Is there a VSCode shortcut which tells me what command the next shortcut runs?

Question

Like Ctrl+h k in emacs which when pressed waits for the next shortcut and then tells the user which command that shortcut runs.

Answer 1

You can search the keybindings, which amounts to the same thing, just a different user interface. If you are a Mac user, please understand Ctrl below as meaning Cmd.

Ctrl+K Ctrl+S – shows searchable key bindings

Now you can search/filter by description or keystroke. You have 2 ways to search by keystroke:

1. Press Alt-K or click the icon of the little keyboard at the top right of the Keyboard Shortcut panel, then press the keys that you want to see the key binding for. The keyboard icon toggles keystroke recording mode. The recording mode is sticky; each time you revisit the Keyboard Shortcuts tab you can just press the keys you are interested in to see their bindings. Step by step:

   • When you press the Ctrl key you will see "ctrl" displayed, and the recording mode continues to listen to what you type. Don't do this right now, but FYI, if you toggle keystroke recording mode now, and then remove the quotes around "ctrl", you will see a sorted list of all the key chords bound to Ctrl.
   • Next, when you add the Shift key to the key chord, you then see "ctrl+shift" displayed. Again, don't do this right now, but FYI, if you toggle keystroke recording mode now, and then remove the quotes, you will see a sorted list of all the key chords bound to Ctrl+Shift.
   • Finally, adding the = key to the key chord shows all the commands bound to Ctrl+Shift+=.

2. Type ctrl to see all the keybindings that start with Ctrl. Add a + and then a character to see what keybindings remain for that filter. For example, typing Ctrl+x shows 5 keybindings, the first of which is Cut.