VSCode Keymap for Kate

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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.

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

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