Jump between braces in Visual Studio.
Posted by Vadim on July 9, 2008
Have you ever scroll, scroll, scroll to find the beginning of if else statement? In this post I’m not going to tell you that long methods and classes are evil. Instead, I want to share with you how to move fast between open and close braces.
Put your cursor before or after the brace (your choice) and then press Ctrl+]. It works with either curly or round braces. From now on you don’t need to play Where’s Waldo? to find that brace.
I’ve been using this trick since Visual C++ 4.0.
smartyp said
sweet, thanks for the tip :)
scumdogg said
The C# crowd get all the cool shortcuts :( wish I could convince my employer to dump VB
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Sheron said
Nice trick! Thanks for sharing… :-)
karlagius said
Good one! Thanks! :)
Janko said
This will surely halp in refactoring. Thanks!
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Roger Dickey said
Thanks for the handy tip!
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pawel g. said
Good trick, it also works with XML files though ;).
best wishes
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ktmt said
Excellent! Excellent! Have wanted this feature in CodeRush forever. Super handy. Thanks for the post. Wonder why it’s not listed in the JetBrain’s “ReSharper 4.5 Default Keymap” pdf.
Ferad Zyulkyarov said
Thanks for sharing. It saved scrolling :)
Roger said
AGGGH ! 8-D I have a Spanish keyboard and this does not work so, anyone knows how to do this with a Spanish keyboarddd ? Thanks in advance !
Anonymous said
Is there an analogous way to move back to the opening brace? crtl + ] moves to the closing brace, but ctrl+[ does not move to the opening brace…
Anonymous said
Pressing Crtl+] will switch between opening & closing braces.
Rohit said
Thanks! This is very useful!
fmohr said
Very useful. Thanks. :)