Quickfix in VS Code

Guy Waldman

July 18, 2024 (5 months ago)

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2 minutes

What's your workflow for whenever those red squigglies appear in Visual Studio Code?
Do you jump over to that line, click the lightbulb (or even better, Ctrl+. or ⌘+.) and apply the suggested fix?

Well, no more!

You can create a shortcut or even a vim keybinding to apply the first quickfix suggestion.

##Shortcut

Open your keybindings configurations (open the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) and search for Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts (JSON)), and add the following entry:

1{
2	"key": "cmd+k cmd+x", // Or any other keybinding you prefer.
3	"command": "editor.action.codeAction",
4	"args": {
5			"kind": "quickfix",
6			"apply": "first"
7	}
8}
9

##Vim keybinding

Open your user settings (open the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) and search for Preferences: Open User Settings (JSON)) and add the following entry:

1{
2	"before": [
3		"<leader>",
4		"x",
5		"x"
6	], // Or any other keybinding you prefer.
7	"commands": [
8		{
9			"command": "editor.action.codeAction",
10			"args": {
11				"kind": "quickfix",
12				"apply": "first"
13			}
14		}
15	]
16}
17

Note

The workspace settings file could also work, of course.
Doesn't have to be the user settings file.

##Extra: Jumping to the next error

To jump to the next error, you could add the following keybinding (to keybindings.json):

1{
2	"key": "cmd+k cmd+n", // Or any other keybinding you prefer.
3	"commands": [
4		"editor.action.marker.nextInFiles"
5	]
6}
7

Or for vim (settings.json):

1{
2  "before": ["<leader>", "n"], // Or any other keybinding you prefer.
3  "commands": ["editor.action.marker.nextInFiles"]
4}
5

##References

stackoverflow.com/questions/69205237/vs-code-keybinding-accept-quickfix-codeaction

VS Code keybinding: Accept quickfix codeAction

I'm trying to implement a small function by adding a shortcut for auto-correcting the last misspelled word, and this is...

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github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/33049

Keybinding for applying a specific code action

**Problem** Some code actions, such as extract method, may be used very often. This currently requires too many steps:...

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August 24, 2017

Quickfix in VS Code

##Shortcut

##Vim keybinding

##Extra: Jumping to the next error

##References

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