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VSCode switching between split panes
May 26, 2021
I am becoming a huge fan of using only on the keyboard for my coding workflow. This is no innovation. It's been done for decades. Nonetheless, take this as my small contribution into a mouse-less world. This small snippet will add some ease on your day to day tasks and if you are a vim/tmux guy it will feel completely natural to you.
What does it do?
When you split the vscode window into two or more panes, it will let do focus/move to the next pane. It uses hjkl as you can see in the snippet below, but you can change that to ijkl if you are not used to vim shortcuts.
How to install
To add this snippet press F1 or ctrl + shift + p and search for Preferences: Open keyboard shortcuts (JSON). If you haven't added any snippets yet, paste the snippet as it is, or else copy and paste only the elements (without the opening and ending brackets []). You're set!
[
{
"key": "ctrl+h",
"command": "workbench.action.navigateLeft"
},
{
"key": "ctrl+l",
"command": "workbench.action.navigateRight"
},
{
"key": "ctrl+k",
"command": "workbench.action.navigateUp"
},
{
"key": "ctrl+j",
"command": "workbench.action.navigateDown"
}
]
Happy hacking :)
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