This Visual Studio Code extension provides emacs-like keybindings and operations. This is inspired by the great vscode extension by hiro-sun and its forks such as vscode-emacs-friendly by Sebastian Zaha, vscode-emacs-improved by rkwan94 and vscode-emacs-neon by NotKyon.

Though there were such great extensions, this extension is written from scratch because it was hard to achieve the goal listed below by extending the existent code base.

This extension aims

• to provide emacs-like keybindings
• to be fully compatible with multi cursor
• to support kill-ring integrated with the system clipboard
• to support prefix argument
• to support sexp
• to fix some bugs in the existing extensions such as
  • mark-mode states are shared amoung all editors

This extension makes use of code in the existent extensions listed above and, in addition, VSCode Vim extension. Thanks to all these great works. Mainly, almost all keybinding settings are derived from vscode-emacs-friendly by Sebastian Zaha.

This extension makes use of paredit.js to provide sexp functionalities. Thank you for this great library.

This extension provides mark-mode functionality and you can use emacs-mcx.inMarkMode in when clause of your keybinding settings in order to check whether or not mark-mode is enabled.

This extension has some custom settings named with a prefix emacs-mcx. You can configure those settings.

See also: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/settings#_settings-editor

If set to true, the original emacs's cursor movements are strictly simulated. If set to false, the VSCode's native cursor movements are preserved. For example, if set to true, when you type C-a, the cursor moves to the beginning of the line (Emacs' original behavior). If set to false, on the other hand, the cursor move to the first non-empty character in the line (VSCode's native behavior of Home key).

Configures the maximum number of kill ring entries. The default is 60.

Configurations for debugging.

• ctrl+d: editor.action.addSelectionToNextFindMatch => Use ctrl+alt+n instead;
• ctrl+g: workbench.action.gotoLine => Use alt+g g instead;
• ctrl+b: workbench.action.toggleSidebarVisibility => Use ctrl+alt+space instead;
• ctrl+j: workbench.action.togglePanel => Use ctrl+x j instead;
• ctrl+space: toggleSuggestionDetails, editor.action.triggerSuggest => Use ctrl+' instead;
• ctrl+x: editor.action.clipboardCutAction => Use ctrl+w instead;
• ctrl+v: editor.action.clipboardPasteAction => Use ctrl+y instead;
• ctrl+k: editor.debug.action.showDebugHover, editor.action.trimTrailingWhitespace, editor.action.showHover, editor.action.removeCommentLine, editor.action.addCommentLine, editor.action.openDeclarationToTheSide;
• ctrl+k z: workbench.action.toggleZenMode => Use ctrl+x z instead;
• ctrl+y: redo;
• ctrl+m: editor.action.toggleTabFocusMode;
• ctrl+/: editor.action.commentLine => Use ctrl+; instead;
• ctrl+p & ctrl+e: workbench.action.quickOpen => Use ctrl+x b instead;
• ctrl+p: workbench.action.quickOpenNavigateNext => Use ctrl+n instead.
• ctrl+o: workbench.action.files.openFileFolder;