How to pre-filter showCommands in VSCode's quickOpen panel

Question

I got a few extensions that add 4, 6 or more commands and I don\'t want to set a shortcut for each of them. Ideally I could create a shortcut to show all commands of that ex

Answer 1

Try using this (with whatever keybinding you choose) :

{
  "key": "alt+z",
  "command" : "workbench.action.quickOpen", 
   "args"   : ">task marks",
   "when"   : "editorTextFocus"
}

I got the syntax from issues: adding an argument to the quickOpen panel.

Oddly, this will not work:

"command": "workbench.action.showCommands", 
"args": "task marks",

Only the workbench.action.quickOpen command will take the argument.