VSCode Keymap for Kate

Posted on Feb 28, 2026

I’ve recently switched to Kate as my main text editor along, and using the LSP client for auto-complete and refactoring assistance.

It’s very good! And there’s nothing I miss - their default keymappings are great but unfortunately my muscle memory is firmly stuck in VSCode-land.

So I spent an afternoon re-binding all the keybinds to their VSCode counterparts.

Here they are! Enjoy.

To use these, Head to Kate, then go to
Settings -> Configure Keyboard Shortcuts -> Manage Schemes -> More Actions -> Import Scheme