Support customisable alias for commands in command palette

swhib commented 6 years ago

VSCode Version: 1.23.0
OS Version: Linux

Is there a way to define an alias for a command so that the command can be called under multiple different names (original name and the alias)?

This is useful in different cases:

If you switch from a different editor that uses a command palette (like emacs, ... ) you might have learned the names of commands over many years. Relearning takes more time than making an alias once. This would also allow to use two editors in parallel without interference. Before I came to VSCode I used emacs. I regularly want to call diff-buffer-with-file and it takes me some time to figure out that in VSCode it's called Compare active file with saved.
You could define abbreviations that are quicker to type than selecting regular command names with the fuzzy search, e.g. tt. This is quite popular in emacs, see e.g. http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_alias.html
if you regularly hit keys in the wrong order an alias might be useful for command you regularly use.

I think I'm not the only one who likes such a feature: When I used emacs I checked quite a few popular user configurations that users keep on github. A lot of these contain aliases by using the command (defalias ...) - including popular/influential ones like spacemacs, abo-abo's oremacs, the config of the emacs maintainer ...

This has been asked on Reddit and stackoverflow without any useful answer.

aghArdeshir commented 5 years ago

Nice idea 😀 It would be great for changing New Folder to mkdir and New File to touch 👍

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ArturoDent commented 3 years ago

I made an extension command alias which allows you to set up aliases for commands and have those aliases show up in the Command Palette. For example, this setting:

 "command aliases": {
    "explorer.newFile": "touch",
    "explorer.newFolder": "mkdir"
  },

would produce a touch and a mkdir listing in the command palette. You can even have more than one alias for the same command.

For these settings changes to propagate to the command palette I believe it is necessary for a reload as the readme explains.

jahands commented 1 month ago

I would love this!! I use aliases a lot with Raycast. It's annoying having to type out commonly used commands (that I don't really want shortcuts for.)

microsoft / vscode

Support customisable alias for commands in command palette #50836