TIME! But hopefully you learned a few neat tricks regarding shortcut keys in Visual Studio, or just in general you can apply to other software before AI takes over the world!

Final thoughts!

Goes without saying, but I’m a huge keyboard dork, and most programs drive me CRAZY with their default keyboard. I think it’s a crime that we do not have a few other loadouts easily loaded right out of the box for legacy users, optimized more ergonomic newer versions, and secondary loadouts for trying zany new ideas!

Seems like such a waste that every program just gets stuck in its crazy outlandish hotkey setup and they never improve it because it would break the legions of users current loadouts that are used to the abysmal state of things as they are.

But what can ya do!? Well, I figured I could try something a bit better, so here it is, on a website few will stumble upon, and likely no one will find it relevant, haha. I COULD post it somewhere where other coders would likely see it, but good lord do I dislike the rampant bickering of neckbeards.

It really makes ya wonder, how much has this practice of coding stifled because a bunch of know it all neckbeards shut everyone around them up because they thought they were god’s gift to processes and logic.

BUT YOU KNOW ME! I CAN’T COMPLAIN!

//Legend

//Go to Tools > Options > Text Editor > C# (or your language) > Code Style > Formatting > General.

//Uncheck Automatically format on paste.

//Optionally, uncheck Perform additional code cleanup during formatting under Code Cleanup.

// HOTKEYS:

// Control + Shift + K = Edit Shortcuts

// Control + R = SurroundWith

//================ CTRL + Shift + K = BRING UP KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ================

//================ CTRL + Shift + K = BRING UP KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ================

//**=IMPORTANT

//==============KEY KEYS=====================

// P= Pin and Close Tabs

// H = Open Vertical Groups

// Brackets = swap between     

// CTRL+SPACE = Slow Input

#region TwitchInput

// ============CTRL===============

// CTRL + A = TAKEN (Select All, YA DINGUS!)

// CTRL + S = TAKEN (Save, YA DINGUS!)

// CTRL + D = TAKEN (Duplicate, YA DINGUS!)

// CTRL + Z = TAKEN (Undo, YA DINGUS!)

// CTRL + X = TAKEN (Cut, YA DINGUS!)

// CTRL + C = TAKEN (Copy, YA DINGUS!)

// CTRL + F = TAKEN (Find, YA DINGUS!)

// CTRL + E = NAVIGATE BACKWARDS**

// CTRL + W = NAVIGATE FORWARD**

// CTRL + B = bookmark VIEW

// CTRL + H = HIDE

//==================

// CTRL + 1 = Empty;

// CTRL + 2 = Empty;

// CTRL + 3 = Empty;

// CTRL + 4 = Empty;

// CTRL + 5 = Empty;

// CTRL + 6 = Empty;

// CTRL + 7 = Empty;

// CTRL + 8 = Empty;

// CTRL + 9 = Empty;

// CTRL + 0 = Empty;

// ============BOOKMARKS===============

// ALT + 1 - 0 = GOTO Bookmarks

// Shift + ALT + 1 - 0 = Save Bookmarks

// Alt + Q = Set Bookmark            BOOKMARKS! 

// Alt + W = bookmark Previous       BOOKMARKS!   

// Alt + E = bookmark Next           BOOKMARKS!

// Alt + B = bookmark VIEW           BOOKMARKS!   adf a 

// CTRL + B = bookmark VIEW          BOOKMARKS! 

// ============ALT===============

// ALT + 1 - 0 = GOTO Bookmarks

// ALT + A = EMPTY

// ALT + S = Clear Line

// ALT + D = Highlight Line

// ALT + Z = EMPTY

// ALT + X = Collapse All

// ALT + C = EMPTY

// Alt + F = EXPAND/ CLOSE **

// Alt + Q = Set Bookmark            BOOKMARKS! 

// Alt + W = bookmark Previous       BOOKMARKS!   

// Alt + E = bookmark Next           BOOKMARKS!

// Alt + B = bookmark VIEW           BOOKMARKS!   

// CTRL + B = bookmark VIEW          BOOKMARKS! 

