rumataestor/vscode-emacs-friendly

Visual Studio Code plugin emulating Emacs functionality

vscode-emacs-friendly

This plugin provides emacs keybindings and workflow for Visual Studio Code and is a fork of the great vscode extension by hiro-sun.

It merges some of the pull requests in the original and other external helpers that make the extension a little less an exact copy of emacs behavior, and a little more friendly in interacting with the system clipboard and normal vscode interactions.

The following are some of the changes and enhancements from the original:

• The clipboard handling is simplified by the removal of the emacs-only kill ring (which was also an unfinished implementation in the original). Copy, Cut, Yank and C-K work with the system clipboard now.
• C+x k to close tab, C+x C-k all tabs
• C+l centers screen on the cursor line
• C+x C+f bound to quick open file
• yank overwrites selection

Move commands

Command	Desc
C-f	Move forward
C-b	Move backward
C-n	Move to the next line
C-p	Move to the previous line
C-a	Move to the beginning of line
C-e	Move to the end of line
M-f	Move forward by one word unit
M-b	Move backward by one word unit
M->	Move to the end of buffer
M-<	Move to the beginning of buffer
C-v	Scroll down by one screen unit
M-v	Scroll up by one screen unit
M-g g	Jump to line (command palette)
M-g n	Jump to next error
M-g p	Jump to previous error
C-l	Center screen on current line

Search Commands

Command	Desc
C-s	Search forward
C-r	Search backward
A-%	Replace
C-Enter	Replace One Match (In replace dialog)
C-M-n	Add selection to next find match

Edit commands

Command	Desc
C-d	Delete right (DEL)
C-h	Delete left (BACKSPACE)
M-d	Delete word
M-Bksp	Delete word left
C-k	Kill to line end
C-S-Bksp	Kill entire line
C-w	Kill region
M-w	Copy region to kill ring
C-y	Yank
C-j	Enter
C-m	Enter
C-x C-o	Delete blank lines around
C-x h	Select All
C-x u (C-/)	Undo
C-;	Toggle line comment in and out
M-;	Toggle region comment in and out
C-x C-l	Convert to lower case
C-x C-u	Convert to upper case

Other Commands

Command	Desc
C-g	Cancel
C-space	Set mark
C-quote	IntelliSense Suggestion
M-x	Open command palette
C-M-SPC	Toggle SideBar visibility
C-x z

File Commands

Command	Desc
C-x C-s	Save
C-x C-w	Save as
C-x C-n	Open new window

Tab / Buffer Manipulation Commands

Command	Desc
C-x b	Switch to another open buffer
C-x C-f	QuickOpen a file
C-x k	Close current tab (buffer)
C-x C-k	Close all tabs
C-x 1	Close editors in other (split) group.
C-x 2	Split editor
C-x 3	Toggle split layout (vertical to horizontal)
C-x o	Focus other split editor

Conflicts with default key bindings

• ctrl+d: editor.action.addSelectionToNextFindMatch => Use ctrl+alt+n instead;
• ctrl+g: workbench.action.gotoLine => Use alt+g g instead;
• ctrl+b: workbench.action.toggleSidebarVisibility => Use ctrl+alt+space instead;
• ctrl+space: toggleSuggestionDetails, editor.action.triggerSuggest => Use ctrl+' instead;
• ctrl+x: editor.action.clipboardCutAction => Use ctrl+w instead;
• ctrl+v: editor.action.clipboardPasteAction => Use ctrl+y instead;
• ctrl+k: editor.debug.action.showDebugHover, editor.action.trimTrailingWhitespace, editor.action.showHover, editor.action.removeCommentLine, editor.action.addCommentLine, editor.action.openDeclarationToTheSide;
• ctrl+k z: workbench.action.toggleZenMode => Use ctrl+x z instead;
• ctrl+y: redo;
• ctrl+m: editor.action.toggleTabFocusMode;
• ctrl+/: editor.action.commentLine => Use ctrl+; instead;
• ctrl+p & ctrl+e: workbench.action.quickOpen => Use ctrl+x b instead;
• ctrl+p: workbench.action.quickOpenNavigateNext => Use ctrl+n instead.

More information

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