toggleAuxiliaryBar (hide chat pane) keyboard shortcuts don't work when the chat input has focus

[garymm]

There seems to currently be no way to hide the chat pane when the chat input field has focus. As described here: https://github.com/getcursor/cursor/issues/833#issuecomment-1772606399

I would like something like this to work:

  {
    "key": "cmd+l",
    "command": "workbench.action.toggleAuxiliaryBar",
    "when": "auxiliaryBarFocus"
  }

Interestingly the default shortcut for this ("cmd+alt+b") seems to work even when the chat input has focus. Maybe the "when" condition is wrong? I tried to figure it out using the "inspect context keys" feature but that doesn't seem to work at all (don't print anything to the console).

[dgokcin]

I have the same issue. I and it is really interesting to see that it works the way I want it to work with the default shortcut. As soon as I want to change it to command shift b, it stops working. Have you been able to find a workaround? @garymm

also @jakobFNF any updates for the issue you mentioned in the linked comment above about addressing shortcuts getting blocked when focus on the chat window?

  {
    "key": "shift+cmd+b",
    "command": "workbench.action.toggleAuxiliaryBar"
  },

[Marty-W]

It works for me with these keybindings:

    { "key": "ctrl+q","command": "aichat.newfollowupaction", "when": "editorFocus" },
    {
      "key": "ctrl+q",
      "command": "workbench.action.toggleAuxiliaryBar",
    }

[IP0]

It works for me with these keybindings:

    { "key": "ctrl+q","command": "aichat.newfollowupaction", "when": "editorFocus" },
    {
      "key": "ctrl+q",
      "command": "workbench.action.toggleAuxiliaryBar",
    }

Cannot confirm this working. I can press CTRL+Q to open it, but I cannot close it because the chat is in focus.

[powdaze]

it works for me ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[mjmaurer]

It works for me with these keybindings:

    { "key": "ctrl+q","command": "aichat.newfollowupaction", "when": "editorFocus" },
    {
      "key": "ctrl+q",
      "command": "workbench.action.toggleAuxiliaryBar",
    }

Cannot confirm this working. I can press CTRL+Q to open it, but I cannot close it because the chat is in focus.

This also doesn't work for me. There are multiple bindings that don't work with chat input focused (alt-i, alt-o, cmd-o). For some reason, alt-t does.

Also, it's not just toggleAuxiliaryBar that doesn't work. It seems to be a problem with the bindings themselves for me

I wrote more about this on a different issue: https://github.com/getcursor/cursor/issues/1685#issuecomment-2434293516