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Visual Studio Code – How to close file explorer when opening a file?

I want to customize my vscode for the keyboard only experience (sort-of).
Right now, if I open my file explorer and select via the arrow keys the needed file and press enter – it opens that file, focuses the editor (explorer gets unfocused) – but it does not close the file explorer.

So I need to press my combination to focus the explorer back, and then press that again – to close the explorer and focus back the editor.

My question is – how to close the explorer when I open a selected file?

I tried to find the command that is responsible for opening a new file, or an event, but did not find any solution…

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  1. 0

    You can achieve this functionality by editing your configuration by following these steps:

    1. Open your Keyboard Shortcuts
    2. Click on the {} icon at the top right to open keybindings.json.
    3. Add the following code:
    {
    "key": "enter",
    "command": "workbench.action.quickOpenNavigateNextInFilePicker",
    "when": "explorerViewletFocus && !inputFocus"
},
{
    "key": "enter",
    "command": "workbench.action.closeSidebar",
    "when": "explorerViewletFocus && !inputFocus"
}

    Then save the file and try it.
    Explanation:
    This setup allows you to close the Explorer when you press Enter after selecting a file. The quickOpenNavigateNextInFilePicker command ensures that the file opens, and closeSidebar will close the Explorer.

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  2. 0

    You can use the runCommands command to run multiple commands.

    In this case, there are two commands you want to happen when you press enter:

    • open the selected file, list.select
    • close the sidebar, workbench.action.closeSidebar.

    To run both commands on enter, use the following keyboard shortcut:

        {
        "key": "enter",
        "command": "runCommands",
        "when": "explorerViewletFocus && filesExplorerFocus && !inputFocus",
        "args": {
            "commands": [
                "list.select",
                "workbench.action.closeSidebar"
            ]
        }
    },
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