Is it possible to make a full-screen editor in VSCode?

I would like to configure a shortcut to make an active window full-screen.

You need to edit keybindings. Press Ctrl+K and then Ctrl+S to open keyboard shortcuts.

If you're on a mac, use Command key instead of Ctrl.

Search full screen in search bar. You will see something like this:

screenshot

Click on the result. Press Ctrl+K and Ctrl+K (again!) or click pencil icon to edit the shortcut. Press desired key combination. That's it.

And here are some more shortcuts to learn:

Press Ctrl+K and then Z to open editor in full screen without explorer and terminal, etc. And you can use Ctrl+B to show/hide side bar and Ctrl+J to show terminal and console panel.

Download keyboard shortcuts file here for your favourite OS.

To make these hotkeys work in vim-mode:

Actually VSCodeVim will take over your control keys. This behaviour can be adjusted with the useCtrlKeys and handleKeys settings. Go to File>>Preferences>>Keyboard Shortcuts. Search for Ctrl+k in search bar. You will see extension.vim_ctrl+k as below:

screenshotVim

Change this hotkey. Now it should work.


VS Code Editor Full Screen Without Explorer and Terminal - Press Ctrl + K then Z (Zen Mode)

To exit from the full screen mode, press Esc two times.


I use this on OSX, hope it will be helpful. Just replace command code with codef.

#!bin/sh
codef() {
  code $* && sleep 0.5 && /usr/bin/osascript -e \
    'tell application "Visual Studio Code"
      activate
      tell application "System Events"
          keystroke "f" using {control down, command down}
      end tell
    end tell'
}