
Many of the suggested tips came from web developers - tips for the editors they used most frequently. ⌥ + Backspace deletes the whole word instead of letters by letters. ⌥ + up/down arrows allows to jump to the beginning/end of the paragraph Loris Gillet shared a few favorite shortcuts for hopping around or deleting text: ⌥ + forward/back arrows allows to jump to the next word instead of the next letter Hold Opt + Arrow Key to move word to word horizontally and block to block vertically.įrom Jo Frank: Select all occurences of current selection ( Ctrl + SHIFT + L in VSCode) and duplicate line/selection which I set up as Ctrl + D.

Hold Cmd + Arrow Key to move to the beginning/end of a line or top/bottom of a document. Ste Grainer shared a tip about the movement and selection shortcuts: The basic movement/selection shortcuts that many don’t know about: I’ve rounded up a few from the community below. Some of these will be editor or operating system specific, although in many cases you’ll be able to find a similar shortcut with the tools you are using. Many of you have favorite keyboard shortcuts. Here’s a roundup of what we’ve found quite useful along with a couple of other suggestions you may find handy.

We asked the Smashing Community for their favorite text editing tricks, shortcuts, and features that save them time. Thanks to everyone who took the time to reply and share their best-appreciated tools and techniques - we sincerely appreciate it! With so many great suggestions, we’ve decided to collect them all into one article so you can add it to your useful bookmarks.

We asked the Smashing Community for their favorite tips and tricks when editing text and code.
