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Visual Studio Code – Remap the arrow key in VSCode's problem panel

I want to remap hjkl to the arrow key in VSCode’s problems panel, but I couldn’t figure out the way. I’ve tried mapping list.focusUp and list.focusDown, but it doesn’t seem to work in the problems panel.

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    What you saw (and I see it too) is odd. It seems that list commands should work, see https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/20440 where Problems have adopted the list focus commands…

    In any case, it is always wise to try a more restrictive when clause first.

    This works for me – I assume you have the focus in the Problems view already:

    {
  "key": "k",
  "command": "list.focusUp",
  "when": "workbench.panel.markers.view.active"
  //  "when": "focusedView == 'workbench.panel.markers.view'"  // or this
},

{
  "key": "j",
  "command": "list.focusDown",
  "when": "workbench.panel.markers.view.active"
  //  "when": "focusedView == 'workbench.panel.markers.view'"  // or this
}

    I don’t know what you want the left/right to do in the Problems though.

    I see you have filed a GitHub issue:
    Bind directional hjkl for the Problems panel    .

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    I used the default when clause- listFocus && !inputFocus && !treestickyScrollFocused, which had the issue of the filter getting focus for typing when key had no modifiers. The asker raised an issue ticket at Bind directional hjkl for the Problems panel #211297, and the maintainers responded with this change, which prevents focusing the filter if soft-dispatching the keyboard event finds that more chords are needed to resolve potential keybindings, or if a matching keybinding is found. I.e. I think the following should work in the April 2024 release of VS Code (1.89):

    {
  "key": "k",
  "command": "list.focusUp",
  "when": "listFocus && !inputFocus && !treestickyScrollFocused",
},

{
  "key": "j",
  "command": "list.focusDown",
  "when": "listFocus && !inputFocus && !treestickyScrollFocused",
}
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