// ============SHIFT + ALT===============

// Shift + ALT + 1 - 0 = Save Bookmarks

// Shift + ALT + A = EMPTY

// Shift + ALT + S = Surround With

// Shift + ALT + D = Collapse selection

// Shift + ALT + Z = EMPTY

// Shift + ALT + X = EMPTY

// Shift + ALT + C = EMPTY

// Shift + ALT + Q = EMPTY

// Shift + ALT + W = load bookmark panel

// Shift + ALT + E = GOTO next task () ******

// ============CTRL + ALT===============

// CTRL + ALT + A = EMPTY

// CTRL + ALT + S = EMPTY

// CTRL + ALT + D = EMPTY

// CTRL + ALT + Z = EMPTY

// CTRL + ALT + X = Collapse ALL

// CTRL + ALT + C = EMPTY

// CTRL + ALT + Q = EMPTY

// CTRL + ALT + W = EMPTY

// CTRL + ALT + E = EMPTY

// ============CTRL + Shift===============

// CTRL + Shift + A = EMPTY

// CTRL + Shift + S = TAKEN (Save)

// CTRL + Shift + D = EMPTYS!)

// CTRL + Shift + Z = EMPTY

// CTRL + Shift + X = EMPTY

// CTRL + Shift + C = EMPTY

// CTRL + Shift + F = Format**

// CTRL + Shift + Q = EMPTY

// CTRL + Shift + W = EMPTY

// CTRL + Shift + E = EMPTY

// CTRL + Shift + B = EMPTY

// CTRL + Shift + P = Close all but pinned

//==================

// CTRL + Shift + 1 = Empty;

// CTRL + Shift + 2 = Empty;

// CTRL + Shift + 3 = Empty;

// CTRL + Shift + 4 = Empty;

// CTRL + Shift + 5 = Empty;

// CTRL + Shift + 6 = Empty;

// CTRL + Shift + 7 = Empty;

// CTRL + Shift + 8 = Empty;

// CTRL + Shift + 9 = Empty;

// CTRL + Shift + 0 = Empty;

// ============CTRL + ALT + Shift===============

// CTRL + Shift + ALT + A = EMPTY

// CTRL + Shift + ALT + S = TAKEN (Save)

// CTRL + Shift + ALT + D = EMPTYS!)

// CTRL + Shift + ALT + Z = EMPTY

// CTRL + Shift + ALT + X = EMPTY

// CTRL + Shift + ALT + C = EMPTY

// CTRL + Shift + ALT + F = Format**

// CTRL + Shift + ALT + Q = EMPTY

// CTRL + Shift + ALT + W = EMPTY

// CTRL + Shift + ALT + E = EMPTY

// CTRL + Shift + ALT + R = GOTO Next Error

// CTRL + Shift + ALT + B = bookmark VIEW

// CTRL + Shift + ALT + P = Restore closed tab

//==================

// CTRL + Shift + ALT + 1 = Empty;

// CTRL + Shift + ALT + 2 = Empty;

// CTRL + Shift + ALT + 3 = Empty;

// CTRL + Shift + ALT + 4 = Empty;

// CTRL + Shift + ALT + 5 = Empty;

// CTRL + Shift + ALT + 6 = Empty;

// CTRL + Shift + ALT + 7 = Empty;

// CTRL + Shift + ALT + 8 = Empty;

// CTRL + Shift + ALT + 9 = Empty;

// CTRL + Shift + ALT + 0 = Empty;  

// ============SHIFT + CTRL + ALT===============

// ================BOOKMARKS=================

//  Alt + Shift + # set local Bookmark

//  Alt + # gotolocal Bookmark

#endregion

#region Control + Space

// ============CTRL + SPACE===============

// CTRL + SPACE + S = SURROUND

// CTRL + SPACE + X = CollapseToDefinition 

#endregion

//. HOTKEYS TO ADD

// TO ADD

// CONTINUE TO ADD COOL STFF AND IMPROVE WORKFLOW

// Remap existing commonly used keys like shift + f12

// CREATE NEW HOTKEY FOR DELETE/ PRACTICE HITTING BACKSPACE WITH PINKEY

// create multiple vetical indexes (alt + arrow key) 

// move end and home to U and O

// New End and Home

// Goto next/ last function

// Split screen vertically

/////////  TAB CLOSING/ Pin TAB: P variations

What am I doing with my life XD?

EDIT: I SPENT ALL DAMN DAY TRYING TO THINK OF THE SONG THAT IS SIMILAR TO THE 2:13 SECOND MARK OF THE RAMMSTIEN SONG ABOVE AND IT JUST CAME TO ME OUT OF NOWHERE

2:00 minute mark

No work done today, haven't been able to sleep of late. I'm about to pop 20 MG of melatonin and hope that forces my body to  get some damn sleep so we can get back to the grind.