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Stop clicking. Start commanding. Lynx Keymap Pro puts one keybinding layout underneath VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Trae.ai, Kiro, and Antigravity, so the muscle memory you build in one editor doesn’t reset the moment you open another.

This page is the reference. Keep it open the first week.

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CLI, Skills & AI

Command	Shortcut
New AI session	Alt + A
Show AI chat history	Alt + S
AI select code	Alt + D
Smart-close (AI chat / terminal)	Ctrl + Tab
CLI panel (needs F1)	Alt + E
GitLab panel	Alt + R
Skills panel	Ctrl + 3 / ⌘ + 3
OpenCode / Claude Code	Alt + CapsLock

Smart-close is context-aware: if the terminal is occupying the side panel it closes the terminal, otherwise it opens or closes the AI chat.

Git

Run these from Source Control (Ctrl + 2) — they’re not global.

Command	Shortcut
Stage all	Alt + 1
AI commit message	Alt + 2
Unstage all	Alt + 3
Commit	Alt + Enter
Push	Ctrl + Alt + Enter
View changes	Alt + L
Reset hard HEAD	Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Backspace

That last one has no confirmation dialog — it’s one keystroke from a clean working tree to a gone one.

Debugging

Command	Shortcut
Start	Alt + P
Restart	Alt + O
Stop	Alt + I

Compact Mode — 75%

Alt + 0 swaps the standard layout for one that doesn’t assume a function row or an arrow cluster:

Command	Shortcut
Start / restart / stop debugging	Insert / Alt + Insert / Ctrl + Insert
View Git changes	PageUp
Markdown preview	PageDown
Zoom in / out	Shift + Alt + Vol ↑ / Shift + Alt + Vol ↓

Settings & Terminal

Command	Shortcut
Open settings (UI / JSON)	Ctrl + J / Alt + J
Select theme	Shift + Alt + T
Quick Open (replacement)	Shift + Alt + E
Smart new terminal	Ctrl + Shift + `
Swap terminal (chord)	Alt + Q then W
Close terminal (chord)	Alt + Q then E

The backquote key is remapped across 14+ international keyboard layouts, so the terminal shortcuts above work the same whether the physical key sits where US, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Japanese, or Turkish layouts put it.

Installation

Press Ctrl + P, paste the following command, and press Enter:

ext install bastndev.lynx-keymap

Or search Lynx Keymap Pro (publisher: bastndev) in the Extensions panel, or get it from open-vsx.org for Cursor, Windsurf, Trae.ai, and Kiro.

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Ctrl + P and Ctrl + Enter are intentionally disabled — the former to avoid a conflict with the shortcuts above (Shift + Alt + E replaces Quick Open), the latter because GitHub Copilot’s Generate binding collides with the terminal and git-commit workflow. Both are one entry in keybindings.json away from coming back. Separately, Alt + CapsLock may not register on systems that remap CapsLock at the OS level.

🧩 Complementary Extensions

Extension	Description
F1	One panel for every AI coding CLI — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more.
Lynx Theme Pro	Eight themes and three icon styles, in one extension.
ATM	Error Lens, Git blame, .env protection, and code screenshots in one toolkit.

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