🕵🏽 Debug VS Code Keyboard Shortcuts

#vscode #productivity #debugging

Sharing an article I originally wrote here

Problem

Whilst using VS Code my Cmd + N keyboard shortcut stopped creating a new file
I was stumped on how to figure out what was causing the issue

Solution

Looking around on Stack Overflow people suggested looking at the Keybindings as installed plugins can cause keyboard shortcut conflicts
In VS Code go to Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts
Whilst poking around here I discovered a handy little feature of VS Code where you can type a keyboard shortcut and find out what it's mapped to.
You just have to click the little keyboard icon (1)
I typed in Cmd + N and lo and behold it popped up with two entries and I found the source of the conflict and deleted the conflicting one

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