Can't control tabbing in Visual Studio Code

Question

When I press Ctrl Tab the windows cycle through most recently used order.
This is winding me up!

So I read up the solution:

To achieve this in Visual Studio Code, you have to edit keybindings.json. Use the Command Palette with CTRL+SHIFT+P, enter "Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts (JSON)", and hit Enter.

Then add to the end of the file:

[
// ...
{
"key": "ctrl+tab",
"command": "workbench.action.nextEditor"
},
{
"key": "ctrl+shift+tab",
"command": "workbench.action.previousEditor"
}
]

That's all good. But then when I try to edit the file, I get this message 'Cannot edit in read-only mode editor'.
OK... so I'll use another editor. I right click on the tab and there is an option 'Open in other editor...' (or something like that). When I click that, nothing happens.

When I search for solutions on 'Cannot edit in read-only mode editor' I get answers to other problems.

Where am I going wrong?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi @Omar ,

You are using Visual Studio Code, which is different from Visual Studio. The tag “vs-general” is related to Visual Studio, for more questions about Visual Studio Code, please post it to the Stack Overview tagged visual-studio-code forum or GitHub repository where you would get professional support for this product.

Thanks for your understanding.

Sincerely,
Anna
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