Questions tagged [vscode-keybinding]
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How can I trigger the hover info widget in VS Code using commands or a keyboard shortcut?
How to trigger a popup with documentation for identifier under the cursor?
Normally it appears when hovering the identifier using the mouse pointer:
I would like to achieve this effect using a command or keyboard shortcut.
The only related commands…

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Where can I find the list of shortcuts for Jupyter Notebook in VSCode?
I am using the latest v1.41.1 VSCode version and launching a jupyter notebook within it.
I cannot seem to find the standard jupyter notebook keyboard shortcut menu to customize, e.g., the hotkey for cutting or creating a cell.
I have looked under…

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Why does "Ctrl + R", which is the key bound to "Reload Window" in vscode, doesn't Reload Window?
I'm a new user of vscode.
I ran into a problem that I was told would be resolved by "Reload Window". So I first went through the "Command Palette" to find it, and it did fix my problem. However, I noticed that it says it is bound to "Ctrl + R". …

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vs code consistent keybindings for Mac and windows with settings sync
I use a windows computer for work and have painstakingly set up many keybindings for common tasks, as well as many other personalizations I really would like to have transferred to my personal computer, which is a Mac.
I recently found out about and…

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How to trigger "inline suggestion" in VSCode?
There're two built-in commands for showing "inline suggestion":
editor.action.inlineSuggest.showPrevious
editor.action.inlineSuggest.showNext
I've tried both, but nothing happened, in what circumstance could an inline suggestion be triggered?

Wenfang Du
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VS Code shortcut to stage changes in toggled elements of list
I would like to add a shortcut to stage changes in all files "toggled" in the SCM pane of VS Code. The behavior should be the same as if I clicked on the plus icon of a particular file having multiple files toggled (see picture):
I have set the…

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how to reset vscode terminal pane size with keyboard shortcut?
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How can I assign a keybinding to resize the panel to its default height (ie not min/maximized)?
Background
Often I need to resize the terminal to see more output, while still leaving enough of the editor viewable to compare…

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How can I import Visual Studio keybindings into VS Code?
There are several answered questions about importing VS Code keybindings into Visual Studio, but I need to do the opposite.
My VS 2019 keyboard scheme (on Windows) is based on the "Visual C++ 6" mapping with additional customizations and I would…

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Getting a command " not found error whenever I press "." (dot/period) key in VS Code 1.78
I'm not pressing any keys with the period key but whenever I press down . key, I get a "" error on the bottom right corner making VS code impossible to work with.
How can I resolve this, and why might it be happening?
Here's…

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Keyboard shortcut to move cursor to next Jupyter Notebook cell in VS Code
Is it possible to move the cursor from one script cell to another using a keyboard shortcut using Visual Studio Code i.e. navigating between cells during editing?
I only found the possibility to run single cells but not the possibility of moving…

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What's the difference between `cursorWordPartStartLeft` and `cursorWordPartLeft`?
Tried both, seem to be doing the same thing, could anyone point out the difference?

Wenfang Du
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How can I create a VS Code keyboard shortcut to change a camel-case string to sentence-case?
In VScode I need one shortcut which can split one single string (camel-case) into words with space(s).
e.g.
getCheckoutCartHelper
desired output:
Get checkout cart helper
Tried to create shortcut in key-binding but nothing.

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How can I keybind opening a new terminal to the right of my current opened files?
Currently I have the below snippet of code that doesn't really seem to do what I want it to do under my vim normal mode keybindings:
{
"before": ["", "f", "t"],
"commands": [
…

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Difference between "acceptSelectedSuggestion" and "acceptAlternativeSelectedSuggestion" in VSCode keybinding config
I'm configuring keybindings of Visual Studio Code. For accepting suggestions, two keybindings are set by default, but I have no idea why there are acceptAlternativeSelectedSuggestion and acceptSelectedSuggestion as they seem to cause the same…

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How do I bind "Enter" to a command in VS Code?
I went to Code->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts to bind ENTER to the acceptSelectedSuggestionOnEnter command (somehow my VS Code stopped letting me accept input suggestion by pressing Enter...), but I wasn't able to enter ENTER by pressing it when…

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