This project is a fork of the popular Emacs Keymap by hiro-sun. That project is no longer active and my goal was to add meaningful additions to the project to make this extension behave more like an emacs emulator, instead of just a keymapper.
My improvements on the original project
S-expressions was the first major addition I made. This extensnion allows movement via s-expressions, and killing s-expressions. This is most effective when editing .lisp files or any LISP dialect like Clojure. Experience with other languages may vary.
Proper kill-ring: the support for kill-rings in hiro-sun's was inconsistent with the original emacs spec for the kill-ring. The kill-ring implemented in my extensnion can store the last 60 kills added to the ring. Yank-pop is also fully supported.
CUA Mode: this minor mode allows users to keep their traditional copy paste shortcuts on windows (C-c and C-v). Note that as per the spec for CUA mode, these clipboard actions are only available when a region is highlighted. Note that C-x for cut is not supported. This is because VSCode won't recognise C-x as it is the beginning of a chord (if this is wrong, feel free to make an issue on the github page).
Rectangle mode: though skeleton code exists on hiro-sun's to support rectangle mode, it was not finished. I've built on top of this solution and have implemented rectangle-kill and rectangle-yank.
Commands
Move command
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)
Search Command
Command
Status
Desc
C-s
OK
Search forward
C-r
OK
Search backward
C-M-n
OK
Add selection to next find match
C-l
-
Use ext install keyboard-scroll to activate
Edit command
Command
Status
Desc
C-d
OK
Delete right (DEL)
C-h
OK
Delete left (BACKSPACE)
M-d
OK
Delete word
kill
OK
Kill to line end
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 (undo)
OK
Undo
C-;
△
Toggle line comment in and out
M-;
△
Toggle region comment in and out
Other Command
Command
Status
Desc
abortCommand
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 Command
Command
Status
Desc
C-o
OK
Open a file
C-x b
OK
QuickOpen a file
C-x C-f
OK
Open a working directory
C-x C-s
OK
Save
C-x C-w
OK
Save as
C-x i
-
Insert buffer from file
C-x C-d
-
Open Folder
C-x C-n
-
Open new window
C-x C-b
-
Create new file and open
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 shift+delete instead;
