Special Characters Cheatsheet

@    Ampersat, at symbol
&     Ampersand
#     Hash
~     Tilde
!      Exclamation mark
?     Question mark
^     Caret
'      Single quote
"     Double quote
(     Left parenthesis, ) Right parenthesis, () Parenthese
{     Left curly bracket, } Right curly bracket, {} Curly brackets
[     Left bracket, ] Right bracket, [] Brackets
:     Colon
;     Semicolon
<    Less than
>    Greater than
=    Equals
|     Pipe
/     Slash
**     Backslash
-     Dash, minus
_     Underscore
*     Asterisk
$     Dollar sign
%**    Percent sign

Coding Shortcuts

To further speed up your development speed, there are some common shortcuts you can use with text editors like Visual Studio Code:

General Shortcuts

Name	Windows	Mac
Save Document	ctrl + s	cmd + s
Copy	ctrl + c	cmd + c
Paste	ctrl + v	cmd + v
Cut	ctrl + x	cmd + x
Select all text	ctrl + a	cmd + a
Make selected text bold	ctrl + b	cmd + b
Make selected text italic	ctrl + i	cmd + i
Make selected text underlined	ctrl + u	cmd + u

Text Editing

Name	Windows	Mac
Move cursor to start of line	home	cmd + left
Move cursor to end of line	end	cmd + right
Move cursor to left of current word	ctrl + left	option + left
Move cursor to right of current word	ctrl + right	option + right
Move cursor to starting of file	ctrl + up	cmd + up
Move cursor to end of file	ctrl + down	cmd + down