How to navigate through history of files in Visual Studio Code ?

How to navigate through history of files in Visual Studio Code ?

If you are playing around multiple files in Visual Studio Code, and wondering how to navigate back to the previous files, there is a simple way.  Visual Studio Code allows us to check the history of navigated files in Navigation History lists.  You can open this window from “Goto–> Navigation History” or by just simply pressing Ctrl + Tab. This will bring list of all previously navigated files with in Visual Studio Code.

image

Now, you can scroll through the list and select a specific file.

You Can Read :  A Quick Lap Around Visual Studio CodeA Quick Lap Around Visual Studio Code

Quickly Navigate Between Files :

You can easily navigate between the history files by using

  • Alt +  Left Arrow – Navigate To Previous File
  • Alt + Right Arrow – Navigate To Next  File

NavigateNextPrev

Navigation within Multiple Windows :

This navigation would also work fine when you have multiple windows open. You would be able to see the history of opened files on the respective tabs.

image

Abhijit Jana

Abhijit runs the Daily .NET Tips. He started this site with a vision to have a single knowledge base of .NET tips and tricks and share post that can quickly help any developers . He is a Former Microsoft ASP.NET MVP, CodeProject MVP, Mentor, Speaker, Author, Technology Evangelist and presently working as a .NET Consultant. He blogs at http://abhijitjana.net , you can follow him @AbhijitJana . He is the author of book Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide.

3 Comments to “How to navigate through history of files in Visual Studio Code ?”

Comments are closed.