Vim: Cannot remap move pane keybinds

Is this a BUG REPORT or FEATURE REQUEST? (choose one):

I’m not sure. bug or just question.

What happened:

I remapped move pane to right/left/up/down keybinds to ctrl-l/h/k/j only in a Normal mode like below.

  {
    "key": "ctrl+h",
    "command": "extension.vim_navigateLeft",
    "when": "vim.active && editorTextFocus && vim.mode == 'Normal' "
  },
  {
    "key": "ctrl+l",
    "command": "extension.vim_navigateRight",
    "when": "vim.active && editorTextFocus && vim.mode == 'Normal'"
  },

But after upgraded to latest version of this extension, I got error messages like command 'extension.vim_navigateLeft' not found.

I was found some commands changes in #2600, But I don’t know how to reconfig the keybinds.

What did you expect to happen:

I’d like to use ctrl-l/h/k/j keybinds in Normal mode for move pane.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):

Environment:

Extension (VsCodeVim) version: v0.11.6
VSCode version: Version 1.23.0 (1.23.0)
OS version: macOS 10.13.4

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Comments: 15 (5 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Quick update since I ran into this again, but otherModesKeyBindingsNonRecursive is now normalModesKeyBindingsNonRecursive as per #2726.

So for completeness, in your USER SETTINGS you’ll need:

  "vim.normalModeKeyBindingsNonRecursive": [
    {
      "before": ["<C-h>"],
      "after": ["<C-w>", "h"]
    },
    {
      "before": ["<C-l>"],
      "after": ["<C-w>", "l"]
    }
  ],

eysi09 on Jun 25, 2018

@kdnk You’re right, it does work. Thanks!

For anyone else who stumbles into this, you must remove the corresponding keybindings from keybindings.json and add the snippet above.

eysi09 on May 14, 2018

@eysi09 Did you ever figure this out? Your keybinding suggestion doesn’t work for me. Perhaps you’ve moved on… thanks.

Edit: This worked for me! https://stackoverflow.com/a/50593160/243157

littke on Dec 17, 2019

@kdnk thank you for you solution. Just one thing is not working as before: I can’t move from the file explorer to a panel on it’s right.

“extension.vim_navigateRight” allowed to move from the file explorer to the code on its right,

        {
            "before": ["<C-l>"],
            "after": ["<C-w>", "l"]
        }

does not work.

CodingJonas on May 14, 2018

@jpoon Thanks for follow up. I’m not used to VSCode extension development yet, especially package.json is unknown territory…

@kdnk Thanks for checking! I was thinking about checking it after getting home, but now I don’t need it 😃

tyru on May 9, 2018

Ugh, you are totally right. johnfn expressed his concerns with doing the remapping the original way (in the package.json) and I agree with him https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/pull/1504#issuecomment-298490543 that isn’t a direction we should go into as we can’t remap those keys.

@kdnk instead of using vscode’s key remapping, you can use vscodevim’s and rebind your <c-h> like this:

    "vim.otherModesKeyBindingsNonRecursive": [
        {
            "before":["<C-h>"],
            "after":[<C-w>', 'j'],
        },
    ]

jpoon on May 9, 2018