Bind directional hjkl for the Problems panel

[musjj]

I'm trying to bind a vim-style hjkl mapping in the Problems panel as a substitute for directional arrow keys, but it doesn't seem to be possible right now.

Exposing the directional commands for the Problems panel just like list.focus{Up,Down}, list.{expand,collapse}, etc. would be a really great feature.

[ArturoDent]

See your SO question for a possible answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/78381623/836330

But it seems to me that the list focus commands should work when the list of the Problems view is focused, see #20440.

So this "might" be a bug, but these more specific keybindings do work:

{
  "key": "k",
  "command": "list.focusUp",
  // "when": "workbench.panel.markers.view.active"
  "when": "listFocus && !inputFocus && !treestickyScrollFocused"
},

{
  "key": "j",
  "command": "list.focusDown",
  // "when": "workbench.panel.markers.view.active"
  "when": "listFocus && !inputFocus && !treestickyScrollFocused"
}

[starball5]

Copying my comment from SO:

when I tried, 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.

[musjj]

Thanks for the fix, I'll try it out on the next update.

For now, I'm using the following workaround from the stackoverflow post:

{
  "key": "k",
  "command": "list.focusUp",
  "when": "focusedView == 'workbench.panel.markers.view'"
},
{
  "key": "j",
  "command": "list.focusDown",
  "when": "focusedView == 'workbench.panel.markers.view'"
},
{
  "key": "h",
  "command": "runCommands",
  "args": {
    "commands": [
      "list.collapse",
      "widgetNavigation.focusNext"
    ]
  },
  "when": "focusedView == 'workbench.panel.markers.view'"
},
{
  "key": "l",
  "command": "runCommands",
  "args": {
    "commands": [
      "list.expand",
      "widgetNavigation.focusNext"
    ]
  },
  "when": "focusedView == 'workbench.panel.markers.view'"
}

The widgetNavigation.focusNext seems to be necessary because list.expand somehow focuses the filter box, but only with my custom binding ({Left,Right}Arrow doesn't cause a focus change). Not sure if the commit above fixes this issue.

[VSCodeTriageBot]

This bug has been fixed in the latest release of VS Code Insiders!

@musjj, you can help us out by commenting /verified if things are now working as expected.

If things still don't seem right, please ensure you're on version 3415990 of Insiders (today's or later - you can use Help: About in the command palette to check), and leave a comment letting us know what isn't working as expected.

Happy Coding!

[musjj]

Works perfectly in code insiders, thanks for the fix! (collapse/expand also works without using the hack above).
/verified