How to navigate back to the last cursor position in Visual Studio Code

Question

What is the keyboard shortcut navigate back to the last cursor position in Visual Studio Code

User · Accepted Answer

The Keyboard Shortcut Commands are Go Forward and Go Back   On Windows  Alt      navigate back Alt      navigate forward On Mac  Ctrl -    navigate back Ctrl Shift -    navigate forward On Ubuntu Linux  Ctrl Alt -    navigate back Ctrl Shift -    navigate forward

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As an alternative to the keyboard shortcuts  here s an extension named  Back and Forward buttons  that adds the forward and back buttons to the status bar   https   marketplace visualstudio com items itemName grimmer vscode-back-forward-button

User · Answer

The answer for your question    Mac     Alt    For backward and  Alt    For forward navigation Windows    Ctrl -  For backward and  Ctrl Shift -  For forward navigation Linux    Ctrl Alt -  For backward and  Ctrl Shift -  For forward navigation    You can find out the current key-bindings following this link  You can even edit the key-binding as per your preference

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I am on Mac OSX  so I can t answer for windows users   I added a custom keymap entry and set it to Ctrl     Ctrl    while the original default is Ctrl - and Ctrl Shift -  which translates to Ctrl    and Ctrl Shift    on my german keyboard    One can simply modify it in the user keymap settings      key    ctrl left     command    workbench action navigateBack        key    ctrl right    command    workbench action navigateForward      For the accepted answer I actually wonder    Alt     Alt   jumps wordwise for me  which is kinda standard in all editors   Did they really do this mapping for the windows version

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Alt        You can find here all shortcuts  https   code visualstudio com docs customization keybindings

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You can go to File - gt  Preferences - gt  Keyboard Shortcut  Once you are there  you can search for navigate  Then  you will see all shortcuts set for your VS Code environment related to navigation  In my case  it was only Alt    -  to get my cursor back

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With VSCode 1 43  Q1 2020   those Alt     Alt    or  Ctrl -   Ctrl Shift - will also    preserve selection  See issue 89699  Benjamin Pasero  bpasero  adds   going back forward restores selections as they were  Note that in order to get a history entry there needs to be at least 10 lines between the positions to consider the entry as new entry

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This will be different for each OS  based on the information at https   code visualstudio com docs customization keybindings  Go Back  workbench action navigateBack Go Forward  workbench action navigateForward  Linux Go Back  Ctrl Alt - Go Forward  Ctrl Shift -   OSX  -     -  Windows Alt

User · Answer

U Undo last cursor operation  You can also try ctrl -  BTW all the shortcuts is here https   code visualstudio com shortcuts keyboard-shortcuts-macos pdf This is really useful

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Mac OS  MacBook Pro    Back  CTRL control    -  Hyphen   Back Forward  CTRL   Shift   -  Hyphen

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