I am writing this blog post because I am setting up a new Mac and I run into the little things that I take for granted but they are not available by default when you first install VS Code (my favorite editor!). I am so used to typing code foldername in the terminal to open a folder in VS Code. Or code filename to open a file. You can run the command from the Command Palette without a selection or on an empty line in which case this extension will simply run vscode's built-in toggle line comment command which will give the expected result. The label for the command which will appear in the Command Palette is 'Toggle Line Comments By Line in a Selection'. For Visual Studio Code (VSCode) users, the shortcut to comment out multiple lines is to highlight the lines you want to comment and then press: ctrl + / Pressing ctrl + / again can also be used to toggle comments off for one or more selected lines. We can select a block of code and use the key sequence Ctrl+K+C, it will comment out the section of code. Ctrl+K+U will uncomment the code. It will be a line comment. For Block Comment, we can select lines of code and use Shift+Alt+A.

I am writing this blog post because I am setting up a new Mac and I run into the little things that I take for granted but they are not available by default when you first install VS Code (my favorite editor!).

I am so used to typing code foldername in the terminal to open a folder in VS Code. Or code filename to open a file.

Today I did this, automatically, but the command was not found!

I had to go into VS Code, press cmd-option-P (or from the menu, View -> Command Palette and I searched “command” and there it was:

Shell Command: Install 'code' command in PATH

I pressed enter, and the command was now available in the terminal.

Vscode Comment Block Python

Happy coding!