Missing keyboard shortcut features from Sublime Text

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Missing keyboard shortcut features from Sublime Text

waderyan opened this issue 8 years ago · 66 comments

I created an extension to port Sublime keybindings to VS Code keybindings. I made a list of all the key bindings that were missing analogous commands in VS Code.

Here is the list roughly ordered by importance. Please let me know about more I missed in the comments. If an extension exists with the functionality I added it in the far right column.

Windows / Linux	Mac	Description	Issue	Extension
`ctrl`+left mouse click	`cmd`+left mouse click	Add multi cursors	#3130	None
`ctrl`+`;`	None	Go to Word	#14028	None
`ctrl`+`+`	`cmd`+`+` and `cmd`+`=`	Increase Font Size	#14031	FontSize Shortcuts
`ctrl`+`-`	`cmd`+`-`	Decrease Font Size	#14031	FontSize Shortcuts
`ctrl`+`shift`+`m`	`ctrl`+`shift`+`m`	Expand selection to brackets	#14089	Bracket Selection
`ctrl`+`shift`+`j`	`cmd`+`shift`+`j`	Expand selection to indent level	#14090	None
`alt`+`q`	`cmd`+`alt`+`q`	Break / Wrap line	#14093	None
`alt`+`shift`+`1`	`alt`+`cmd`+`1`	Switch to single column view	#14094	None
`ctrl`+`y`	`ctrl`+`y`	Repeat	#14097	None
`ctrl`+`shift`+`a`	`cmd`+`shift`+`a`	Expand selection to tag	#14098	expand-region
`ctrl`+`shift`+`space`	`cmd`+`shift`+`space`	Expand selection to scope	#14099	expand-region
`shift`+`f11`	`ctrl`+`shift`+`cmd`+`f`	Enter distraction free mode	#12940	None
`ctrl`+`space`	`ctrl`+`space`	Select next auto complete suggestion	#14101	None
`alt`+`shift`+`w`	`ctrl`+`shift`+`w`	Wrap HTML tag	#14103	None
`alt`+`.`	`cmd`+`alt`+`.`	Close HTML tag	#14104	Close HTML/XML tag
`ctrl`+`k` `ctrl`+`6`	`cmd`+`k` `cmd`+`6`	Fold level 6	#14106	None
`ctrl`+`k` `ctrl`+`7`	`cmd`+`k` `cmd`+`7`	Fold level 7	#14106	None
`ctrl`+`k` `ctrl`+`8`	`cmd`+`k` `cmd`+`8`	Fold level 8	#14106	None
`ctrl`+`k` `ctrl`+`9`	`cmd`+`k` `cmd`+`9`	Fold level 9	#14106	None
`alt`+`0`	`cmd`+`0`	Select open tab index 9	#14095	None

Additionally, here are other actions that are not bound to a keyboard shortcut:

Action	Issue	Extension
Drag and drop selected text	#1046	None

Customize keybinding support in menus (see this comment #3776 (comment))
Customize keybinding support in viewlets (see this #4557)

Answer 1 · 2016-03-07T17:39:17.000Z

Is super mapped to ctrl or alt? Surely they don't bind win+<num>

Answer 2 · 2016-03-07T17:50:04.000Z

super is win or cmd

Answer 3 · 2016-03-07T17:53:34.000Z

@waderyan just looked, I don't see any super in the default keybindings on Windows. Is the above the OSX version?

Answer 4 · 2016-03-07T17:57:20.000Z

Yes. From the docs it looked like this was the case

Answer 5 · 2016-03-09T18:16:01.000Z

(Hopefully) new VSCode convert here! One of my most used commands in sublime is shift + cmd + l which sublimes calls 'Split into Lines' (under "Selection" menu).

It creates a new cursor for each line of a given selection. Does this functionality exist in VSCode? I cannot see it in the list of missing bindings @waderyan compiled above, but I also cannot seem to find it in VSCode.

Answer 6 · 2016-03-09T18:41:27.000Z

@JamesHenry not sure how I missed that one. Added now. I don't know of an equivalent command in VS Code.

Answer 7 · 2016-03-09T18:57:41.000Z

Great, thanks. Consider this my +1 :)

Answer 8 · 2016-06-10T08:18:08.000Z

@JamesHenry In vscode we can used:

cmd + i and

option + shift + i

But I'm very much like the shortcut key to Sublime Text.

Answer 9 · 2016-06-10T09:00:41.000Z

Ah, awesome thanks @yisibl!

