When I use use PeekDefinition keyboard shortcut a window is opened with a code preview on the left side and list of occurrences on the right side (typical PeekView).
Now the list on right has the focus. How to move it to the code preview without mouse so I could scroll it and edit it with my keyboard.
(I am using vim emulation)
For me, on Windows with VSCode 1.37.1, Shift+Tab moves from the right-hand pane of peek view (list of files) to the left-hand pane (peeked source code).
It doesn't seem to be an ordinary, customizable key binding though. In my keyboard settings, several things are bound to Shift+Tab (depending on context), but none correspond to this behavior. So I don't know where it comes from or if it can be changed.
Also, there seems to be no way to go back to the right-hand pane, other than by closing the peek view entirely with Esc and re-opening it again.
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Is there a way to access the mouse over popup in VSCode via Keyboard and navigate in it?
I often use the mouse over to get the namespace of function or variable ...
So I want to place the cursor on "bar", popup the hover (Show Hover Ctrl+k Ctrl+i), focus it, mark some text (eg. namespace::functioname), copy and close the hover.
namespace foo{
void bar();
}
First problem, the hover doesn't get the focus and I don't know how to focus it. But there is another feature "Show defintion preview hover", which actually gets focused. So far so good. But I still cannot mark or copy text inside the hover via keyboard.
Show hover (not focused):
Show definition preview hover (focused):
But I still cannot mark or copy text inside the hover via keyboard.
That should change with VSCode 1.68 (May 2022):
Lock hovers to more easily mouse over them
Some custom hovers cannot be moused over and others are tricky to mouse over without hiding it because of other things in the way (eg. like a scroll bar).
Holding alt while a hover is active will now "lock" it, giving it a wider border and preventing moving the mouse outside of the hover widget or whatever triggered it from hiding it.
This is primarily an accessibility feature to make hovers play nice with screen magnifiers but it is also useful for copying text from certain hovers.
Note that this feature only applies outside of the editor because editor hovers can always be moused over unless specified otherwise via a setting.
This will be helpful for other views (debug, terminal, ...) where variables with their popup can appear as well.
In the editor, see microsoft/vscode issue 63296
ctrl+K ctrl+I to show the hover and focus it
ctrl+A to select all the hover content
ctrl+C to copy to clipboard
It does indeed work for me (on windows) for the first two steps, however ctrl+C does not copy the text selected with ctrl+A.
It seems like there are two different selections possible in the hover:
ctrl+Aselects everything with a dark blue.
When selecting some text in the hover with the mouse (i.e. press the left mouse button while near/over a char, move mouse, release left mouse button) the selected text is shown in a lighter and brighter blue.
The two selections can coexist.
ctrl+C always copies the text selected with the mouse, or nothing if there's no such selection, no matter whether a ctrl+A selection also has been done.
If there's only a ctrl+A selection, ctrl+C doesn't copy anything.
The two selections can be selected in any order. The order doesn't change the behavior.
Think I found out what you were after.
The shortcut is: Ctrl+K Ctrl+I
See: Trigger advanced hover information with keyboard
please try control + mouse click
it may be help you
Sometimes when closing vscode, or a tab therein, I get a dialogue asking "Do you want to save the changes you made to filename?" However, the unsaved edits are actually from a previous session that was closed without such a query, probably when turning off the computer, so I can't remember if it was meaningful edits, or maybe just an accidental key-press, like a shortcut gone wrong; and doing undo to revisit the last edits doesn't work either.
My question: How can I see the diff between the saved version of a file, and the version in the editor window? I think it would be nicest just to have a "show diff" option in the dialogue, but for now I'm also happy with a command line diff command.
I'm using ubuntu 20.04.
I'm using VSCode version 1.52.1 on MacOS and I had a similar problem that may not be the same problem, but I'm guessing it will work for you as well.
When you're in the Explorer view, in the upper left part of Explorer you have your "Open Editors." If that shows a dot to the left indicating that the buffer has changes in it, you can right click the file name and select "Compare with Saved." This will open another buffer to the side that will show you any unsaved changes.
To get rid of that window (it took me a bit to figure this out I'm sorry to say!), you can click the 'X' to the left of the extra buffer in "Open Editors."
Hope this works for you!
A few bright notes for the keyboard players out there:
The command you are asking about has a default shortcut. Unless you've applied a keyboard map extension, the Ctrl+Kd arpeggio opens the very same diff view between the active and saved versions of the current file. The default shortcut to close an editor tab (be it the diff or a file or anything at all) is Ctrl+W.
The command, like any command in VSCode, is also accessible via the Ctrl+Shift+P command dropdown (on Linux, F1 opens it too). Start typing e.g. compa sav (it saves your keyboard wear and tear to shorten words to a prefix which is unambiguous enough), and the list will shrink dynamically to just a few commands. Yours is File: Compare Active File with Saved. When it's close to the top enough, navigate the list of commands with the down arrow and execute it with Enter. As a bonus, you may click on the little gear to the right of the command currently highlighted in the list and redefine its shortcut, if you use it very often and prefer a chord shortcut to the default arpeggio one. Sorry, there does not seem to be a shortcut in lieu of the gear click. If there is, please let me know!
