Switch focus between editor and integrated terminal in Visual Studio Code

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Does anyone know the keyboard shortcut  Mac and Linux  to switch the focus between editor and integrated terminal in Visual Studio Code

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Try using ctrl   to toggles the visibility of the terminal and as a result toggle the focus

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While there are a lot of modal toggles and navigation shortcuts for VS Code  there isn t one specifically for  move from editor to terminal  and back again   However you can compose the two steps by overloading the key and using the when clause   Open the keybindings json from the editor  CMD-SHIFT-P -  Preferences  Open Keyboard Shortcuts File and add these entries      Toggle between terminal and editor focus    key    ctrl      command    workbench action terminal focus       key    ctrl      command    workbench action focusActiveEditorGroup    when    terminalFocus     With these shortcuts I will focus between the editor and the Integrated Terminal using the same keystroke

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ctrl     To Focus on Integrated Terminal ctrl 1   To Focus on Editor  If editor-2 command would be ctrl 2   More Info   https   www rscoder com 2020 11 14 how-to-switch-focus-between-editor-and-integrated-terminal-in-visual-studio-code

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As of version   1 26 1  linux   the shortcut is not set by default  To set the shortcut    open keyboard shortcuts panel  ctrl   k   ctrl   s  Search for Focus Terminal      Set your shortcut   For editor focus is already set by default

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Here is a way to add your own keybinding for switching focus   Open your VSCode Press Ctrl Shift P and search for keyboard shortcuts and hit this  Preferences  Open Keyboard shortcuts   Search for  focus terminal  in the search panel and find this option  Terminal  Focus on Terminal View  and click on the plus icon     Enter the shortcut as you like which is not used and hit Enter  Go to Editor mode and try using your shortcut  Now hit Alt Shift T to go to the terminal  Want to go back to the editor  Just Hit Ctrl tab  Tested on Windows 10 machine with VSCode 1 52 1

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I configured mine as following since I found ctrl   is a bit hard to press       quot key quot    quot ctrl k quot      quot command quot    quot workbench action focusActiveEditorGroup quot      quot when quot    quot terminalFocus quot          quot key quot    quot ctrl j quot      quot command quot    quot workbench action terminal focus quot      quot when quot    quot  terminalFocus quot     I also configured the following to move between editor group       quot key quot    quot ctrl h quot      quot command quot    quot workbench action focusPreviousGroup quot      quot when quot    quot  terminalFocus quot          quot key quot    quot ctrl l quot      quot command quot    quot workbench action focusNextGroup quot      quot when quot    quot  terminalFocus quot     By the way  I configured Caps Lock to ctrl on Mac from the System Preferences   gt  keyboard   gt Modifier Keys

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A little late to the game but I configured mine as the following in the keybindings json         quot key quot    quot ctrl   quot        quot command quot    quot workbench action terminal focus quot        quot when quot    quot editorTextFocus quot            quot key quot    quot ctrl   quot        quot command quot    quot workbench action focusActiveEditorGroup quot        quot when quot    quot terminalFocus quot            quot key quot    quot alt   quot        quot command quot    quot workbench action terminal toggleTerminal quot     I wanted separate keys for opening closing terminal and switching focus back and forth between the windows

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It s not exactly what is asked  but I found it very useful and related  If someone wants to change from one terminal to another terminal also open in the integrate terminal panel of Visual Studio  you can search for  Terminal  Focus Next Terminal Or add the following key shortcut and do it faster with keyboard combination           quot key quot    quot alt cmd right quot        quot command quot    quot workbench action terminal focusNext quot        quot when quot    quot terminalFocus quot                quot key quot    quot alt cmd left quot        quot command quot    quot workbench action terminal focusPrevious quot        quot when quot    quot terminalFocus quot

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Generally  VS Code uses ctrl j to open Terminal  so I created a keybinding to switch with ctrl k combination  like below at keybindings json                       quot key quot    quot ctrl k quot            quot command quot    quot workbench action terminal focus quot                        quot key quot    quot ctrl k quot            quot command quot    quot workbench action focusActiveEditorGroup quot            quot when quot    quot terminalFocus quot