Yeah, I have just made it my first ever shortcut override :D

Answer 10 · 2016-06-10T09:18:39.000Z

By the way, VS Code not support cmd + j

Answer 11 · 2016-10-27T17:02:20.000Z

It would be awesome if we have all these in vscode 👍

Answer 12 · 2016-10-27T17:11:40.000Z

@kabirbaidhya you can install the Sublime Keymap extension that @waderyan built right now. If you find any issues you can file them to the repo https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-sublime-keybindings/issues

Answer 13 · 2016-11-02T22:29:48.000Z

My #1 most used sublime shortcut is:

Ctrl + ⇧ + ↑ Move line/selection up
Ctrl + ⇧ + ↓ Move line/selection down

Any chance of adding these to the extension?

Answer 14 · 2016-11-02T22:30:12.000Z

I wrote an implementation of Join Lines and Transpose (and some other Sublime commands) which are more faithful to how Sublime implements them:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Zarel.sublime-commands

I generally don't think it's a big deal to copy another editor's behavior exactly, but in this case, the main difference is that Sublime's behavior is less buggy. Specifically:

transpose crashes when some selections are empty and others aren't; sublime-commands transposes them as expected
transpose behaves weirdly when there are three or more selections; sublime-commands transposes them like Sublime Text
join-lines crashes when a cursor is on the last line, sublime-commands doesn't
join-lines doesn't join the last line of a multiline selection, sublime-commands does (matching Sublime Text's behavior)

If you agree that these are better, could you update the readme in https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-sublime-keybindings and this issue to refer to those?

Answer 15 · 2016-11-02T22:35:21.000Z

Also: Would you be opposed to pull requests adding these features directly into VS Code itself? These features are presumably broadly useful enough to be built-in to Sublime, and then we wouldn't need to install extensions to get access to them.

Answer 16 · 2016-11-03T13:41:54.000Z

@nnur I have been itching for the same thing. Transpose sort of does it, but not the way we're used to.

Answer 17 · 2016-11-04T10:24:48.000Z

👍 to @Zarel's sublime-commands. The behavior for joining lines and adding cursors to selected lines are closer to Sublime Text's.

Answer 18 · 2016-11-04T16:37:11.000Z

Please also add the crtl + click to add a new cursor.

BTW great work with the extension!

Answer 19 · 2016-11-07T17:00:49.000Z

@claudio4 added!

To all - any thoughts on prioritizing the above table? I think join lines is high, followed by ctrl+click to add new cursor. From my experience, I really miss paste and indent. More feedback is appreciated. We have working through a couple of these on our iteration plan for this month.

Answer 20 · 2016-11-08T18:39:36.000Z

@waderyan for #9415, we already have all support.

Answer 21 · 2016-11-14T10:43:38.000Z

FWIW, the two main Sublime features I would terribly miss are:

The ability to quickly switch between projects (Project > Quick Switch Project)
Magically restoring my unsaved files when switching between projects or closing/reopening windows.

_{(But, of course, it is are more about missing functionality than just missing shortcuts.)}

Answer 22 · 2016-11-14T12:38:57.000Z

Hi, tell me please, i'm binding moving up and down on shortcuts (like alt+j, alt+k), in sublime i can moving up and down with this hotkeys when suggestion menu is open (or another menu). Can i realize it in VS ?

Answer 23 · 2016-11-14T15:57:19.000Z

@gkalpak I recommend checking out one of the project manager extensions for that, I use Git Project Manager personally.

Hot exit is coming in the next version, see #101

Answer 24 · 2016-11-14T21:03:47.000Z

@Omen-X that is not currently supported, but I have added it to my list.

Answer 25 · 2016-11-15T10:03:37.000Z

@Tyriar, awesome to see hot-exit making it into VSCode 👍 👯‍♂️

Git Project Manager is pretty nice actually, but I miss a more flexible "project" abstraction (mainly for multi-directory projects). Fortunately, it is on the roadmap (and I can leave without it for a while 😃).

_{#AboutToSwitch}

Answer 26 · 2016-11-15T20:52:37.000Z

👍, FYI @gkalpak multiple folder workspaces is tracked in #396

Answer 27 · 2016-11-21T18:37:36.000Z

FYI there is a PR out to add functionality here - #15787

Answer 28 · 2016-12-06T19:50:51.000Z

Can a shortcut be added to toggle case along with upper and lowercase, as this makes life easier to have just one shortcut to toggle case.

Which is what IDEA follows

Answer 29 · 2016-12-07T19:45:14.000Z

@thekalinga that is in the PR mentioned above 👍

Answer 30 · 2016-12-07T20:05:38.000Z

Hi,

I see only these two

Upper case #14096
Lower case #14096

What I was asking is to have an action that can toggle. i.e if the shortcut is ctrl+t, this toggles the current selection to uppercase by default, if you press it again, the selected text would be converted to lowercase.

This is how things are handled in IntelliJ

Can u please confirm

Thanks

Answer 31 · 2016-12-07T21:26:32.000Z

@thekalinga thanks for the clarification. Can you open a separate issue for that? This issue is specific to keyboard shortcuts in Sublime Text. Sublime Text has separate commands for upper and lower case.

