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james
james

Reputation: 65

Shortcut to run code via integrated terminal

Currently Ctrl+Enter runs code from the main directory. I want to change this shortcut to run code from the integrated terminal directly.

My current workflow is:

Is there way to change the shortcut above to use the workflow instead.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 128

Answers (1)

soupless
soupless

Reputation: 113

If you want, you can make a task and assign a keybinding to it.

If you don't have a tasks.json file, go to the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P if that hasn't been remapped), and enter Tasks: Configure Tasks, Configure tasks.json file from template, and Others. You should now have a tasks.json file.

The tasks key is an array, and you can insert an object there. For your case, you can have

{
    "label": "Run python file",
    "type": "shell",
    "command": "py",
    "args": ["${file}"],
    "group": {
        "kind": "build",
        "isDefault": false
    }
}

To have the keybinding, go to Keyboard Shortcuts (Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts [Ctrl + K Ctrl + S if this hasn't been remapped]) and click Open Keyboard Shortcuts (JSON).

There, define your own keybinding. For now, I choose F5F5, and we'll add this object.

{
    "key": "f5 f5",
    "command": "workbench.action.tasks.runTask",
    "when": "editorLangId == python",
    "args": "Run python file"
}

To explain, when we press F5 followed by F5 and we are an editor identified as a Python file, VSCode will run the command workbench.action.tasks.runTask. To choose which task VSCode will run, we'll provide the name of the task through the args key which is Run python file.

Upvotes: 1

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