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One of the most important pieces of your development environment is your keyboard shortcuts. If you’re like me, you probably modified some of the defaults to your liking.
Moving your workspace to the cloud means you have to bring your VS Code keyboard shortcuts along with you!
To do this in Coder, all you have to do is add this line to your personalize or install script:
cp -f keybindings.json /home/coder/.local/share/code-server/User/keybindings.json
Note: this assumes you have a file called keybindings.json
at the root of your workspace or dotfiles repo and you’re okay with overwriting the keybindings.json
in your current workspace. (the -f
is for --force
and overwrites the existing file when copying).
For those that want us to walk you through the whole process — start to finish — read on!
If you’re not familiar with dotfiles, it’s a repo where you get your workflow settings for things like your shell (zsh, bash, etc.), git, and other things.
dotfiles
install.sh
at the root, make sure it’s executableinstall.sh
#!/bin/sh
echo "--Running install script"
echo “Hello world!”
Check out the Coder docs to read more about the personalize and install scripts.
The first thing you need to do is save your current keyboard shortcuts from VS Code. To do this, follow these steps inside VS Code:
keybindings.json
Commit this and push it up to the remote so we can use it in the next step.
Now we need to modify our install script so that it uses our new keybindings.json
and puts it in the right place after building our Workspace.
In your install.sh
script, add this line:
cp -f keybindings.json /home/coder/.local/share/code-server/User/keybindings.json
This says, “copy this file keybindings.json to this location and overwrite if the file already exists.”
And here is a breakdown of that command:
* cp
is the copy command
* -f
(also --force
) is the flag to force by overwriting the file if it already exists
* keybindings.json
is the file we’re copying
* /home/coder/.local/share/code-server/User/keybindings.json
is the location where we’re copying to. This is also the location where Code Web (code-server) expects to find any custom keyboard shortcuts.
The last step in this process is testing our changes in our workspace.
You’ll see your keyboard shortcuts that you saved previously!
Woohoo! 🎉
Hope you enjoyed reading this tutorial. If you did, tag @CoderHQ on Twitter and let us know one keyboard shortcut you think more people should use!
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