To manage your keyboard shortcuts in VSCode, hold down cmd + shift + p to open the command palette and search for keyboard shortcuts then choose the option Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts.
In the interface that appears you can search for any command within VSCode by name. Alternatively, if you click the keyboard icon in the search bar you can search by a key combination.
Editing shortcuts
Once you locate the command/shortcut you wish to edit, double click it and it will prompt you to enter the key combination (aka keybinding) you want to assign to that command.
If the key combination you enter is already being used by another command, it will let you know. When this happens, you will either have to choose a different key combination or change/remove the other command that is already using that key combination.
To remove a keybinding from a command, right click the command and choose Remove keybinding.
Context in which the shortcut will work
For each command, there’s a When clause that specifies the context of when that keybinding would apply. Here’s a list of all the available contexts.... To edit the When clause, right click the command and choose Change When Expression.
keybindings.json
All of your keybinding customizations are stored in a JSON file located at ~/Library/Application\ Support/Code/User/keybindings.json .
To quickly open this file hold down cmd + shift + p to open the command palette and search for keyboard shortcuts then choose the option Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts (JSON).
If you have not yet made any customizations, the JSON object within this file will be empty:
// Place your key bindings in this file to override the defaults
[
]
Once you make customizations, they’ll be added to this file following the format shown in this example:
[
{
"key": "cmd+k",
"command": "md-shortcut.toggleLink",
"when": "editorTextFocus && markdownShortcuts:enabled"
}
]
Each command should include a value for key, command, and optionally when. To find out the specific name for a command you can refer to the keybindings interface described above.
To disable a default command, prefix the command with a negative sign (-). Example:
{
"key": "cmd+=",
"command": "-workbench.action.zoomIn" // Removes the default shortcut of zooming in interface with cmd +
},