Vim Pre Shortcut Keys

A VSCode extension that enhances your coding experience by providing preset shortcut keys to make VSCode feel more like Vim/Neovim.

Features

• Preconfigured Vim-style keybindings
• Enhanced navigation shortcuts
• Integration with popular VSCode extensions
• Customized leader key settings
• Intuitive window management commands

Keybindings

Window Navigation

• Ctrl + h - Navigate to the left window (Normal mode)
• Ctrl + l - Navigate to the right window (Normal mode)
• Ctrl + k - Navigate to the window above (Normal mode)
• Ctrl + j - Navigate to the window below (Normal mode)
• Ctrl + n - Toggle sidebar visibility
• | - Split editor vertically (Normal mode)
• \ - Split editor horizontally (Normal mode)
• Ctrl + c - Close active editor (except in Insert mode)

File Explorer

• Ctrl + n - Focus file explorer
• a - Create new file
• Shift + a - Create new folder
• o - Open file/folder but not focus
• r - Rename file/folder
• y - Copy file/folder
• p - Paste file/folder
• d - Delete file/folder
• s - Open to side
• x - Cut file/folder
• Shift + s - Split editor down
• Enter - Open file or toggle folder

Editor Navigation and Actions

• Shift + j - Move lines down (Visual Line mode)
• Shift + k - Move lines up (Visual Line mode)
• Shift + k - Show hover (Normal mode)
• Ctrl + i - Trigger suggestions (Insert mode)
• Ctrl + p - Show parameter hints (Insert mode)

Quick Input/Suggestion Navigation

• Ctrl + j - Navigate to next item in:
  • File picker
  • Code actions
  • Suggestions
  • Quick input
  • Search
• Ctrl + k - Navigate to previous item in:
  • File picker
  • Code actions
  • Suggestions
  • Quick input
  • Search

Hover Navigation

• Ctrl + u - Page up in hover
• Ctrl + d - Page down in hover
• k - Scroll up in hover
• j - Scroll down in hover
• l - Scroll right in hover
• h - Scroll left in hover

Code Actions

• f - EasyMotion
• H - Move to beginning of line
• L - Move to end of line
• g + d - Definition
• g + p + d - Peek Definition
• g + I - Implementation
• g + p + I - Peek Implementation
• g + D - Declaration
• g + r - References
• g + R - Find References
• g + t - Type Definition
• g + p + t - Peek Type Definition
• g + L - View problems
• [ + d - Previous diagnostic
• ] + d - Next diagnostic
• leader + a - Code quickfix actions
• leader + f + w - Find in files
• leader + f + r - Replace in files
• leader + f + k - Open keybindings
• leader + c - Close active editor
• leader + b + l - Close left editors
• leader + b + r - Close right editors
• leader + b + c - Close other editors
• leader + b + C - Close all editors
• leader + r + e - Rename element
• leader + r + f - Rename file
• leader + w - Save file
• leader + W - Save all files
• leader + q - Quit file
• leader + s + c - No highlight
• leader + l - Next Editor
• leader + h - Previous Editor

Normal Mode Special Keys

• : - Show commands
• ; - Quick open
• jk - Exit Insert mode (when typed quickly)

Vim Configuration

• Leader key set to <space>
• Enabled features:
  • Show mode name
  • Incremental search
  • EasyMotion
  • Replace with register
  • Smart relative line
  • Surround
  • System clipboard integration
  • Highlighted yank (white text color)
  • Case-insensitive search with smart case

Requirements

This extension depends on the following VSCode extensions:

• Vim (vscodevim.vim)

Installation

1. Install VSCode
2. Install this extension from the VSCode Marketplace
3. Required extensions will be automatically installed as dependencies

License

MIT

Author

zykowal - GitHub

Acknowledgments

Work with other plugins to get more powerful 🚀

• Toggle Boolean

{
  "before": ["leader", "i"],
  "commands": ["extension.toggleBool"]
}

• Bookmarks

{
  "before": [ "leader", "m", "a" ],
  "commands": [ "bookmarks.toggle" ]
},
{
  "before": [ "leader", "m", "l" ],
  "commands": [ "bookmarks.list" ]
},
{
  "before": [ "leader", "m", "L" ],
  "commands": [ "bookmarks.listFromAllFiles" ]
},
{
  "before": [ "leader", "m", "c" ],
  "commands": [ "bookmarks.clear" ]
},
{
  "before": [ "leader", "m", "C" ],
  "commands": [ "bookmarks.clearFromAllFiles" ]
},
{
  "before": [ "leader", "m", "r" ],
  "commands": [ "bookmarks.refresh" ]
},
{
  "before": [ "[", "m" ],
  "commands": [ "bookmarks.jumpToPrevious" ]
},
{
  "before": [ "]", "m" ],
  "commands": [ "bookmarks.jumpToNext" ]
}

Contributing

Feel free to submit issues and enhancement requests on the GitHub repository.

Note: This extension is designed to enhance your Vim experience in VSCode while maintaining compatibility with VSCode's native features.

TIP: If you don't like some shortcut keys, you can open keybindings.json or use leader + f + k to modify them. Enjoy it!😃