My current workflow has me opening upwards of 4 or 5 different VSCode work spaces. It is nearly impossible to quickly keep straight which work space is which. The only indication given is in the title bar of the individual window, which means I'm often clicking through the windows to find the correct one. It doesn't appear to be possible to rearrange the order of the VSCode task bar items within themselves (only in their current ordering with other apps).
Is there a way to rearrange the workspace name and the current file name to make the workspace first and the filename second?
Or is there a way to assign custom icons per workspace?
With the setting window.title you can configure which parts are shown and there order.
Use the Setting GUI to see the possible fields.
${dirty}${rootName}${separator}${activeEditorShort}${separator}${appName}
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Is there a way to configure VS Code to increase the number of files that are able to be displayed across the tabs at the top?
There are currently just 4 files1 visible in that top area, but ~10 would be ideal:
Example
Sublime text uses smaller font on file names (despite similar font size of the code itself), and so allows about twice as much space for displaying files:
Current work around
I hit opt + command + right arrow a few times to quickly survey open files.
Ideas
Perhaps open files could be quickly surveyed (without key presses) if it is possible to:
Expand the area to have more than 1 row of files
Configure VS Code to show only part of the filename
Use smaller font on the file names (not the code itself), similar to sublime text
Something else?
1 The habits of using long file names, and having a lot of files open at the same time don't help, I'm aware of that.
workbench.editor.tabSizing
There's the "workbench.editor.tabSizing": "shrink" setting value, which is documented as so:
Allow tabs to get smaller when the available space is not enough to show all tabs at once.
(the default value for workbench.editor.tabSizing) is "fit".
workbench.editor.wrapTabs
As other have mentioned, there's the workbench.editor.wrapTabs setting, which you can find more about in this Q&A: Multirow Tabs for VSCode.
TL;DR from the setting's description:
Controls whether tabs should be wrapped over multiple lines when exceeding available space or whether a scrollbar should appear instead. This value is ignored when #workbench.editor.showTabs# is disabled.
git.decorations.enabled
You can shave a few pixels by disabling git decorations if you're working on a git project (of course- this is only if you're okay with disabling git decorations). Git decorations add letter indicators to the tab handles that summarize what has changed about those files. Ex. "M" means the file has been modified, and "A" means it has been added.
"git.decorations.enabled": false
workbench.editor.tabCloseButton
You can shave a few pixels by disabling the close button on tabs (if you're okay with that (you'll still be able to close the tab with the associated keyboard shortcut, or by middle-clicking the tab handle)):
"workbench.editor.tabCloseButton": "off"
workbench.editor.showTabs
If your aim is really to declutter, you can take the hardcore/nuclear route and do:
"workbench.editor.showTabs": false,
Et voila! Now the tab handles take up zero space because they're gone :D (and you can navigate tabs using ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab (that's on Windows and Linux- not sure what it is on MacOS), or by using the Explorer view's "Open Editors" section (you might need to enable it first under the three-dots menu))
I recently switched to using Neovim/Spacevim, and it's freakin' awesome! I have been trying to change some settings and install plugins to emulate as close as possible to my previous VSCode development environment.
I'm nearly there, except the only thing missing is one feature I really loved. In any file, wherever my cursor was located, at the top of the status bar in VSCode, it would display the function/method (or variable, object, etc.) name.
Does anyone know if this is possible in Neovim/Spacevim. If my cursor is located within a function named someFunction, how would I get someFunction to be displayed somewhere in the status bar? I am using the standard statusline bar, no plugins for that (though am willing to install one if it does what I need).
Using multiple screens I normally place multiple classes (files) in different screens, this helps me a lot while refactoring, checking tests and comparing changes.
Visual Studio Code does not allow me to drag a tab outside the window and view it in (for example) another monitor.
I checked the documentation and plugins, but the only way I found, is to open two windows, pointing to the same project (folder) and put those in different screens.
I don't like this solution, that causes also some problem when I watch code changes using TypeScript.
Any suggestion?
I use Windows 10, latest version of VSCode.
A solution is to press CTRL+K and after releasing CTRL, press O.
This will open the current file in a new window.
