The @theia/userstorage extension provides an API for accessing user storage files, i.e preferences, custom keymaps and other user-specific files without having to know how it's implemented. User storage files can then be accessed with userstorage uri scheme like so userstorage://settings.json and the user storage service implementation will then fetch the appropriate file.
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