There is an annoying behavior that you might run across in the Windows version of Vscode if you are using the Vsvim plugin when trying to use the default hotkey <ctrl+b> to toggle the sidebar open and closed. As far as I can tell, this glitch doesn’t exist in the OSX version of Vscode.
In vim, the shortcut for this toggle is actually used to scroll the page buffer up one screen. Obviously this makes behavior is the default for Vim but it also is annoying to not be able to open and close the sidebar. The solution is a simple hotkey remap for the keyboard shortcut in Vscode.
To do this, pull open the keyboard shortcuts by either navigating to File -> Preferences -> Keyboard shortcuts
Or by using the command pallet (ctrl + shift + p) and searching for “keyboard shortcut”.
Once the keyboard shortcuts have been pulled open just do a search for “sidebar” and you should see the default key binding.
Just click in the “Toggle Side Bar Visibility” box and remap the keybinding to Ctrl+Shift+B (since that doesn’t get used by anything by default in Vim). This menu is also really useful for just discovering all of the different keyboard shortcuts in Vscode. I’m not really a fan of going crazy and totally customizing hotkeys in Vscode just because it makes support much harder but in this case it was easy enough and works really well with my workflow.
