How to navigate back to the last cursor position in Visual Studio Code?

Question

What is the keyboard shortcut navigate back to the last cursor position in Visual Studio Code?

Answer 1

With VSCode 1.43 (Q1 2020), those Alt+← / Alt+→, or Ctrl+- / Ctrl+Shift+- will also... preserve selection.

See issue 89699:

Benjamin Pasero (bpasero) adds:

going back/forward restores selections as they were.

Note that in order to get a history entry there needs to be at least 10 lines between the positions to consider the entry as new entry.