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| ryan | technology | Since I [switched my blog to pelican](https://www.ryancheley.com/2021/07/02/migrating-to-pelican-from- wordpress/) last summer I've been using [VS Code](https://code.visualstudio.com) as my writing app. And it's **really** good for writing, note just code but prose as well. The one problem I've had is there's no keyboard shortcut for links when writing in markdown ... at least not a default / native keyboard shortcut. In other (macOS) writing apps you just select the text and press ⌘+k and boop! There's a markdown link set up for you. But not so much in VS Code. I finally got to the point where that was one thing that may have been keeping me from writing because of how much 'friction' it caused! So, I decided to figure out how to fix that. I did have to do a bit of googling and eventually found [this](https://stackoverflow.com/a/70601782) StackOverflow answer Essentially the answer is 1. Open the Preferences Page: ⌘+Shift+P 2. Select `Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts (JSON)` 3. Update the `keybindings.json` file to include a new key The new key looks like this: { "key": "cmd+k", "command": "editor.action.insertSnippet", "args": { "snippet": "[${TM_SELECTED_TEXT}]($0)" }, "when": "editorHasSelection && editorLangId == markdown " } Honestly, it's _little_ things like this that can make life so much easier and more fun. Now I just need to remember to do this on my work computer 😀 | 2022-04-08 | inserting-a-url-in-markdown-in-vs-code | Since I [switched my blog to pelican](https://www.ryancheley.com/2021/07/02/migrating-to-pelican-from- wordpress/) last summer I've been using [VS Code](https://code.visualstudio.com) as my writing app. And it's **really** good for writing, note just code but prose as well. The one problem I've had is there's no keyboard shortcut for links when writing in markdown ... at least not … | Inserting a URL in Markdown in VS Code | https://www.ryancheley.com/2022/04/08/inserting-a-url-in-markdown-in-vs-code/ |