Remapping ":"

[airstrike]

I've looked around quite a bit trying to find a solution but came up empty. I'd like to remap : and ; as I find shift+; to be significantly more annoying to repeatedly type than simply ;

In vanilla vim, I use

nnoremap ; :
nnoremap : ;

And that does the trick. I don't believe I can do the same in VS Code today, so I'm opening this feature request.

[sql-koala]

Hi, you can do this. With, 1.12 there is support for "parsing" mappings from a vimrc.
I would give a separate path for vscodevim like this (because, as I understand it, only simple mappings are supported right now):

And then you can put these lines there.

Pre 1.12, you would do that in your settings.json. This is described here:
https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim
"Key Remapping"

[airstrike]

Pre 1.12, you would do that in your settings.json. This is described here:
https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim
"Key Remapping"

I've read that article twice but still don't see how that's possible. Closest I got was by adding

{
  "key": "shift+;",
  "command": "vim.showQuickpickCmdLine",
  "when": "editorTextFocus && vim.mode != 'Insert'"
}

to my keybindings.json but vim.showQuickpickCmdLine isn't quite the same as the regular command line

[airstrike]

I can, however, confirm that using nnoremap in a vimrc file works, and indeed works better than the keybindings.json approach. Feels like that setting is buried under a bunch of other "more granular" ones, though.

The latter would incorrectly pop up the QuickpickCmdLine when doing e.g. r; in normal mode to replace a single character with ;