Suggestion about adding custom shortcut in VSCode

[marcuswang6]

There are many regular commands to use, but no shortcuts like below in VSCode:

Bold = Cmd+B
Italic = Cmd+I
Create Python Code Snippets = Cmd+N
Heading 1 = Cmd+1

Can we just customize these functions by ourselves?

[mcanouil]

Yes, create your own snippet and associate it with any keyboard shortcuts. For more, please take a look at VSCode documentation.
To note, by default, if you select text and press *, then the text is surrounded by *.
A lot of formatting functions/snippets are accessible via the command palette, so check it out first before reinventing the wheel.