Auto Hide KB ^{VS Code}

Auto Hide VSCode sidebar, panel and notifications, with better keyboard-only usage experience.

New Features

🎯 More Trigger Methods

Auto Hide KB can be triggered by the cursor, keyboard, or even commands.

🔄 Mode Switching

Auto/Manual mode is provided.

📊 Status Bar

• Pin sidebar
• Display and toggle --AUTO--, --MANUAL--
• Run hide immediately

🚀 And More...

1. Cursor chat panel support
2. Whitelist

Note

How do i use manual mode?

In manual mode, we stop detecting all your events.

Instead, you can now bind autoHide.runHide command to your specific use case - custom keybindings in VS Code.

See: Full Example

Configurations

Key	Description	Type	Default
autoHide.enable	Whether enable Auto Hide	boolean	true
autoHide.ui	UI hideable settings	object	{"sidebar":true,"auxiliaryBar":true,"panel":true,"references":false,"notifications":true,"cursor":false}
autoHide.triggerOnOpen	Whether trigger when open	boolean	true
autoHide.triggerKind	Use which kind of event to trigger hide	array	["mouse","command","keyboard"]
autoHide.mode	Auto/Manual mode	string	"auto"
autoHide.throttleTime	Throttle trigger time in ms	number	500
autoHide.whitelist	Set editor whitelist , support RegExp, default match status is focus	array	["git","output",{"match":"debug","status":["visible"]}]
autoHide.statusBar	Control statusBar display	object	See package.json
autoHide.navigateFallback	Navigate fallback settings	object	{"left":"sidebar","right":"auxiliaryBar","down":"panel"}

Commands

Command	Title
autoHide.toggleEnable	Auto Hide: Toggle enable
autoHide.toggleMode	Auto Hide: Toggle manual/auto mode
autoHide.runHide	Auto Hide: Run hide immediately
autoHide.togglePinSidebar	Auto Hide: Toggle pin sidebar
autoHide.togglePinAuxiliaryBar	Auto Hide: Toggle pin auxiliary bar
autoHide.togglePinPanel	Auto Hide: Toggle pin panel

Navigate

Navigate Command	Description
autoHide.action.navigateLeft	workbench.action.navigateLeft with fallback to Sidebar
autoHide.action.navigateRight	workbench.action.navigateRight with fallback to Auxiliary Bar
autoHide.action.navigateDown	workbench.action.navigateDown with fallback to Panel
autoHide.action.focusActiveEditorGroupWithHide	workbench.action.focusActiveEditorGroup with autoHide

See Usage

License

MIT License © 2020-PRESENT Kevin Kwong & Matthew Spencer