Visual Studio's January 2026 update introduces several editor enhancements including fast scrolling with Alt key, middle-click scrolling, HTML-rich copy-paste for colorized code, syntactic line compression to view more code, and a slimmer left margin with inline Quick Actions. Code completions now feature syntax highlighting with customizable colors and opacity. Users can partially accept completions by clicking within suggestions, with segment highlighting showing what will be accepted. The Markdown editor gains streamlined preview controls with split, preview-only, and edit modes, plus zoom controls for Mermaid diagrams and direct preview rendering from Copilot Chat.
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