How to use VS Code keymap in Notepad++?

Ooker

My main use of Notepad++ is to quickly edit configs and do regex. For serious coding I use VS Code. As I have acquired the VS Code keymap, is there a way to use it within Notepad++?

The article FAQ: List of Notepad++ key combinations, available for shortcuts doesn’t seem to provide anything.

I want to install it at once, not manually edit individually command.

PeterJones

@Ooker ,

You would have to figure out the mapping between every VSCode command, and its Notepad++ equivalent, and then figure out how to translate the VSCode keymap syntax into Notepad++ shortcuts.xml syntax, using that mapping table. It would be a huge effort.

As far as I know, no one has ever posted in this Community forum that they have such a mapping already, so you’d likely have to do this yourself.

(For some reason, I doubt that you’ll be willing to…)

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

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The article FAQ: List of Notepad++ key combinations, available for shortcuts doesn’t seem to provide anything.

If you had said “it doesn’t answer my question”, that would have been at least accurate. As it stands, that phrasing claims that there is no information in that FAQ, when in reality, there is lots of information in that FAQ, which has proven useful to many people – it’s just not the information you were looking for. But since the FAQ specifically says it’s about the key combinations available to shortcuts, I think it accomplishes exactly what it claims.

That FAQ doesn’t have anything specific on the shortcuts.xml file format, because that format is already documented in the User Manual’s Config File Details, and our FAQs aren’t going to replicate the entire User Manual, as they serve two different purposes.