Feature Request: context sensitive keyboard shortcuts (e.g. editor: F5 starts debugger -> debugging: F5 continues to next breakpoint)

[afkrause]

It would be nice to have context dependent keyboard shortcuts.

Example:

1. i am in editing mode. i want to press F5 to run file in debug.
2. i am now in debugging mode. i press F5 again to continue to the next breakpoint

this would be similiar to the way visual studio behaves, but is currently not possible with Spyder. if two different actions have the same shortcut, then nothing happens anymore.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/default-keyboard-shortcuts-in-visual-studio?view=vs-2022

Also, it would be nice if a user defined shortcut scheme could be exported / imported.

[ccordoba12]

Hey @afkrause, thanks for reporting. Perhaps this is simpler to get accustomed to in Visual Studio because it has a single evaluation console (if I'm not mistaken). But in Spyder you can have as many consoles as you want, local and remote, and in different states too (i.e. debugging vs running code). In addition, you can easily can run code while debugging by pressing F5. So, I think it'd be a nightmare to use (and implement) the kind of shortcuts you propose, sorry.

But thanks for your interest in improving Spyder!