Keyboard Shortcut For Expand/Collapse

Question

_{Tuesday, February 12, 2019 8:10 PM}

Does anybody know the keyboard shortcut to expand/collapse a region of code? Similar to clicking the small plus sign on the left side of the code. After Googling it, I see many answers that state CTRL+M, CTRL+M, but when I use CTRL+M once it <g class="gr_ gr_250 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace" data-gr-id="250" id="250">delete</g> the line where the cursor is located? I could also assign a custom shortcut, but I do not know the name of the command to expand/collapse.

Thanks.

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_{Tuesday, February 12, 2019 9:07 PM}

>Does anybody know the keyboard shortcut to expand/collapse a region of code? Similar to clicking the small plus sign on the left side of the code. After Googling it, I see many answers that state CTRL+M, CTRL+M

Ctrl+M,Ctrl+M is the default. If you want to see what accelerator you have, look at the menu item: Edit, Outlining, Toggle Outlining
Expansion.

If you want to change it, use: Tools, Options, Environment, Keyboard, and enter ToggleOutliningExpansion into the "Show commands
containing" field.

Dave

_{Wednesday, February 13, 2019 7:49 AM}

Hi friend,

Welcome to MSDN forum.

The default shortcut keys in vs are (collapse) is CTRL + M +CTRL + S and (expand) CTRL + M+CTRL + E, you also can use CTRL+ M +CTRL + M to collapse/expand it, please check this: Default keyboard shortcuts. They are key combination, once you press Ctrl+M and you can check the status as below, waiting for second key to trigger this function. If your behavior is not the same, please go to Tools-Import and Export setting…-Reset all settings to reset setting to the default one, then check it again.

If you want to custom the shortcut, please go to tools>> options>>settings>>environment>>keyboard, the name of commands are Edit.CollapseCurrentRegion and Edit.ExpandCurrentRegion and set you own shortcuts.

Best regards,

Sara

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_{Tuesday, February 19, 2019 5:59 AM}

Hi friend,

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Best regards,

Sara

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_{Wednesday, June 26, 2019 2:17 PM}

Hi Sara,

I just noticed that I do not have email notifications turned on for this account and I forgot that I made this topic. The suggestion that you posted did not work. CTRL+M always deletes a line for me. I searched the the keyboard shortcuts and saw that CTRL+M was assigned to CutLine. I changed the mapping for CutLine, but CTRL+M was still deleting the line. 

I then assigned CollapseCurrentRegion to CTRL+K, CTRL+\ When I tested this shortcut on some code. The shortcut does nothing, so I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

Thanks.