Allow for setting enter as a keyboard shortcut through the UI

[PEZ]

Issue Type: Feature Request

The Ask

Today you can set all keyboard shortcuts throught the UI, except those whose last chord part is a sole enter. This includes the shortcut enter. This seems to be because enter submits the shortcut's setting dialog.

My feature request is for VS Code to allow these shortcuts to be configured from the UI.

My Use Case

I'm an extension publisher and my extension has a REPL with a multiline prompt. Some users want to submit the prompt using enter, some users want to create new lines using enter. My extension allows for this to be configured as a vscode keyboard shortcut. But the instructions I have to give to my users for configuring it involves finding the keybindings.json file and disable the default shortcuts and enable whatever shortcuts they want.

I'd want to just instruct them to use the Keyboard Shortcuts UI for configuring this.

I'll Send a PR

If this is deemed something that the VS Code teams want to enable, I am willing to put in work to get it done.

One idea for how this could be allowed is the change the UI such that the user needs to click a submit button in order to set bindings. Then enter would be non-special. I think people are used to such UI:s today from various chat clients.

VS Code version: Code 1.40.2 (f359dd6, 2019-11-25T14:52:45.129Z)
OS version: Darwin x64 19.0.0

[sandy081]

Great, PR would be more welcome. Please think of a design that can disable enter to accept.

[blueworrybear]

Hi, I'm interested in this issue. Can I work on this?

[PEZ]

As far as I am concerned, yes, @blueworrybear . I had hoped to get the time with this, but then I made a workaround in my extension that killed a lot of my incentives. So it will probably not be something I find time to do.

[IceCereal]

I know this is a pretty old issue and apologies for the bump, but I'm writing this just as a reference for anyone in the future who has this problem, is looking for an answer, and happened to stumble across this issue like me.

To use only the "enter" key as a keybinding:

1. Change the command keybinding to something random (to make it appear in your keybindings.json)
2. Open keybindings.json (Ctrl+Shift+P > Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts (JSON))
3. Find the command that you're trying to change the keybinding of
4. Change the value of the "key" field to "enter" ("key" : "enter",)