Missing keyboard shortcut features from Sublime Text #3776

waderyan · 2016-03-07T16:27:00Z

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 Missing keyboard shortcut features from Sublime Text #3776 (comment))
Customize keybinding support in viewlets (see this Make explorer keybindings configurable #4557)

Tyriar · 2016-03-07T17:39:17Z

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

waderyan · 2016-03-07T17:50:04Z

super is win or cmd

Tyriar · 2016-03-07T17:53:34Z

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

waderyan · 2016-03-07T17:57:20Z

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

JamesHenry · 2016-03-09T18:16:01Z

(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.

waderyan · 2016-03-09T18:41:27Z

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

JamesHenry · 2016-03-09T18:57:41Z

Great, thanks. Consider this my +1 :)

yisibl · 2016-06-10T08:18:08Z

@JamesHenry In vscode we can used:

cmd + i and

option + shift + i

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

JamesHenry · 2016-06-10T09:00:41Z

Ah, awesome thanks @yisibl!

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

yisibl · 2016-06-10T09:18:39Z

By the way, VS Code not support cmd + j

kabirbaidhya · 2016-10-27T17:02:20Z

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

Tyriar · 2016-10-27T17:11:40Z

@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

nnur · 2016-11-02T22:29:48Z

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?

Zarel · 2016-11-02T22:30:12Z

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?

Zarel · 2016-11-02T22:35:21Z

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.

kevinSuttle · 2016-11-03T13:41:54Z

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

gkalpak · 2016-11-04T10:24:48Z

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

claudio4 · 2016-11-04T16:37:11Z

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

BTW great work with the extension!

waderyan · 2016-11-07T17:00:49Z

@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.

rebornix · 2016-11-08T18:39:36Z

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

gkalpak · 2016-11-14T10:43:38Z

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.)}

albert-001 · 2017-07-25T02:14:12Z

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

mgiraldo · 2017-10-13T15:49:51Z

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!

cmalard · 2017-10-23T13:09:54Z

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

elboletaire · 2017-10-23T14:23:25Z

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

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

cmalard · 2017-10-23T14:34:49Z

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

djdeo · 2018-01-18T01:26:59Z

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

joncalhoun · 2018-02-06T18:35:58Z

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.

jaegz · 2018-03-06T15:05:40Z

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

giovannipds · 2018-03-13T13:19:14Z

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

giovannipds · 2018-03-13T13:25:38Z

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

elboletaire · 2018-03-13T13:26:12Z

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

giovannipds · 2018-03-13T20:06:38Z

@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

tino · 2018-05-11T09:11:24Z

I'm missing these!

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

giovannipds · 2018-05-11T13:10:35Z

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.

janderson099 · 2018-11-20T19:13:34Z

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.

Victor-Bernabe · 2019-02-01T19:28:06Z

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.

andig · 2019-02-01T21:03:11Z

You mean Cmd-Shift-Right Del?

Victor-Bernabe · 2019-02-01T21:11:28Z

You mean Cmd-Shift-Right Del?

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

andig · 2019-02-01T21:53:44Z

See #25075

ddayhtx · 2019-02-17T13:25:19Z

*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 :(

mjbvz · 2019-05-01T22:31:22Z

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

waderyan added the feature-request Request for new features or functionality label Mar 7, 2016

waderyan changed the title ~~Missing commands from Sublime keybindings~~ Missing commands from Sublime Oct 19, 2016

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Delete word forward/backward #9415

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Missing keyboard shortcut features from Sublime Text #3776

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