For vertical scrolling, I am used to using page up and page down keyboard keys. I also know that I can hold alt to scroll quickly vertically with the scrollwheel / touchpad. Are there analogous actions for scrolling horizontally quickly in VS Code?
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As far as I'm aware, at the time of this writing, there is no keyboard shortcut command in VS Code for scrolling horizontally by pages, but you can hack a shoddy solution by just using runCommands
and binding keyboard shortcuts to invoke the horizontal scroll commands multiple times. Ex.
{
"key": "ctrl+alt+left",
"command": "runCommands",
"args": {
"commands": ["scrollLeft","scrollLeft","scrollLeft","scrollLeft","scrollLeft"],
},
},
{
"key": "ctrl+alt+right",
"command": "runCommands",
"args": {
"commands": ["scrollRight","scrollRight","scrollRight","scrollRight","scrollRight"],
},
},
If you like history, the feature-request that got the horizontal scrolling commands added was Add keyboard shortcuts for scrolling horizontally #143466.
As for the scrollwheel and touchpad, the same alt feature should work for horizontal scrolling (which is done by holding shift), so you'd hold shift+alt while scrolling.

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