Using macOS keybindings on Windows

[LoganDark]

I use an IntelliJ keymap called "macOS For All" that makes the Windows keybindings like the macOS ones, because the macOS ones are better.

I can't find any option to do that in this extension. Could one be added?

[svenjacobs]

Hello, first of all thank you very much for these awesome keybindings 🙏🏼

I just came here to ask the same 😃 For the past decade I worked with JetBrains IDEs on macOS and internalized the macOS keybindings. Now I also work with JetBrains IDEs and VS Code on Linux. For JetBrains I use macOS For All. For VS Code I use this extension.

However, the JetBrains keybindings are not identical between macOS and Linux/Windows. While most of them just map Cmd to Ctrl, some a different. For example "Quick documentation lookup" is Cmd+J on macOS but Ctrl+Q on Linux/Windows, "Generate Code" is Cmd+N vs Alt+Insert, "Run" is Ctrl+R vs Shift+F10 etc.

A macOS variant for Linux/Windows would be greatly appreciated 😄

[LoganDark]

It's not even that the macOS ones are the ones I internalized, it's just that the windows ones are utter crap and also impossible to reach (how does someone expect me to press Ctrl+F4 instead of the logical Ctrl+W?? especially when Windows keyboards place Ctrl on the very far left...)

[LoganDark]

I've found it faster to tap Alt-F-C (for "File" -> "Close Editor") than to try to reach Ctrl+F4

[svenjacobs]

FYI, I followed the recommendation of macOS For All and mapped the (useless) Caps Lock key to Cmd on macOS and Ctrl on Linux. Since I often switch between macOS and Linux now, I don't even have to change my finger positions. Of course this only works if the keybindings are "identical", just replacing Cmd with Ctrl where possible.

[LoganDark]

I currently map caps lock to backspace... maybe one day I will make my own custom keyboard that doesn't suffer from the problem of all layouts having incorrect arrow keys

[kasecato]

Related with: #67

[svenjacobs]

@kasecato You added the waiting for vscode feature flag. What feature do you actually require?

[kasecato]

@svenjacobs I've requested it to vscode at microsoft/vscode#27385