Boost Your Workflow: VS Code & Terminal Essentials

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Reopen a Pane

Sometimes you accidentally close the explorer (left pane) or the terminal (bottom pane). You can reopen them with these keyboard shortcuts:

• Left pane (Explorer): Ctrl + B (Windows) / ⌘ + B (Mac)
• Bottom pane (Terminal): Ctrl + J (Windows) / ⌘ + J (Mac)

Alternatively, click the hamburger menu (top‑left) → View → Explorer or Terminal to reopen the pane.

Clear Terminal

• Mac: ⌘ + K
• Windows: Ctrl + K

Interrupt Program

• Ctrl + C

Command Palette

• Mac: ⌘ + Shift + P
• Windows: Ctrl + Shift + P

Quick Open File

• Mac: ⌘ + P
• Windows: Ctrl + P

Type part of the file name to fuzzy‑search.
Example: typing phco quickly narrows the list to photos_controller.rb.

Rails Console

What does the rails console command do?

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Why would you use the reload! command in Rails console?

To reload the application’s code without exiting the console.