Press “Ctrl + ]” to increase the indentation.Move your cursor to the beginning of the line in which you want to change the indention.Save your file by choosing it from the File menu in the upper left corner of the window or by pressing “Ctrl + S”.To move the line upwards, press the up arrow.Move your cursor to the beginning of the line that you wish to move.If this happens, just close the clicking the “x” button or pressing Esc.

Note that if you press “Ctrl + F” without first pressing “Ctrl + K” you’ll open up the Find Menu.

Save the changes either by choosing “Save” on the File menu in the upper left corner or by pressing “Ctrl + S”.

On the file with the lines of code that you wish to format, select the lines by highlighting them with your mouse.

more keybindings and additional non standard behavioursĪdd a configuration to settings.json that specify json as the type of document for untitled files: 'files.

additional extensions to download may look overkill only to format something.

it's the same solution that notepad++ implement.

specific format can be used on any selection in any file.

Install specific extension that add language specific commands:ĭefault keybinding Ctrl + Shift + Alt + B

Trick VSCode into thinking default unsaved files are jsonġ Extensions that format as specific code.

Using a specific extension to format particular code (json or xml).

I found two solutions to this specific problem, even if they seems more a workaround than a proper solution: The same functionality can be used with Ctrl + K M or by selecting Change Language Mode from the command palette. In the bottom right corner is available the Select Language Mode functionality that now let you select a formatting option, the default one is Plain Text. So you just need to press Select a language

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Now the new tab shows directly a selection mode that says:

Visual studio code format code