Give option to change the key used for multi-selection

[be5invis]

• VSCode Version: 1.0.0
• OS Version: Widows 10 (1511) x64

The current key, Alt conflicts with the key used for bring out menu bar.

Ref: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/src/vs/editor/browser/view/viewController.ts#L109

[alexdima]

👍 We need to extract that if/else code into a mouse dispatching rule engine.

[qwesda]

could the mouse commands be customised in the keybindings.json? Like:
{ "key": "cmd+mouse1-click", "command": "editor.action.insertCursorAtMousePosition", "when": "editorTextFocus" }

I'm (as probably many user are) used to the sublime text keybindings and the keyboard commands are customisable, but the mouse commands are not.

[be5invis]

Are there any progress about this? Popping out menu bar is really annoying.

[seedform]

This is super irritating for me since I use the alt + click functionality a lot. For now I've got a workaround in Windows using AutoHotkey that prevents the menu bar from popping up after releasing the Alt key. Just add the following to your AutoHotkey script:

#if WinActive("ahk_exe Code.exe")
    ~Alt up::

Warning: you'll only be able to access the menu bar using the View: Toggle Menu Bar command in the command pane after this.

[alexdima]

Related: #3130

[bpasero]

#8874 is related and fixed for August.

[alexdima]

Done via #27193