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Visual Studio Code – How to add custom key shortcut for opening markdown preview in side panel in vs code?

Using Ctrl+K V we can open markdown preview in side panel, but my requirement is different.

I want to add custom keyboard shortcut to open markdown preview for markdown file which is present my hard disc at any specific location.

Suppose I have D:testDatatest.md file. Now if I press any specific key (ex. ctrl+e) in vs code then preview of test.md should get displayed at right side panel in vs code.

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    you can do that by editing Keyboard Shortcuts in vs code

    goto:
    Files > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts

    search for "ctrl+k v"

    you will see command: "Markdown: Open Preview to the Side"

    here you can edit the Keybinding to whatever you like.

    images for reference:

    keyboard shortcuts

    search for correct shortcut

    change the Keybinding

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    You can set up a keybinding to do this with an extension I wrote, Find and Transform. For example, with this keybinding:

    {
  "key": "ctrl+e",          // whatever keybinding you want 
  "command": "findInCurrentFile",
  "args": {
    "run": [
      "$${",
        "const uri = vscode.Uri.file('C:\\Users\\Mark\\folder-operations\\CHANGELOG.md');",
        "vscode.commands.executeCommand('markdown.showPreviewToSide', uri);",
      "}$$",
    ],
    "runWhen": "onceOnNoMatches",
  }
}

    Note that the backslashes need to appear as \\ – that represents each backslash being double-escaped.

    The only requirements are that an editor be focused and that your cursor is not at a "word" so there is no match (the extension is primarily designed to make find/searches easy and powerful so it would otherwise create the find). On an empty line or after punctuation for example.

    open markdown preview demo

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