Being able to navigate the panels is essential and fairly easy to do.

Your friend is the alt button

Key areas to navigate between the following sections:

• Editor (this is the default and where you will spend most of your time)
• Terminal
• Version Control (or git)
• Find
• Run
• Debug
• Project

You can also just hold the alt key, and you will see a letter be highlighted and that is a clue to use that underlined letter with the alt key to access it. This is apparent on the menu.

Using alt+character to access the menu dropdowns is also an alternative to the greatest shortcut too, then you can use the arrow keys to navigate to the action

Another useful shortcut is to close the panel shift+esc, or just repeat the same shortcut that took you to the shortcut.

To get back to the editor when you are on a panel, you can just press esc

A cool tip is to resize the tabs, so you can have the multiple tabs open, but give one tab (normally the editor) more screen space, use ctrl+shft+ <- or ctrl+shft+ -> to resize horizonally and vertically use ctrl+shft+↑ or ctrl+shft+↓