VS Code keyboard shortcuts suggestion to learn

[gsipos]

Keyboard shortcuts are central part of VS Code, there are a lot of them and I think I use only a fraction of them. It would be awesome if VS Code could suggest what shortcut should I learn, based on how I use the app with mouse. For example if I click between editors a lot, then VS Code could somehow tell me to use ctrl+1 and ctrl+2. This way I could gradually learn shortcuts that would increase my productivity the most.

[ramya-rao-a]

cc @kieferrm

[Tyriar]

I was actually looking at building an extension for this a long time ago, we don't have the right extension points though. We would need an event for when any command is run and be able to determine the source of the command (menu, command palette, keybinding, etc.)

[Tyriar]

😄 #1775 #1431

[jcrben]

prior art: https://github.com/halirutan/IntelliJ-Key-Promoter-X

[bbohen]

I was actually looking at building an extension for this a long time ago, we don't have the right extension points though. We would need an event for when any command is run and be able to determine the source of the command (menu, command palette, keybinding, etc.)

I tried this over the weekend and hit the same limitations. Was thinking about it a bit and I think this could be a nice feature to add to vscode itself (disabled by default perhaps). Could be something to consider if for some reason the extension points themselves aren't desired. Would be happy to work on a PR to help if there is any interest.

[guider]

keep remain

[stansw]

Before extension points are added to listen for commands it might be possible to to use log stream to build a dataset for training such suggestions. Once proven that such suggestions can bring a lot of value it should be easier to prioritize the work in the extension surface.

Has anyone looked into telemetry emitted by VS Code with this scenario in mind?

[RJSonnenberg]

Anyone working on this? I haven't found anything similar to this yet in extensions or anything.

[pastuh]

Looks like no one :X

[lincolnaleixo]

Need more interest to catch their attention

[dahelg]

I am also looking forward to such a feature/extension.