spencermountain / alt-up

vscode extension for easy file-navigation

alt-up

vsCode extension to navigate files intuitively

_{by Spencer Kelly}

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Most file explorers support the 'alt-up' keyboard shortcut, to navigate up a directory.

This is a vsCode extension to implement this, in an intuitive way.

Commands

Alt-up

• looks for a parent '../index' file with the same extension
• if not found, looks for files in root with same extension
• (does not go above workspace root)

Alt-down

• looks for files in child directories
• looks for index files with the same extension
• if there are choices, creates a dropdown to choose

Alt-file-left

• looks for sibling files before current one

Alt-file-right

• looks for sibling files before after one

The extension was build with this mental-model for navigation,

but because the vscode looks like this,

it may make sense to 'rotate' your keybindings 90deg:

[
  {
    "key": "ctrl+left",
    "command": "extension.alt-up"
  },
  {
    "key": "ctrl+right",
    "command": "extension.alt-down"
  },
  {
    "key": "ctrl+up",
    "command": "extension.alt-file-left"
  },
  {
    "key": "ctrl+right",
    "command": "extension.alt-file-right"
  }
]

See also

• what-links-here

MIT