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Unbind all default shortcuts #15277
Description
Description of the new feature/enhancement
Provides settings for unbinding all default shortcuts at once
Windows terminal is good software,
but it has too many keyboard shortcuts by default,
when using an editor like VIM, there are a lot of shortcut key conflicts,
want to give the user custom keyboard options, so there will not be a lot of inexplicable keyboard shortcuts conflict.
Proposed technical implementation details (optional)
In setting. JSON file, provide a set of all the default keyboard shortcuts can be disabled at one time,
so that users can easily customize the keyboard shortcuts, the need to manually configure their own keyboard shortcuts,
avoid confusing keyboard shortcuts
Activity
zadjii-msft commentedon May 3, 2023
I think our plan has been to add support for "keymaps". This would follow the work for #6899. Then,
keymapswould contain objects which bind keys to various actions. The user could then just specifykeymap: "foo"to replace all theirkeybindingswith the ones infoo, no layering involved. Adding keys to actions directly would just update the "default" keymap, which is used when nokeymapis specified. Unbinding everything would be something like"keymap": nullI think for tracking purposes, it's best to just merge this with that thread. Thanks!
/dup #2205
microsoft-github-policy-service commentedon May 3, 2023
Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!
KMPrg commentedon May 9, 2023
Mike Griese (@zadjii-msft) @microsoft-github-policy-service
Thank you very much for your answers. I carefully read the issue you provided and #3483 .
I think I may have misunderstood, the main problem does not seem to be the keybindings, but something more complex.
For example, the behavior of ctrl+., even if I use unbund or null to unbind in .json, it will still play the role of moving the cursor to the next line in vim or Emacs. I am sure I have not set this shortcut key, and If you don't use vim or Emacs in the Windows terminal, you don't have these weird default keybindings.
These shortcut keys that cannot be unbound cause shortcut key conflicts when using vim and emacs editors. And there doesn't seem to be any viable solution.
hvesalai commentedon Nov 16, 2023
Having the same problem. Just installed Ubuntu-22 and I use emacs.
I would need to have a way to remove all WIndows Terminal bindings so that emacs would receive the keycodes. I don't need much from Windows Terminal, so I'm happy not having any bindings for it. For me it is important that all keycodes go through.