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

You can go to File -> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcut. Once you are there, you can search for navigate. Then, you will see all shortcuts set for your VS Code environment related to navigation. In my case, it was only Alt + - to get my cursor back.

Answer 2

As an alternative to the keyboard shortcuts, here's an extension named "Back and Forward buttons" that adds the forward and back buttons to the status bar:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=grimmer.vscode-back-forward-button

Answer 3

Alt+← / →

You can find here all shortcuts

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/customization/keybindings

Answer 4

This will be different for each OS, based on the information at https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/customization/keybindings

Go Back: workbench.action.navigateBack Go Forward: workbench.action.navigateForward

Linux Go Back: Ctrl+Alt+-
Go Forward: Ctrl+Shift+-

OSX ⌃- / ⌃⇧-

Windows Alt+ ← / →

Answer 5

The Keyboard Shortcut Commands are Go Forward and Go Back.

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On Windows:

Alt+← .. navigate back

Alt+→ .. navigate forward

On Mac:

Ctrl+- .. navigate back

Ctrl+Shift+- .. navigate forward

On Ubuntu Linux:

Ctrl+Alt+- .. navigate back

Ctrl+Shift+- .. navigate forward

Answer 6

The answer for your question:

1. Mac:
   (Alt+←) For backward and (Alt+→) For forward navigation
2. Windows:
   (Ctrl+-) For backward and (Ctrl+Shift+-) For forward navigation
3. Linux:
   (Ctrl+Alt+-) For backward and (Ctrl+Shift+-) For forward navigation

You can find out the current key-bindings following this link

You can even edit the key-binding as per your preference.