@ptillisch, I know I have said it before, but anytime I see the same instructions over and over again, it make you feel like there should be a simpler way.
That is how many times a day do you have to put instructions in
Why not have a link in the File->Preferences dialog, that takes you directly to this? Like you have for IDE 1.
I know there is for sure probably an open issue on this. But...
Side note: at least on my windows machine hitting F1 does the same as the CTRL+Shift+P. Not sure if I did something long ago for this, or if that is true for everyone?
F1 also pops up the same dialog as ctl-shift-p here.
I am pretty sure I have never altered the function keys. Although as I recall in Windows, F1 was supposed to be for your help dialog.
This is the reason I always preferred the Ctrl+Shift+P keyboard shortcut. I might prefer the more keystroke efficient F1 if I used the "Command Palette" as a primary user interface to the IDE (as I suspect is done by some in VS Code), but I don't use it enough for the couple extra keypresses to be meaningful.
This keyboard shortcut is configurable. You might have either changed the shortcut associated with opening the "Command Palette", or else assigned that shortcut to some other command.
You can check by opening File > Advanced > Keyboard Shortcuts in Arduino IDE. The command for opening the "Command Palette" is shown as "workbench.action.showCommands" in that dialog:
F1 opens the advanced preferences but Ctrl+Shift+P does not. It just suddenly stopped at some stage???
Edit:
Just had an idea. At some stage I changed my keyboard - do not know if that was when the problem showed up. I checked with the previous one and Ctrl+Shift+P works just fine.
So, for some reason the new keyboard does not send the proper key combination to the PC. I do not know if it is a specific command used by the keyboard itself - it is not listed in the manual as using that combination. Oh well, at least F1 works just fine.
