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

Search Commands

Command	Status	Desc
C-s	OK	Search forward
C-r	OK	Search backward
C-M-n	OK	Add selection to next find match

Edit commands

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

Other Commands

Command	Status	Desc
C-g	OK	Cancel
C-space	OK	Set mark
C-\	-	IME control
C-quote	OK	IntelliSense Suggestion
C-doublequote	△	IntelliSense Parameter Hint
M-x	OK	Open command palette
M-/(dabbrev)	-	Auto-completion
M-num command	-	Repeat command num times
C-M-SPC	OK	Toggle SideBar visibility

File Commands

Command	Status	Desc
C-x C-s	OK	Save
C-x C-w	OK	Save as
C-x C-n	OK	Open new window
C-x C-b	-	Create new file and open

Tab / Buffer Manipulation Commands

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