It'd be handy if there was a keyboard shortcut for hiding and showing the sidebar. Sublime has cmd+k+b and it's a quick way of gaining some screen real estate when you need it. Anybody know if this exists or if the user can add it manually to VS Code?
The command can be triggered via Ctrl+B on Windows and Linux or Cmd+B on the Mac.
There are 3 bars on the side, 2 left and 1 right:
the activity bar with 5 buttons
the primary sidebar toggled by clicking any of the activity bar buttons.
the minimap
All of these hotkeys and more (e.g. the terminal & output panel, Ctrl+J) are now visible through the View (Alt-V) and View>Appearance menus:
The activity bar has no toggle hotkey by default, but you can assign one like this:
{
"key": "ctrl+alt+b",
"command": "workbench.action.toggleActivityBarVisibility"
},
Or hide completely with "workbench.activityBar.visible": false
The sidebar toggle hotkey is Ctrl+B by default, but may be overridden by e.g. vim plugin, here's how to enforce or change it:
{
"key": "ctrl+b",
"command": "workbench.action.toggleSidebarVisibility"
},
The minimap can be hidden with "editor.minimap.enabled": false and toggled with editor.action.toggleMinimap since vscode 1.16.
And with the Sidebar-activity toggler extension, so you toggle both activity and sidebar together with one key mapping to sidebar-activity-toggler.toggleSidebarAndActivityBar
To Hide the 5 button Activity Bar we can now:
View -> Hide Activity Bar
This is in vscode 1.9, not sure which version it was introduced in.
As Benjamin Pasero's answer states you can use:
Ctrl+B on Windows and Linux
⌘ Cmd+B on the Mac.
but sometimes you have another keyboard shortcut with ⌘ Cmd+B, in my case I had it to format some React code. To reverse that you can use the following:
Code > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts (⌘+K ⌘+S) then search for B and disable the other shortcut command.
You can also change the it and put which ever shortcut you want, just search for Toggle Side Bar Visibility like this:
Just in case you be intended for hiding the right lateral "sidebar", also called minimap, there is no shortcut. But you can configure the settings with:
{"editor.minimap.enabled: false"}
One can also hide the activity bar with the following setting in settings.json:
"workbench.activityBar.visible": false
To hide/show the side bar:
Ctrl+B on Linux and Windows.
⌘ Cmd+B on Mac.
No need to edit Settings.json directly
Do the following:
Open the Keyboard Shortcuts by pressing ctrl+k & ctrl+s
Search: "Toggle Activity Bar Visibility"
Enter the keyboard shortcut
Done!
Activity bar visibility in visual studio code
Mac users,
⌘ + B or
⌘ + 0 - Worked Perfectly
In the VS code version 1.43, you can hide or show the side menu or activity bar by going under the 'VIEW' tab in the nav bar in the top margin of VS CODE(called the 'Menu Bar'). Go to View => Appearance, there you can check or uncheck different nav bars to show/hide each one.
If you have the top bar (Menu Bar) currently hidden press 'alt' key to bring it back then follow above instructions to check it to keep it there permanently if desired.
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Under "Repository" the shortcut is shown as Ctrl+` but as the back tick (grave accent) character is typed with Shift+´ in Finnish/Swedish keyboard layout this doesn't seem to work. I've also tried to use Ctrl+§ but with no success. Is there some way to change the shortcut?
It turns out that Ctrl+` shortcut can be executed by pressing Ctrl+ö on keyboard using Finnish/Swedish layout.
In Sublime when cycling through tabs using ctrl-tab it opens and shows the file as I cycle through them. In Atom it shows a pane / list of the recently viewed files. I want to turn this off and just have it cycle through the files and display them as I press ctrl-tab like Sublime. How do I do this?
Go to File > Keymap...
Enter in the following code:
'body':
'ctrl-tab': 'unset!'
'ctrl-tab ^ctrl': 'unset!'
This should disable the pane feature completely.
If you want to cycle through the tabs, you press CTRL+PAGEDOWN for left to right; and CTRL+PAGEUP from right to left.
If you want to change the keybind entirely, as in you want to use CTRL+TAB to cycle through the tabs, you can insert this snippet into the Keymap:
'body':
'ctrl-tab': 'pane:show-next-item'
Move tabs settings (Settings > Packages > Tabs)
and uncheck 'Display MRU Tab Switching List'
There is a shortcut in XCode to make the code editor (or at least, the current focused window panel) full screen*? In Netbeans, this functionality is achieved with shift+esc: the focused panel expands, hiding other panels.
Thanks in advance.
*Not in the sense of "full screen" Mac OS feature, but the editor panel takes all the visible area, hiding other panels (like the Navigation panel, Property panel, etc).
You can create a new Behavior and assign a shortcut to it. At the top menu, select Xcode > Behaviors > Edit Behaviors...:
In the screenshot, I assigned it a shortcut key of Cmd + Esc but you can choose anything you want.
As far as I know there is not one button to do it all.
You can double click on the file and it will open a new editor window with just the text.
These three combinations will close each of the major three panels:
Command + 0 - Hide/show the Navigator
Shift + Command + Y - Hide/Show the Debug area
Alt + Command + 0 - Hide/Show the Utilities
You can change these in XCode -> Preferences -> Key Bindings
Hello My xcode is showing the screen in half and also not showing storyboard interface builder. below is the screenshot
I have tried to reset the xcode settings as well
defaults delete com.apple.dt.Xcode
But it didn't work. Please tell me how can I fix this
These three buttons up here switch your view. Select the left one.
You're actually stuck in the version editor (which looks at your version repository compared with your current code.)
Because storyboard UI can't be viewed with the interface, it shows the underlying xml.
Also the keyboard shortcut is command + enter (credit to farzadshbfn)
Try click on "Show Standard Editor" button:
Main Storyboard > Right click > Open As > interface Builder - Storyboard
Click First button to show your view controller.
In Xcode 5 you could show the bottom view and show the debugger console. But in xcode 6 I'm getting no data when running on the simulator. What gives?
Go to XCode -> Preferences -> Behaviors -> Select “Starts” in Running -> Select “Show” debugger With “Variables & Console View”
than select the "Hide or show the Debug area" Button
and Now click on Small Arrow Button
i think it might be helpful in your case.
For more info you can see here.
Nothing of the above worked for me, but Rob´s answer helped me to find the solution.
I had to activate the console in View > Debug Area > Activate Console (shift-command-C)
In addition to Bhumit's answer, you can also choose View > Debug Area > Show Debug Area from the menu bar.
The default keyboard shortcut to show or hide the debug area is ⇧⌘Y (shift-command-Y).
You can click on small triangle at the bottom to see the console.
You can also use the keyboard shortcut ⌘⇧Y