Answer 32 · 2016-12-08T04:41:40.000Z

Sure. I'll open one for that.

The reason why I added a comment here is because since upper & lower are getting implemented, it would be easy for contributors to make the change in one shot.

Thanks in anycase

Answer 33 · 2016-12-08T18:04:13.000Z

@thekalinga makes sense. Thanks for your feedback!

Answer 34 · 2016-12-16T19:11:54.000Z

Note that we closed on some of these issues for VS Code 1.8 release.

Join lines
Transpose
Upper/Lower case
Paste and format

Answer 35 · 2016-12-16T23:15:13.000Z

Your join lines implementation doesn't work the same way Sublime does when text is selected, and neither does your transpose implementation. :( The join lines difference is minor, but are you open to pull requests changing Transpose?

Answer 36 · 2016-12-16T23:38:00.000Z

@Zarel we are definitely open to pull requests. The reason that you are seeing differences is

Vim, Sublime Text and Atom all have Join Lines, they are not totally the same when dealing with leading/trailing spaces. If you see any other difference, feel free to change it or file an issue.
Sublime Text 3 and 2 are doing Transpose differently. Here we mimic Sublime Text 3.

If you'd like to file pull requests, please describe what kind of behavior in your new implementation and why you think it's better or more reasonable than the original one. Thanks!

Answer 37 · 2016-12-17T00:11:18.000Z

@rebornix There still exists a Sublime Text 3 behavior VS Code doesn't mimic.

Sublime Text 3 will, if some selections aren't empty, transpose the selections, putting the contents of the first selection into the second, the second into the third, etc, and the last into the first.

For instance, if you have foo bar, and you select foo and bar and do a transpose, you will have bar foo.

The use-case is stuff like:

if (key === 'up') goUp();
if (key === 'down') goDown();

I can doubleclick on goUp, alt+doubleclick (or cmd+doubleclick in Sublime) on goDown, and then ctrl+t to get:

if (key === 'up') goDown();
if (key === 'down') goUp();

In general, being able to easily swap two variables or two literals is surprisingly useful. Without this, the swap is pretty annoying to do. Something like, double-click goUp, cmd+c, double-click goDown, left, cmd+v, shift+alt+right, cmd+c, click where goUp used to be (a much smaller click target than before), cmd+v. I'd often retype them rather than deal with that mess.

That's the behavior my plugin implements, and the behavior I'd like to pullreq.

Answer 38 · 2016-12-17T02:14:16.000Z

@Zarel basically I like the idea. I did implement the word transposing at the beginning but since it requires more consideration about multi cursor mode so I didn't rush it in. We do have API for you to detect word boundary so it would be not difficult to add this feature, but like I said, multi cursor is kind of the monster. As you have already have implemented it in your extension, it would be awesome if you can contribute to the core.

Answer 39 · 2017-02-20T07:04:04.000Z

Customize keybinding support in viewlets (see this #4557)

This is added for February via #4557 and #11517

Answer 40 · 2017-03-05T06:29:14.000Z

How about ctrl +shift + d for duplicating the current line?

Answer 41 · 2017-05-01T18:50:51.000Z

On Windows, Sublime Text has a very useful "keybinding" to switch editor tabs with right mouse button+scroll wheel up/down. I wonder how difficult it would be to add support for this?

Seems related to #3130, however there's no mention of pure mouse keybindings.

Answer 42 · 2017-05-11T20:28:15.000Z

I'd like to see this:
Add other column(s) to selection by click & drag: Ctrl + Shift + RightMouseBtn. -> windows hotkey

Answer 43 · 2017-06-09T14:24:22.000Z

ctrl+shift+up/down
https://www.jflh.ca/2016-07-10-move-lines-up-and-down-in-visual-studio-code

Answer 44 · 2017-06-09T14:38:09.000Z

@RamyElkest those actually exist... they're Move Line Up and Move Line Down.

Edit: note that the issue is for "missing" keyboard shortcuts.

Answer 45 · 2017-07-04T20:43:01.000Z

Ctrl-K/Ctrl-Y for yank on macOS.

Ctrl-K cuts to end of line
Ctrl-Y yanks it back

This is ideally separate from the normal cut&paste buffer i.e. Ctrl-K followed by Cmd-V will paste the last normally cut/copied text, not the Ctrl-K buffer which can only be retrieved by Ctrl-Y

Answer 46 · 2017-07-25T02:14:12.000Z

shift key down + righ mouse down + dragging, this is very useful for editing multi-lines at the same time.

Answer 47 · 2017-10-13T15:49:51.000Z

i really like sublime's ⌘+T that shows a Go To File... dialog... you then start typing characters in then dialog and files that contain those characters get listed... like a very fuzzy autocomplete

super useful for heavily-foldered projects (rails, react)

edit: never mind! this shortcut is available in Sublime Text Pack!