But if you really, really want to right-click on the filename in the Open Editors view of the Explorer sidebar, you can open that view directly with, you guessed it, a shortcut: Ctrl+Ke. And if you change your mind on a dime right at this moment, or realize that you in fact never had a mouse to do the right-click in the first place, use Shift+F10 to drop down the "right-click menu", properly called the context menu, which you navigate with arrows and execute with Enter (that's kinda a common theme, as you probably noticed). This works mostly anywhere the right-click does.
While in the Open Editors view, to switch to an editor file tab, move the selection to the desired file. Press Space to bring the file into view but stay in the Open Editors view, or Enter to bring the file into view and shift the keyboard focus to it. Pressing Ctrl+Shift+E brings focus back to the editor from any view in the Explorer sidebar. The same shortcut moves focus to the Explorer sidebar from the editor.
Happy ♬ k'boarding ♬!
ctrl+shift+P (or command+shift+P on mac) and fuzzy search for "compare changes with saved files"
Recently in VS Code, somewhere around v1.42 or v1.43, we gained the ability to move around the following windows/panels that used to be stuck in the panel:
Terminal
Output
Debug Console
Problems
They could be split into multiple items in the panel itself (side-by-side or top/bottom, depending on whether the panel was at the bottom or left/right), and even dragged into the side-bar.
This was great, but after moving all of these windows to the side-bar while experimenting, I can't find any way to move them back into the panel. The panel is now empty, except for 3 dots (an ellipsis) in the upper left corner. You can still hide/show the panel, and move it left, bottom, or right, but there is nothing in it, and you can't drag anything to it. Dragging the terminal into the panel shows an icon that looks like it will successfully move (it's not the icon with the circle/cross-out you get other places it won't drop), but when releasing the click-drag, nothing happens.
I had just upgraded to v1.45.0 when this happened. It appears to be a defect, unless I'm missing something. Does anyone have a way to put the terminal or one of these other windows back in the panel, or reset their position? I combed the settings, and tried to find default setting's files (system or user) that might hold info on what is in the panel vs. the sidebar, etc., but couldn't find anything via search or on my PC. Any ideas?
Note: This is NOT about moving the panel between the left/right/bottom positions, or selecting the terminal/output/etc. in the panel itself. That's "old news", this is a recent feature.
Here is a view with the Terminal, Output, Debug Console, and Problems put at the top of the sidebar toolbar, and Terminal focused. The Panel is just to the right of the sidebar window, set to the "left" position, completely blank and useless. The "welcome" window on the far right side:
And here are my current settings:
See this issue https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/96117 (Empty panel behaves weird)
Suggested fix:
Run the command View: Reset View Locations in the command palette.
Please see: https://www.technipages.com/visual-studio-reset-window-layout
Menu Window / Reset Window Layout worked for me in VS 2019
I often double-click to select followed by ctrl+c to copy. I am finding in vscode that ctrl press with the mouse over a word can perform an action. In some cases it selects the whole line, and in others it jumps to the definition of what is underneath. Is there a way to turn this off?
Note that if you move the mouse cursor off the word then it appears the action is not performed.
You could click on Visual Studio code->Preferences->KeyBoard Shortcuts. Keyboard Shortcuts page opens up. You could change any of the keyboard short cuts, by click on edit icon on the left as shown below
You can change the behavior of these features or disable them altogether by going to Tools > Options > Text Editor.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/productivity-structure-visualizer-ctrl-click-to-go-to-definition/
When Eclipse shows a popup for code completion, how do you change the highlighted option using the keyboard home keys? Currently, if the thing I want is third or fourth on the list of suggestions, I have to use the mouse to select it, or use the arrow keys. Is there a way to use the keyboard home keys/ shortcuts with ctrl/alt to do this?
Arrow keys always work for me. Can you be little more specific as to what perspective, editor, etc?
I get a code completion popup when I press Ctrl + 1 in the Java editor. From then on, I can use the arrow keys to navigate.
I'm assuming you want to select from the code completion menu by X for up and Y for down. Go to Preferences > Keys and bind the commands Line Up and Line Down to X and Y, respectively. Make sure that in the When drop-down you select In Windows.
Note that after the settings are applied, X (Y) also makes the cursor go one line up (down) in the source editor. Personally, I use X = Ctrl+P and Y = Ctrl+N which means I can navigate lines and select entries from the code completion menu without lifting my hands off the keyboard.
Unfortunately, these bindings don't work with other pop-up lists in Eclipse, e.g. quick outline (Ctrl+O) or quick access (Ctrl+3). I'd love to find out how to bind these too.