cmd + shift + left/right don't work

[mergesort]

Issue Type: Bug

On macOS the key commands cmd + shift + left and cmd + shift + right will highlight to the beginning and end of line respectively. I use this constantly when programming, and it hasn't worked in VS Code for years now, but admittedly I was lazy enough to not file a bug and instead stopped using VS Code. I'd love to use VS Code though, this IDE is terrific! But this is a dealbreaker for me that I haven't figured how to work around unfortunately.

Thanks so much for the hard work and terrific app!

VS Code version: Code 1.28.2 (7f3ce96, 2018-10-17T00:18:43.347Z)
OS version: Darwin x64 17.7.0

System Info

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Load (avg)	2, 2, 2
Memory (System)	16.00GB (0.06GB free)
Process Argv	-psn_0_2286126
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

Extensions (17)

Extension	Author (truncated)	Version
simple-react-snippets	bur	1.2.2
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path-intellisense	chr	1.4.2
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vscode-eslint	dba	1.7.0
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json-tools	eri	1.0.2
flow-for-vscode	flo	0.8.5
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vscode-yarn	gam	1.6.0
debugger-for-chrome	msj	4.11.0
color-highlight	nau	2.3.0
preview-vscode	sea	1.4.6
vscode-todo-highlight	way	1.0.4
markdown-all-in-one	yzh	1.7.0

[alexdima]

@mergesort Out-of-the-box we ship with those keybindings on the mac. What does searching for "cmd+shift+left" in the keybindings editor show?

e.g.

[mergesort]

Hey @alexandrudima. This is what ⌘+shift+left and ⌘+shift+right look like for me now.

⌘+shift+left

⌘+shift+right

I removed the mapping from ⌘+shift+left, which defaulted to the same thing ⌘+shift+right had, except for start instead of end. It still doesn't behave as expected though unfortunately, in either case.

Let me know if I can provide any more information!

[alexdima]

Can you look at your keybindings.json file and check if you have any rules in there? Can you disable all extensions (they can remap keybindings) and check in the keyboard list again?

[mergesort]

I've disabled all of my extensions, and emptied out my keybindings.json so it only contains [] now, and the same behavior still persists. This is an issue that I've had even on clean installed machines, so I don't believe it's due to any customizations I may have installed.

[rebornix]

@mergesort after disabled all extensions, can you try

• search cursorHomeSelect in the keybindings editor?
• Press the first option button in the the search inputbox (looks like a keyboard and its title is "Record Keys"), and then press "Cmd+Shift+Left" and see what's being inserted into the search box?

[mergesort]

It seems like the damndest thing, I cannot type ⌘+shift+left into the box either.

I can type ⌘+shift+up/down though.

And this only in VS Code, no other apps.

[mergesort]

I suspect this issue is somewhat dead but I do have a slight update. I still can't get it to work, but I noticed that for the first few seconds of the app, the keyboard command does work. This makes me suspect that it's something that is lazily loaded as the app initializes, but I don't really have any more information I can provide to help unfortunately.

Any updates or anything I can do to help?

[alexdima]

@mergesort I think you might have something installed on your machine that is causing this weirdness (outside of VSCode). Can you please try with a guest account perhaps (which would not start up all the software you typically run)... ?

[vscodebot]

This issue has been closed automatically because it needs more information and has not had recent activity. See also our issue reporting guidelines.

Happy Coding!

[alexdima]

Fix courtesy of @brucejo75 in #80182

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Fix:

Hunted around...
Discovered that Mission Control was using all of these keys. So I remapped them all to other Function keys (that I do not use in editing).

There are 2 places to check:

1. System preferences->Mission Control
2. System preferences->Keyboard->Shortcuts->Mission Control

After remapping, it still did not work!

Close and restart Visual Studio Code and then it works!