Answer 48 · 2017-10-23T13:09:54.000Z

ctrl+shift+d : duplicate selection (not the whole line)
extension sublime-duplicate-text (not working on VSCode 1.17.2)

Answer 49 · 2017-10-23T14:23:25.000Z

The "duplicate selection" exists in vscode. It's called copy line down.

BTW, it copies the entire line, not only the selected text.

Answer 50 · 2017-10-23T14:34:49.000Z

This is exactly what I'm talking about : duplicate selection, not the whole line ;-)

Answer 51 · 2018-01-18T01:26:59.000Z

sublime uses ctrl+shift+; to delete html tags (both open tag and close tag), what's the shortcut in vscode?

Answer 52 · 2018-02-06T18:35:58.000Z

Is there a good way to replicate ST's layouts and their keyboard shortcuts in VSCode, even if it means using another plugin? (screenshot below of the options)

I can sorta use the split editor keyboard shortcut to constant split editors and go from 1 column to many, and I can use another keyboard shortcut to swap orientation, but there doesn't appear to be any way to create a shortcut like ST's cmd+alt+1 which would merge them all into a single column, which I use quite often.

Answer 53 · 2018-03-06T15:05:40.000Z

One of my all time favorite sublime shortcuts which I greatly miss in VS Code...

Select all inside tags / Expand selection outwards
ctrl+, or ctrl+shift+a

Answer 54 · 2018-03-13T13:19:14.000Z

What about to ctrl+up and ctrl+down (arrows) to increment / decrement selected numbers? How to achieve it?

Answer 55 · 2018-03-13T13:25:38.000Z

Just got it: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nmsmith89.incrementor (it's necessary to set the keybindings provided in the page and reload).

Answer 56 · 2018-03-13T13:26:12.000Z

@giovannipds that is an emmet function, and it's already on vscode. No need for additional plugins.

Answer 57 · 2018-03-13T20:06:38.000Z

@elboletaire right, thank you! I must haven't noticed. But the plugin does some additional stuff like swapping true and false etc., which is also cool. Will let it installed anyway. =D

Answer 58 · 2018-05-11T09:11:24.000Z

I'm missing these!

{ "keys": ["super+e"], "command": "slurp_find_string" },
{ "keys": ["super+shift+e"], "command": "slurp_replace_string" },

Answer 59 · 2018-05-11T13:10:35.000Z

Is there a way to quickly switch between Workspaces just like SublimeText does with Projects? That's pretty needed... =(

Update: it kinda exists. The most similar way I've found is using Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + P then using File: Open Recent. If your workspaces are there, you can quickly change it there. File > Open Workspace... behaves similar to projects on SublimeText. Another quick tip is having all *.code-workspace files on the same dir so you can use File > Open Workspace... easily.

Answer 60 · 2018-11-20T19:13:34.000Z

I'm missing these!

{ "keys": ["super+e"], "command": "slurp_find_string" },
{ "keys": ["super+shift+e"], "command": "slurp_replace_string" },

super key, on VSCode is win (I'm using win10).
For instance, I did this code on keybinding.json:

{
        "key": "shift+win+l",
        "command": "editor.action.insertSnippet",
        "when": "editorTextFocus",
        "args": {
            "langId": "javascript",
            "name": "Print to console"
        }
    }

I hope this help someone.

Answer 61 · 2019-02-01T19:28:06.000Z

I would like to add "cut from current position to the end of the line". The ctrl + k from Emacs or bash is very handy and I miss a lot this feature.

Answer 62 · 2019-02-01T21:03:11.000Z

You mean Cmd-Shift-Right Del?

Answer 63 · 2019-02-01T21:11:28.000Z

You mean Cmd-Shift-Right Del?

I mean the possibility to assign that action to a simple shortcut like ctrl + k

Answer 64 · 2019-02-01T21:53:44.000Z

See #25075

Answer 65 · 2019-02-17T13:25:19.000Z

*FIXED
in case anyone else needs to make this adjustment. It's SUPER simple.

File-Scroll down to Editor:Multi Cursor Modifier-select ctrlCmd BOOM..you're done.

multi cursor select is NOT working. Before I wiped the drives and installed OS in both my machines, the Sublime extension, the ONE thing I want and use the most is no longer working. A month ago, it worked. Now, not on either. I went over the posts above. I am obviously missing something. I'm running Mint 19 Tessa on both machines.

Any thoughts here? I LOVE VSC but without the multi cursor I'm back to Sublime. It's just not the same :(

Answer 66 · 2019-05-01T22:31:22.000Z

Closing this aggregate issue as it is out of date

If you have any commands that you would find useful and that are still not supported by VS Code (or added by an existing marketplace extension) please open a new issue