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Command palette

A fast, keyboard-driven way to find and run any command — core or plugin — without hunting through menus.

Using it

Open it with Ctrl+Shift+P, then start typing. The palette fuzzy-filters the list of every available command as you type; press Enter to run the highlighted one.

  • Commands that have a keyboard shortcut show it in the list, so the palette doubles as a way to learn shortcuts.
  • Every user-invocable action — core editing, plugin commands, view toggles — goes through the same command registry, so the palette reaches them all from one place.

One entry point

Because it covers every command, the palette is the single "go-to-anything" surface: if you can't remember where a command lives in the menus, press Ctrl+Shift+P and type a few letters of its name.

Go to File

Press Ctrl+P to jump to a file by name. The list shows the 200 best matches; on a large workspace keep typing to narrow it (a greyed last row says how many more there are). The list is fuzzy-filtered as you type and includes:

  • Open tabs (shown with their tab label),
  • the files in the open workspace folder — so you can open any project file without browsing for it first, and
  • recently opened files.

Workspace files show the file name with their path relative to the folder as sub-text. Common heavy or generated directories (.git, node_modules, build, out, dist, obj, target, …) are skipped — the list is yours to edit in Preferences ▸ Workspace — and the index is bounded so it stays fast on large projects. With no folder open, Ctrl+P lists open tabs and recent files only.

The workspace index is built in the background, so opening a big folder does not make you wait; until the new list is ready, Ctrl+P keeps showing the previous one. It refreshes on its own when the folder changes and when you save a file in it — see the Workspace plugin for the exact rules and for File ▸ Refresh Workspace Index.

Note

Type > at the start of the Ctrl+P query to switch to command search (the same entries as Ctrl+Shift+P).

Go to Symbol

The palette also jumps to code symbols — functions, classes, methods, variables — using the same query-and-Enter flow. This needs a language server for the file's language.

  • Ctrl+Shift+O — symbols in the current file. Lists every symbol in the open document; type to fuzzy-filter, Enter jumps to it. Each row shows the symbol's kind (Class, Method, Function…) and its container.
  • Ctrl+T — symbols across the workspace. Searches the whole project as you type (the language server matches the query); Enter opens the file at the symbol.

Long entries (qualified names, paths) get a horizontal scrollbar rather than being truncated. If no language server is available for the file, the symbol list is empty.