Navigate between words in two ways using different separators

Question

Thanks to Visual Studio Code—Customizing word separators I was able to set underscore as separator. So now whenever I press Ctrl+Left Arrow, VS code recognizes that the word starts right after the underscore. However sometimes I want go at the very beginning of the variable/function/class name and, using underscore as separator, I have to press Ctrl+Left Arrow several times to get there. Is there any way to get a behavior like:

• Ctrl+Left Arrow it considers underscore as separator
• Ctrl+Alt+Left Arrow it doesn't consider underscore as separator

Answer 1

Another possible way for achieving the desired behaviour is through the following steps:

1. Exclude _ from the word separators in case you still have it included.

2. Add the two following keybindings to your keybindings.json :

    {      
       "key": "ctrl+shift+left",    
        "command": "cursorWordLeft",
        "when": "textInputFocus"
    },
   
    {
        "key": "ctrl+left",
        "command": "cursorWordPartLeft",
        "when": "textInputFocus"
    }
   

The first keybinding allows you to move to the left of a word by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Left Arrow.

The second keybinding allows you to move to the left of a word by pressing Ctrl + Left Arrow but considering _ this time.