# Ctrl+F5 starts the debugger?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ctrl-f5-starts-the-debugger/43915>\
**Category:** VS Code\
**Created:** [July 29, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ctrl-f5-starts-the-debugger/43915 "2020-07-29T19:59:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ctrl-f5-starts-the-debugger/43915/1 "2020-07-29T19:59:40Z")

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I believe that according to the documentation this key binding should evaluate the file without the debugger. Yet, I can see that the debugger is activated when I do this. Is this expected?

Julia extension 0.17

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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ctrl-f5-starts-the-debugger/43915/2 "2020-07-29T20:55:02Z")

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I was now able to trace it to some tentative solutions  
to the problem of finding suitable key bindings. The solution for me was to  
use the command pallete “Julia: Execute File”.

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**Author:** ![pauljurczak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pauljurczak/32/921_2.png) [@pauljurczak](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pauljurczak)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 7:02am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ctrl-f5-starts-the-debugger/43915/3 "2020-07-30T07:02:15Z")

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Both `F5` and `Ctrl+F5` start the debugger in Julia extension v1.0.0. It would be nice to have it fixed, if possible.