vscode settings - How can I change keyboard shortcut bindings in Visual Studio Code?

Question

Using Visual Studio Code what is the procedure to:

• Remap a built in command's keyboard shortcut. For example, say, Open File (default is Ctrl+O, it's unlikely that anyone would actually change this, but the same process should probably apply for any built in shortcut).

• Remap an extension command's keyboard shortcut, say the Bookmark extension's toggle-bookmark (default Ctrl+Alt+K)

IN 2015, this involved editing configuration JSON files, but I don't know which one, or how. In 2021 there's a new UI, how do I find it?

Answer 1

Click File -> Preferences -> Keyboard shortcuts. Use the tab that opens up to edit and find available key bindings and assign them.

Historical Note: In very early versions of visual studio code, you would Click File -> Preferences -> Keyboard shortcuts and you would get JSON like this keybindings.json:

// Place your key bindings in this file to overwrite the defaults
[
    { "key": "ctrl+o",                "command": "workbench.action.files.openFile" },
    
    { "key": "ctrl+alt+k",            "command": "bookmarks.toggle",
                                     "when": "editorTextFocus" }

]

But now in 2021 versions, there is a proper GUI, which is great because the json editing method was error prone and hard to discover.

The json editor feature has been moved to a new icon: