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Henrique Branco
Henrique Branco

Reputation: 1940

Replace "< -" keystroke combination for a custom shortcut in VS Code

I was wondering how could I set a shortcut, for example CRTL+F for the keystrokes <- for a better experience programming with R language. Or even when I type - it prints out on my coding scripts the full <-.

I could set it in RStudio but couldn't find a way to do that in VS code. The shortcut options in VS Code are always linked to IDE commands, didn't help me at all.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 374

Answers (3)

Hong Ooi
Hong Ooi

Reputation: 57686

You can also define a user snippet. For example, put this in your snippets\r.json file:

"assign": {
    "prefix": "=",
    "body": " <- ",
    "description": "left arrow assignment"
}

Now, typing =Tab will insert <-.

Upvotes: 1

rioV8
rioV8

Reputation: 28663

Or use this handy keyboard shortcut example with arguments from the doc pages

  {
    "key": "ctrl+f",
    "command": "type",
    "args": { "text": "<-" },
    "when": "editorTextFocus && editorLangId == r"
  },

Upvotes: 2

Henrique Branco
Henrique Branco

Reputation: 1940

Got it just by adding the below code to keybinding.json file:

// Place your key bindings in this file to override the defaults
[
  {
    "key": "oem_minus oem_minus",
    "command": "type",
    "args": {
      "text": "<-"
    },
    "when": "editorTextFocus"
  }
]

Worked perfectly. When I type -- it prints out <-.

Upvotes: 0

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