Vim: Toggle zen mode conflicts with vim commands

[lucastheisen]

What did you do?

From the View menu, I clicked Toggle Zen Mode. This put me in Zen mode as expected, but in Zen mode, all the menus are gone. There are 2 keyboard shortcuts that should get out of zen mode:

• Ctrl K + Z
• <esc><esc>

Neither works while in a code panel. The only way I was able to get out of Zen mode was to close all open code editor tabs until I saw the help page (show all commands, go to file, ...) then use <esc><esc>

What did you expect to happen?

Dunno, not sure what _should_ be expected, and its fairly easy to see how it could be a conflict...

What happened instead?

Stuck in Zen mode (not very Zen to get stuck like that)

Technical details:

• VSCode Version: 1.10.2
• VsCodeVim Version: [please ensure you are on the latest] 0.6.11
• OS: Windows 10 (1607)

[xconverge]

😆 hmm will need to think about something for this... for now you could probably map another key combination to leave zen mode through vscode

[johnfn]

I was able to get back by going to the command palette and doing "toggle zen mode" 😉

Interesting question though. Another possibility is you could make a keymapping that would associate a new keybinding with quitting Zen mode.

[johnfn]

I'm going to close this as I believe that making a new keybinding within VSCode is a completely reasonable solution to this problem. Feel free to discuss if you disagree.