vscode: 'list.select' keybinding not working in file Explorer pane

Issue Type: Bug

When I select a file in the Explorer with the mouse, it opens that file but also ‘selects’ it, highlighting it with a prominent highlight.

Firstly I don’t understand the purpose of this selection. It doesn’t do anything. If I use the keyboard to move the keyboard focus to a different file, the ‘selection’ remains on the file I opened with the mouse, but if I now use a shortcut to perform some action e.g. rename, delete, this action occurs on the file with the keyboard focus not the apparently ‘selected’ file! So what the hell is the selection for? But I’ve already reported that and had that bug report closed as ‘by design’ on the basis that while it doesn’t make any sense at all that’s the way the vscode team want to do it anyway. Fine, whatever.

So this bug is to report a related but distinct issue. Which is that the keybinding for list.select doesn’t work. On my system the keybinding for list.select is Enter which is its default value. If I click a file in the Explorer with the mouse it is opened and also selected. If I then use the keyboard to move the keyboard focus to another file and press Enter the file is opened, but the file selected using the mouse remains the one highlighted as being selected

That’s got to be a bug right?

Here are some screenshots to show you what I’m talking about.

VS Code version: Code 1.49.1 (58bb7b2331731bf72587010e943852e13e6fd3cf, 2020-09-16T23:27:51.792Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.18362

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