Can't remap certain ctrl+<key>

[gen0083]

I want to set ctrl+] to escape.
But this is not work.

    "vim.insertModeKeyBindings": [
        {
        "before":["ctrl+]"],
        "after":["<Esc>"]
        }
    ]

[gen0083]

I use a JIS-Keyboard.
In JIS-keyboards key "[" is "]".
So I want to reassign it in vscode-vim.

I added this in keybinding.json then it works.

{
    "key": "ctrl+]",
    "command": "extension.vim_ctrl+[",
    "when": "editorTextFocus && vim.useCtrlKeys"
}

[jpoon]

As per microsoft/vscode#5280, the keybinding dispatching ignores modifier keys. If we want to be able to remap them, we would need to include all variants of them in the package.json.

[rebornix]

I answered in our slack channel multiple times that the reason that we can't do this is because if we steal ctrl+key from Code, we can never delegate it back to Code, so it's not a good idea to put every ctrl+key to the contribution list if we just want to allow users to do the remapping.

I'll say it's an enhancement or feature request instead of a bug. It's limited to VS Code.

[yqrashawn]

@rebornix But we can still map ctrl+key back to code functions do we? Or keys like Command+Control+K will be still as well?

[jpoon]

Renaming this issue to be a bit more generic.

Our extension doesn't currently bind to those keys (https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/blob/master/package.json#L140), hence they go straight to vscode bypassing vscodevim (ie. we have no knowledge of a ctrl+n key).

[jpoon]

To keep the issue list to a sane number, closing this as we haven't seen a lot of traction. For requests to re-bind to certain ctrl keys, please file an individual request and we'll handle it on a case-by-case basis as we don't want to bind to every single key combination imaginable.