vscode global keyboard shortcuts overriding in extension

Question

I have a set of keybindings in package.json ,

{
     "command": "md.image",
     "key": "Ctrl+Shift+i"
}, {
    "command": "md.codeblocks",
    "key": "Ctrl+Shift+B"
}

This has a problem with other global keyboard shortcuts in vscode, I want to have this overridden in the extension so these keyboards act as the current keyboard mappings for the language its loaded for.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

In case anyone runs into the same specific example of this that I ran into:

I was trying to use the Ctrl + F command to go forward with the Vim extension in VS Code.

I tried unsuccessfully putting a config with unset! in keybindings.json .

However I found that "vim.useCtrlKeys": true in settings.json allows these sorts of ctrl keys to work in the Vim extension with no other changes necessary.

Answer 2

You can disable existing shortcuts by adding a keybinding entry and prefixing its command with a - . For example, to disable the builtin global shortcut for ctrl+n , add the following entry:

{ "key": "ctrl+n", "command": "-cursorDown", "when": "textInputFocus" }

You can find the default global entries by selecting "Preferences: Open Default Keyboard Shortcuts (JSON)" from the Command Palette.