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

I am on Mac OSX, so I can't answer for windows users:

I added a custom keymap entry and set it to Ctrl+← + Ctrl+→, while the original default is Ctrl+- and Ctrl+Shift+- (which translates to Ctrl+ß and Ctrl+Shift+ß on my german keyboard).

One can simply modify it in the user keymap settings:

{ "key": "ctrl+left",  "command": "workbench.action.navigateBack" },
{ "key": "ctrl+right", "command": "workbench.action.navigateForward" }

For the accepted answer I actually wonder :) Alt+← / Alt+→ jumps wordwise for me (which is kinda standard in all editors). Did they really do this mapping for the windows version?

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

⌘+U Undo last cursor operation

You can also try ctrl+-

BTW all the shortcuts is here https://code.visualstudio.com/shortcuts/keyboard-shortcuts-macos.pdf This is really useful!

Answer 4

Mac OS (MacBook Pro):

Back: CTRL(control) + - (Hyphen)

Back Forward: CTRL + Shift + - (Hyphen)