Visual Studio Code - How to jump by word with [Alt]+[Left/Right]

Question

I've started using Visual Studio Code on MacOS.

Jumping with Alt+Left/Right is really annoying as it jumps by full identifier instead of just a word.

Examples:

• ▼create_foo() Alt+Right create_foo▼()
• ▼createFoo() Alt+Right createFoo▼()

I'd like e.g. Ctrl+Right to do the thing above and to modify the behaviour of Alt+Right so it jumps by word.

My desired behaviour:

• ▼create_foo() Alt+Right create_▼foo()
• ▼create_foo() Ctrl+Right create_foo▼()

Solution:

My final keybindings.jsonconfig with the added Shift (select) options:

[
    {
        "key": "alt+left",
        "command": "cursorWordPartLeft",
        "when": "editorTextFocus",
    },
    {
        "key": "alt+right",
        "command": "cursorWordPartRight",
        "when": "editorTextFocus",
    },
    {
        "key": "shift+alt+left",
        "command": "cursorWordPartLeftSelect",
        "when": "editorTextFocus"
    },
    {
        "key": "shift+alt+right",
        "command": "cursorWordPartRightSelect",
        "when": "editorTextFocus"
    },
    {
        "key": "ctrl+left",
        "command": "cursorWordStartLeft",
        "when": "editorTextFocus"
    }, 
    {
        "key": "ctrl+right",
        "command": "cursorWordEndRight",
        "when": "editorTextFocus"
    },
    {
        "key": "shift+ctrl+left",
        "command": "cursorWordStartLeftSelect",
        "when": "editorTextFocus"
    },
    {
        "key": "shift+ctrl+right",
        "command": "cursorWordEndRightSelect",
        "when": "editorTextFocus"
    },
]

Answer 1

You are looking for

cursorWordPartRight

which is bound to Shift-Alt-Q.

Alt-Right is bound to a "Go Forward" command, you could delete that binding and use it for the cursorWordPartRight command.

{
    "key": "alt+right",
    "command": "cursorWordPartRight",
    "when": "editorTextFocus",
  },
  {
    "key": "alt+left",
    "command": "cursorWordPartLeft",
    "when": "editorTextFocus",
  }

It may require that each language parser support it though. It does work in JavaScript.

cursorWordPartLeft (command exists but is unbound by default).

There are also these other unbound relevant commands:

cursorWordPartRightSelect
cursorWordPartLeftSelect
cursorWordPartStartLeft
cursorWordPartStartLeftSelect