How to assign keyboard shortcut for arrow keys(i.e. ctrl + j for left arrow) in visual studio 2022

Question

Recently, I am using VISUAL STUDIO 2022. While coding, I find it irritating to move my finger to the arrow keys to move the cursor. So, in vscode, I made some keybindings for moving the cursor left, right, up, and down.

But! in VISUAL STUDIO 2022 , I don't understand how to do that. I want these keyboard shortcuts in VISUAL STUDIO.

• ctrl + j : move cursor left
• ctrl + k : move cursor down
• ctrl + l : move cursor right
• ctrl + i : move cursor up

I tried to go to the keyboard options in VISUAL STUDIO 2022 but didn't find any options regarding this.

Thanks in advance for any recommendations.

Answer 1

You should be able to do this by configuring keyboard shortcuts for the following commands: Edit.CharRight, Edit.CharLeft, Edit.LineUp, Edit.LineDown.

If you want to be able to extend the selection (e.g. Shift+Ctrl+L multiple times to select multiple characters), there are a separate set of commands with Extend appended to the name (Edit.CharRightExtend, etc).