microsoft / microsoft/vscode-sublime-keybindings
Word navigation keybindings conflict with the new "Smart Selection" feature
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Description
Note: This comes from the outcome of a bug report I opened in the main VSCode repo.
Looking through the keybindinds added by this extension, there are two that conflict with the recently added "Smart Selection" feature:
Alt + Shift + LeftArrowconflicts witheditor.action.smartSelect.shrinkAlt + Shift + RightArrowconflicts witheditor.action.smartSelect.expand
With that said, it has been a while since I used ST3, but I don't remember those specific keyboard shortcuts working to select the previous/next words, I always used Ctrl + Shift + Left/Right for that.
In light of this, I propose these custom bindings be removed from this extension.
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Research direction
Locate the extension keybindings for Alt+Shift+LeftArrow and Alt+Shift+RightArrow, then compare them with VS Code's editor.action.smartSelect.shrink and editor.action.smartSelect.expand commands. Remove the conflicting custom bindings and verify that Smart Selection retains those shortcuts without breaking the intended word-navigation behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- vscode
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
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- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
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