Is it possible to rebind what e key does in normal mode to do yank instead?

[nikitavoloboev]

I want to rebind e key in normal mode to instead of going to end of word, to do copy or yank in vim terms.

Is it possible to do?

[dobrovolsky]

You can try add something like this to your settings.json

"vim.normalModeKeyBindingsNonRecursive": [
    {
      "before": ["e"],
      "after": ["y", "i", "w"]
    }
]

[nikitavoloboev]

Both your suggestion and this:

  "vim.normalModeKeyBindings": [
    {
      "before": ["e"],
      "after": ["y"]
    },

Didn't work for me. It still did what e does, go to end of word.

[berknam]

Can you give more information about your system, vscode and extension versions?

Both the remaps above should work. Are you trying to switch those two keys? Do you have some other remap for y?

[glm4610]

Maybe unrelated, but this workaround fixed some problems I had after remapping some keys around:

Workaround to switch VS Code to dispatch based on key code again. Add the following setting:
"keyboard.dispatch": "keyCode" and restart VS Code

See also:

microsoft/vscode#23991

[J-Fields]

@nikitavoloboev Is this still an issue you're having?

[nikitavoloboev]

@J-Fields Yes, still an issue for me as @dobrovolsky solution didn't work for me.

[J-Fields]

@nikitavoloboev Can you please post your settings? What does e do after creating a remapping?