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The default keybinding to toggle the integrated terminal is  quot Ctrl   quot  according to VS Code keyboard shortcuts documentation page  If you don t like that shortcut you can change it in your keybindings file by adding something similar to     quot key quot    quot ctrl l quot    quot command quot    quot workbench action terminal toggleTerminal quot     There does not seem to be a default keybinding for simply focusing the bottom panel  So  if you do not want to toggle the bottom panel  you will need to add something similar to the following to your keybindings file     quot key quot    quot ctrl t quot    quot command quot    quot workbench action focusPanel quot

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Here is my approach  which provides a consistent way of navigating between active terminals as well as jumping between the terminal and editor panes without closing the terminal view  You can try adding this to your keybindings json directly but I would recommend you go through the keybinding UI  cmd K cmd S on a Mac  so you can review manage conflicts etc  With this I can use ctrl x  lt arrow direction gt  to navigate to any visible editor or terminal  Once the cursor is in the terminal section you can use ctrl x ctrl up or ctrl x ctrl down to cycle through the active terminals  cmd-J is still used to hide show the terminal pane                 quot key quot    quot ctrl x right quot            quot command quot    quot workbench action terminal focusNextPane quot            quot when quot    quot terminalFocus quot                        quot key quot    quot ctrl x left quot            quot command quot    quot workbench action terminal focusPreviousPane quot            quot when quot    quot terminalFocus quot                        quot key quot    quot ctrl x ctrl down quot            quot command quot    quot workbench action terminal focusNext quot            quot when quot    quot terminalFocus quot                        quot key quot    quot ctrl x ctrl up quot            quot command quot    quot workbench action terminal focusPrevious quot            quot when quot    quot terminalFocus quot                        quot key quot    quot ctrl x up quot            quot command quot    quot workbench action navigateUp quot                        quot key quot    quot ctrl x down quot            quot command quot    quot workbench action navigateDown quot                        quot key quot    quot ctrl x left quot            quot command quot    quot workbench action navigateLeft quot            quot when quot    quot  terminalFocus quot                        quot key quot    quot ctrl x right quot            quot command quot    quot workbench action navigateRight quot            quot when quot    quot  terminalFocus quot

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control       will work for toggling between the two  and     is just above the tab button  This shortcut only works in mac

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I did this by going to setting Keyboard Shortcuts then in the section where it give a search bar type  focus terminal and select the option  It will ask to type the combination which you want to set for this action  DO it  As for editor focus type  editor focus  in the search bar and type your desired key  IF you excellently add a key   it can be removed by going to edit jason as mentioned in above comments

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The answer by Shubham Jain is the best option now using the inbuilt keyboard shortcuts   I mapped    to Ctrl      and remapped   to Ctrl   L  This way you can have move focus between terminal and editor  and toggle terminal all in close proximity

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SIMPLE WINDOWS SOLUTION FOR ANY KEYBOARD LAYOUT  may work for other OS but not tested   I use a Finnish keyboard so none of the above worked but this should work for all keyboards    Terminal focus  Hover your mouse over the terminal text in the integrated terminal  The shortcut for focusing on the terminal will pop up - mine for example said CTRL     Editor focus  as mentioned above use CTRL 1

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Hey my steps to make this work were   ctrl   shift  p and look for preferences  keyboard shortcuts  or you can use ctrl k   ctrl s to open it directly  Look in the search box for  Terminal  Focus Terminal  I set up for myself alt   T alt   T but you can select the combination that you want  Look in the search box for View  Focus Active Editor Group  set up for myself alt   E alt   E but again you can select the combination that you want   That s it  I hope this help

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Ctrl J works  but also shows hides the console

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Actually  in VS Code 1 48 1  there is a toggleTerminal command  I don t know if it was available in previous versions    You can utilize it in the keybindings json file  This worked for me on Windows  and should also works on Linux         quot key quot    quot ctrl alt right quot        quot command quot    quot workbench action terminal toggleTerminal quot        quot when quot    quot editorTextFocus    terminalFocus quot

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