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Gary Allen
Gary Allen

Reputation: 1370

Enabled VS Code Keyboard shortcut only when Extension is Enabled

I would like to make the "when" clause of a specific keyboard shortcut be only when a specific extension (the Python extension in my case) is enabled/active i.e. when I am busy working with a python project.

How can I accomplish this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 397

Answers (2)

Sharak
Sharak

Reputation: 990

There is extension context for key bindings but I think it can only be used inside extension. Although in keybindings.json extension key is checked because adding it breaks the shortcut execution, it surely doesn't work like in example from the docs.

Try "when": "extension == 'ms-python.python'"

or "when": "extension == 'ms-python.python' && extensionStatus == 'installed'"

You could probably make simple extension of your own that would check ms-python.python status and provided you with a shortcut.

Best alternative is relying on document language, like rioV8 suggested:

   "when": "editorLangId == 'python'"

Upvotes: 1

rioV8
rioV8

Reputation: 28673

you can add this to the when clause of the key binding

editorLangId == 'python'

Upvotes: 0

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