Professionally I am a heavy eclipse user. I heard that IntelliJ is better by now but I have yet to make the switch. However, the focus of eclipse clearly is Java programming. For my own projects I tend to use python - and while vim is awesome I prefer the support of Microsoft's Visual Code.

Eclipse shortcuts in Visual Code

The Eclipse IDE has its own (huge) set of shortcuts: to move around code, to search, to refactor, to run tests, to run a gradle task, ... . The list is endless. Some time ago we literally printed the standard shortcuts on two sheets of paper and marked the ones we knew - so that we could focus on memorizing the rest.

Compared to all the support eclipse provides when refactoring java, the support of Visual Code seems minimal. Checking the section 'Refactoring' in the documentation, we can:

• Extract Variable
• Extract Method
• Sort Imports

Don't ask me why there is no Inline - but at least there is something.

The refactoring actions can be called from the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P). Additionally one can provide one's own keyboard shortcuts. Because I don't want to memorize some (arbitrary) new set of commands I stick with the ones I know from eclipse.

So, in order to define the settings: Open the command palette, search for Shortcuts and open the JSON-Config.

[
    {
        "key": "shift+alt+l",
        "command": "python.refactorExtractVariable"
    },
    {
        "key": "shift+alt+m",
        "command": "python.refactorExtractMethod"
    },
    {
        "key": "ctrl+shift+o",
        "command": "python.sortImports"
    }
]

Copy and paste the lines above, eh voilá. Now commit these to memory and get used to refactoring in python :)