I was trying to figure out how to toggle the side bar, and apparently ctrl + b is the way to do it, but when I perform it, it opens up the that input bar in the middle of the top portion of the editor, just below the menu bar, with "edt " (including the space) typed in.
My keybindings.json file shows that I should ctrl+b should indeed toggle the side menu.
If I delete the "edt " and press ctrl+b, it just regenerates it.
Anyone know how to fix this? Nothing shows up on Google either.
ctrl + b is bound to Add Function Breakpoint by default. You can edit the shortcuts from File->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts.
File > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts will show you a list of shortcuts.
You can search for Toggle Side Bar Visibility or workbench.action.toggleSidebarVisibility to see what the current shortcut bindings are, and edit them.
Mine were also showing the edt behavior you described, and were set to accept Ctrl + \ as well as Ctrl + K Ctrl + B for toggling the side bar visibility. Ctrl + \ may be worth trying out if you do not want to go through the hassle of finding a new non-clashing key combination to set as the shortcut.
If you see edt, it is because ctrl+b is bound by default to View: Show All Editors By Appearance.
As others have mentioned, use File > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts (or find it in the command palette with ctrl+p), then search for "Show All Editors By Appearance" and remove that key binding.
You may also remove any other ctrl+b bindings there, if they're in your way by searching for "ctrl+b".
Ctrl+B is normally worked in toggling sidebar in Visual Code, but some extensions prevent it, because ctrl+b is used in these extensions as a shortcut.
To solve this problem:
You should go to
File > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts
and then, you will change the shortcuts used as ctrl + b
View: Toggle Side Bar Visibility
