Keyboard shortcut to take file out of preview mode in VSCode

Question

If I quick open a file using the quick open menu, is there a keyboard shortcut that will take the opened file outside of preview mode so that when I open a

Answer 1

If you would rather open the file directly from Quick Open (skipping the preview mode altogether), you can change this in the settings or add this to settings.json:

"workbench.editor.enablePreviewFromQuickOpen": false

If you want to disable previews for other means of opening files (like the project explorer), this will do the trick:

"workbench.editor.enablePreview": false