However VS Code had somehow worked around it and had working keybindings for my german keyboard layout from the beginning (oder at least for the time I use it).

However VS Code had somehow worked around it and had working keybindings for my german keyboard layout from the beginning (oder at least for the time I use it). On Atom in contrast lots of stuff including basic things like line comment loggling did not work. I even recall situtations where typing the @ character did not work without and resulted in the execution of some random command.