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GitHub.dev & Codespaces

Are you a GitHub.dev and/or Codespaces and/or vscode.dev user of Visual Studio Code in the browser? Are you also frustrated that Cmd+W (macOS) or Ctrl+W (Windows) closes the browser tab instead of the editor window? Re-bind workbench.action.closeActiveEditor to something like Ctrl+Cmd+W. You’ll also find that it persists across sessions.

[
    {
        "key": "ctrl+cmd+w",
        "command": "workbench.action.closeActiveEditor"
    },
    {
        "key": "cmd+w",
        "command": "-workbench.action.closeActiveEditor"
    }
]