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Auto Hide KB

Kevin_Kwong

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Keyboard friendly Auto Hide
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Auto Hide KB VS Code

Visual Studio Marketplace Version Made with reactive-vscode

Auto Hide VSCode sidebar, panel and notifications, with better keyboard-only usage experience.

New Features

🎯 More Trigger Methods

Auto Hide KB can be triggered by the cursor, keyboard, or even commands.

🔄 Mode Switching

Auto/Manual mode is provided.

📊 Status Bar

  • Pin sidebar
  • Display and toggle --AUTO--, --MANUAL--
  • Run hide immediately

🚀 And More...

  1. Cursor chat panel support
  2. Whitelist

[!NOTE]

How do i use manual mode?

In manual mode, we stop detecting all your events.

Instead, you can now bind autoHide.runHide command to your specific use case - custom keybindings in VS Code.

See: Full Example

Configurations

Key Description Type Default
autoHide.enable Whether enable Auto Hide boolean true
autoHide.ui UI hideable settings object {"sidebar":true,"auxiliaryBar":true,"panel":true,"references":false,"notifications":true,"cursor":false}
autoHide.triggerOnOpen Whether trigger when open boolean true
autoHide.triggerKind Use which kind of event to trigger hide array ["mouse","command","keyboard"]
autoHide.mode Auto/Manual mode string "auto"
autoHide.throttleTime Throttle trigger time in ms number 500
autoHide.whitelist Set editor whitelist , support RegExp, default match status is focus array ["git","output",{"match":"debug","status":["visible"]}]
autoHide.statusBar Control statusBar display object See package.json
autoHide.navigateFallback Navigate fallback settings object {"left":"sidebar","right":"auxiliaryBar","down":"panel"}

Commands

Command Title
autoHide.toggleEnable Auto Hide: Toggle enable
autoHide.toggleMode Auto Hide: Toggle manual/auto mode
autoHide.runHide Auto Hide: Run hide immediately
autoHide.togglePinSidebar Auto Hide: Toggle pin sidebar
autoHide.togglePinAuxiliaryBar Auto Hide: Toggle pin auxiliary bar
autoHide.togglePinPanel Auto Hide: Toggle pin panel

Navigate

Navigate Command Description
autoHide.action.navigateLeft workbench.action.navigateLeft with fallback to Sidebar
autoHide.action.navigateRight workbench.action.navigateRight with fallback to Auxiliary Bar
autoHide.action.navigateDown workbench.action.navigateDown with fallback to Panel
autoHide.action.focusActiveEditorGroupWithHide workbench.action.focusActiveEditorGroup with autoHide

See Usage

License

MIT License © 2020-PRESENT Kevin Kwong & Matthew Spencer

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