How to toggle between vim-emulation and no-vim-emulation when the vscodevim extension is installed?

Question

I haven't found a way to quickly do this without having to entirely disable the extension in the "Extensions" panel. In IntelliJ IDEA, one can easily toggle on/off the emulation with a configurable keyboard shortcut. I guess it should also be possible in VSCode.

Answer 1

VSCode has the same command system as atom. These commands can be started through the "command palette" and also bound to a key-combo.

The corresponding command is toggleVim. You can bind this command to a key using the gear-icon > keyboard combos (sry, i don't know how to switch the language for an exact description :) ) > enter "toggleVim" to the searchbar. Then you can assign a combo to it.

Effectively the extension will be disabled or enabled quickly.

Answer 2

This answer is an extension to the previous answer.

You can use a keyboard shorcut for toggleVim command with the help of keybindings in VS code.

For example, here I want to use Ctrl+Alt+V to toggle Vim mode on/off. To do this I add the following to keybindings.json and save the file.

    {
        "key": "ctrl+alt+v",
        "command": "toggleVim"
    }

You can open keybindings.json from command palette Ctrl+Shift+P, >Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts (JSON).

Please note, you have to be careful to choose only from unused keybindings in Vim and VS code. Alt key combinations are unused in Vim.

Answer 3

I don't know if this is a new feature within VS Code's user interface (UI), but with VS Code v1.78.2 you can use the UI to assign a user-defined keyboard shortcut to the command toggleVim. Here's how:

1. File menu > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts [Ctrl+K][Ctrl+S]

2. Search for toggleVim

3. With the mouse, double-click on the line Vim: Toggle Vim Mode

4. When prompted, enter the desired keyboard shortcut—e.g., ctrl+alt+v— and then press ENTER to save this change.

At the bottom of the VS Code window, in the status bar, you'll see either -- VIM: DISABLED -- or -- NORMAL -- (i.e., Vim enabled) after pressing the chosen keyboard shortcut for the toggleVim command.