Tag Archives: VS Code

Update on LaTeX Setup

Technical Stuff, Tools, ,

This is a quick follow-up to my recent post on the LaTeX setup for 2020. I wanted to let you know that I have recently switched from Emacs to VS Code with the LaTeX Workshop extension as my primary LaTeX editor. I truly cannot remember what made me look into this direction, but I am happy that I did.

The main reason for switching was that the file management is so much easier with VS Code. My current project has a number of files spread over many sub-directories and the way LaTeX Workshop handles things makes me much more productive. I somehow miss AUCTeX, but overall I will certainly not go back.

Visual Studio Code and Bash on Windows

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A while ago I started using Visual Studio Code and it is a great tool for many things. Primary use-cases for me are Chef recipes and SFDX at the moment, for both of which there are extensions in the VS Code marketplace. Also, I like to use Bash (the one that came with Git for Windows) in the terminal .

But at least on Windows (this seems to be different on Mac OS) some of the standard keyboard shortcuts for Bash are used by VS Code itself. Relevant for me personally were Ctrl-A, Ctrl-E, and Ctrl-K. To make bash usable for me, I had to “undefine” those shortcuts in VS Code, but only for the terminal.

Here are the necessary additions to  keybindings.json :

// Place your key bindings in this file to overwrite the defaults

[
 { "key": "ctrl+a",
   "command": "",
   "when": "terminalFocus" },
 { "key": "ctrl+e",
   "command": "",
   "when": "terminalFocus" },
 { "key": "ctrl+k",
   "command": "",
   "when": "terminalFocus" },
]
Hope that helps!