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Atom IDE – My Favorite Top 10 Keyboard Shrotcuts

This article represents a list of my favourite keyboard short-cuts for Atom IDE. Please feel free to comment/suggest if you thought that one or more short-cuts could be included. Also, sorry for the typos.

Following is the list of my favourite top 10 keyboard short-cuts which I use very frequently when writing the code using ATOM IDE.

Ctrl + Space: Show available auto-completions. For example, type “ul” and press CTRL + Space bar, and it would print <ul></ul>
Ctrl + /: Comment a selection.
Find operations
- Ctrl + p: Toggle file finder. Opens up a dialog box with a textfield which can be used to find/search a file.
- Ctrl + Shift + F: Find the search word in project
- Ctrl + r: Find and go to a function.
Line operations
- Ctrl + g: Go to line
- Ctrl + Enter: Insert a new line and place a cursor at the beginning of the line.
- Ctrl + shift + d: Duplicate the line
- Ctrl + l: Select line. This is very helpful when you can select multiple lines using Ctrl + l and then do Ctrl + / to comment it all.
File Operations
- Ctrl + n: Open a new file
- Ctrl + w: Close the file

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I have been recently working in the area of Data analytics including Data Science and Machine Learning / Deep Learning. I am also passionate about different technologies including programming languages such as Java/JEE, Javascript, Python, R, Julia, etc, and technologies such as Blockchain, mobile computing, cloud-native technologies, application security, cloud computing platforms, big data, etc. I would love to connect with you on Linkedin. Check out my latest book titled as First Principles Thinking: Building winning products using first principles thinking.