keyboard shortcut for go back to last edited position in Visual Studio Code

Last Edited Shortcut

Cntrl+k,Cntrl+q

Last Cursor Movement

ALt+Arrow left

Also see https://stackoverflow.com/a/71212026/836330 for new navigation commands in vscode v1.65. See that link for navigating to next/previous cursor locations (where the cursor was but maybe no actual edit there).

For last edited locations:

Go Forward in Edit Locations
"workbench.action.navigateForwardInEditLocations"

Go Back in Edit Locations
"workbench.action.navigateBackInEditLocations"

Go Previous in Edit Locations
"workbench.action.navigatePreviousInEditLocations"

Go to Last Edit Location
      // acts like a toggle between current and last edit location
"workbench.action.navigateToLastEditLocation"

Associated context keys have been added to make assigning keybindings more powerful:

• canNavigateBackInNavigationLocations: Whether it is possible to go back in navigation locations
• canNavigateForwardInNavigationLocations: Whether it is possible to go forward in navigation locations
• canNavigateToLastNavigationLocation: Whether it is possible to go to the last navigation location
• canNavigateBackInEditLocations: Whether it is possible to go back in edit locations
• canNavigateForwardInEditLocations: Whether it is possible to go forward in edit locations
• canNavigateToLastEditLocation: Whether it is possible to go to the last edit location

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[EDIT]: v1.28.0 just added a command to go back to the last edited position, see release notes: navigate back to last edited position.

Navigate to last edit location

A new command Go to Last Edit Location (workbench.action.navigateToLastEditLocation) was added to quickly navigate to the last location in a file that was edited. The default keybinding is

Ctrl+K Cntrl+Q

For Windows use Alt+RightArrow and Alt+LeftArrow.