
This is a brilliant feature enabling you to copy key mappings for the programmes you use all the time and save you from learning the Code key mappings. Issueing this command on a highlight without selecting any text will remove the highlight. If you get it wrong and Press CTRL + K + M then you will open the Extensions search for keymaps. Toggle Highlight ( Command ID: textmarker.toggleHighlight) Highlight selected text, if no text is selected, the word under cursor will be highlighted.

(CTRL + K) was pressed waiting for second key of chord…… You will know you are doing correctly when you see Just to be clear, because people sometimes get this wrong. You will still be able to change the language with CTRL K, m Once you have entered the new settings save the file (CTRL + S) and then any new file you open will be using the language you have chosenĪnd now every new file that you open will be opened as a PowerShell file (or whichever language you choose) For other languages, click on the language in the bottom bar and look at the value in the brackets next to the language name NOTE – You will need to enter powershell and not PowerShell. Click on that and then Copy to Settings which will copy it to your user settings in the right hand pane. If you hover over the setting that you want to change, you will see a little pencil. Search in the bar for default and scroll down until you see file However, if you just want your new file to open as a particular language every time you can change this in the settings. Then you can choose the language for the file.

That’s CTRL and K together and then M afterwards separately. To change the language for the file use CTRL +K, M. When you open a new file in VS Code (Using CTRL + N) it opens by default as a plain text file. You can now just use the preference setting faultLanguage to set the default language There have been updates since this post!!!!
