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Description

  • Improves keyboard accessibility by adding default shortcuts for essential commands.
  • Added New Command: Implemented continue.focusModelSelect (Cmd+Alt+M) to quickly toggle the model selection dropdown.
  • Added Keybindings: Assigned new shortcuts to existing commands:
  1. continue.newSession: Cmd+Alt+N
  2. continue.viewHistory: Cmd+Alt+H
  3. continue.selectFilesAsContext: Cmd+Alt+A

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Summary by cubic

Adds default shortcuts for starting a session, viewing history, selecting context files, and opening the model selector to improve keyboard navigation in the Continue VS Code extension. Introduces a new command to open and focus the model selector from the keyboard.

  • New Features

    • New command: continue.focusModelSelect
      • Shortcut: Cmd+Alt+M (mac), Ctrl+Alt+M (win/linux)
      • Opens and focuses the model selector in the sidebar
    • Keybindings:
      • continue.newSession: Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+N
      • continue.viewHistory: Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+H
      • continue.selectFilesAsContext: Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+A
  • Bug Fixes

    • Model selection dropdown reliably opens and focuses when triggered via shortcut.

Written for commit 10ca444. Summary will update on new commits.

@sarthakNITT sarthakNITT requested a review from a team as a code owner February 5, 2026 14:05
@sarthakNITT sarthakNITT requested review from Patrick-Erichsen and removed request for a team February 5, 2026 14:05
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