Keybinding to ga to switch to previous buffer is missing.

[leira]

I like the ga keybinding in Kakoune. I use it a lot to switch between 2 files. There is no a in the g menu for Dance. I try to recreate such keybinding in vscode, but workbench.action.previousEditor continuously goes back in the previous list, rather than switching between the 2 recent files. Is it because of some limitation of vscode, so ga is missed in Dance?

[losnappas]

I'm personally using "workbench.action.quickOpenPreviousRecentlyUsedEditorInGroup", for g a, works really nice. Although takes a bit to accommodate for g a <enter> rather than just g a, but it's worth it.

[leira]

@losnappas, thanks for pointing me to the right direction! I just solved this issue with:

  {
    "key": "g a",
    "command": "dance.run",
    "args": {
      "commands": [
        "workbench.action.quickOpenPreviousRecentlyUsedEditorInGroup",
        "list.select",
      ],
    }
  },

This will remove the needed in the end.

[71]

Great tip! I didn't implement g a as I didn't want to maintain a history of open editors (though it kinda already exists internally, but that's another issue), but I didn't know about these commands. This menu item will be included in the next release of Dance (with workbench.action.openPreviousRecentlyUsedEditorInGroup, which doesn't require list.select): c16096c.

[Shatur]

@71 can we also have gn and gp like in helix?
VSCode have workbench.action.nextEditor and workbench.action.previousEditor.

[71]

@Shatur Nice suggestion, thanks! Added in 64bf13e.