Getting the pipe shortcut to work in Positron

R-bloggers · Oct 20, 2026

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TLDR: For the life of me, I couldn’t get Ctrl+Shift+M to work for inserting pipes (|>) when editing a Quarto document in Positron visual mode. After countless hours fiddling with keybindings.json, I developed a functional, but obtuse workaround for Windows. It’s not pretty, but it…