- Open File > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts.
- Right-click on any command line and select Add Keybinding....
- Press in your desired shortcut keys(e.g. Alt+t).
- For my case, Alt+t already existed.
- I doubled click on 1 existing command has this keybinding to open it.
- Click on the Open Keyboard Shortcuts (JSON) button to open the JSON configuration settings.
- Change JSON to the following code and save the file.
{ "key": "alt+t", "command": "workbench.action.terminal.newWithCwd", "args": { "cwd": "${fileDirname}" } }
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