There are few things I don't like about this solution:
- Drag and Drop does not work
- Create a new instance of VS Code resulting in (for me) 180MB of ram used
- To open the file it takes to me few seconds (quite slow)
- The file remains open in the original window as well
Update 20/03/2019:
There is a feature request you can track here:
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/10121
And an explanation about why this is difficult to implement here:
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/10121#issuecomment-345770248
Update 20/03/2019:
Another important side effect highlighted by #Mär is that:
the IntelliSense fails to establish references it had when the file
was opened in the window, where the entire project is opened
The easy way but with the same drawbacks. More ram and resources will be used. Is to wrap your project in a folder.
It's the best possible thing. As by now!
=> Duplicate the workspace.
Open the command pannel ctrl+shift+p or F1.
Then write dupl
You'll get that
That's it.
More
If you want to add more folder to the working space.
=> go to File then Add Folder To Workspace
You can add as many as you like.
Also better more
You can open a new window (ex: ctrl+n)
And then go File > Add Folder To Workspace.
And start adding folders to your new Workspace. You can add any folder, that is already open or not. That's too way great. You can have all the needed folders for example in the second screen.
A little hack I used is to just stretch the editor window to fill both screens and split the view pane between the monitors such that both screens show just one open file.
This is a cheap hack that works without opening multiple instances of VSC.
It may not be the proper solution, but it works without eating up all my system memory.
I found the following way to work on multiple monitors (important: they must be the same size and resolution):
open a visual studio in windowed mode on the 1st monitor (in my case it is a left monitor)
move the window to the (left) top corner
stretch window to the 2nd monitor (right) bottom corner
split screen by clicking “split editor” several times
move the code sections separator to the edge between the monitors
This is old qestion, but such way can be useful for someone. It is not very convenient, but it works. The solution may have already appeared in the VS itself, but I didn't find it.
Visual Studio Code does not allow me to drag a tab outside the window and view it in (for example) another monitor
Actually, VSCode 1.57 (May 2021, 4 years later) will propose something close:
Improved editor drag and drop across windows
Support for dragging editors to other windows was improved in this release. You can now drag diff editors, custom editors and the entire editor group to another window to open the editors there.
My solution was to use Remote-ssh to connect to self and open in another window. This does take extra resources. But I find this comfortable as I don't need to create additional workspace.
For me on Ubuntu the solution was to create a project folder symlink and ope it in a new window (as it won't open the same folder in another window)
Very often I work with multiple projects in MATLAB and have a group of files for each project that I access at one time. Having all files of all projects open causes a lot of clutter in the workspace. One can do this for one single set of files by docking which is well known.
Is there a way to tab projects, or have multiple MATLAB editors (for each project) open with multiple tabs in each (with the projects files). The question can be found here too. In the same vein, are there other code editors which can be used to perform the same?
Project1
file 1.m
file 2.m
file 3.m
file 4.m
Project2
file 1.m
file 2.m
file 3.m
file 4.m
Either in the same window, or in different windows.
Unfortunately I don't believe MATLAB can do that kind of project/file management for you, which is why I use Sublime Text 2. It's perfect for that kind of project/file management... and not to mention the awesome shortcuts and quick editing tools to help you code faster.
Check them out: http://www.sublimetext.com/. The one drawback is that it's nagware. It is free to use, provided you can bare the popups to buy a copy of the software every now and then. Once you buy it, the popups go away. Give it a try and see how it goes!
If someone still need a solution for that-
You can just drag a tab of one file to the side, or bottom of the space of the editor, like that:
And the result will be:
Now you can drag in the same way other tabs to the new tabs group, and you have two separate tabs groups (but one Editor window..). You can of course drag the middle edge line to the right-end, and work fully only with the first group, or drag it to the left-end and work fully with the second one.
Note for one drawback here- if the line is in one of the ends, you don't see the tabs status and files names of the hidden group, and if you forget that you opened some file there and try to open it again, you will not see it opened, or any change in the IDE, because the control goes to the already opened tab but you not see it.
When working with MVC in Eclipse you might often have a model, view, and controller all with the same name open at the same time. When looking at each of the file tabs, you won't always know which is which and have to click through them, which can be quite a hassle sometimes. I've heard of being able to color code files based on the path in some editors. For example, tabs with path model could be set as green, path controller set as yellow, etc. Is this possible in Eclipse, or is there a plugin for something like this? If not, what do you do to more easily differentiate between the tabs? I've heard of people always opening a MVC set in a certain order. So you'll know the leftmost tab is the controller, the right most is the view, etc. However, that must also mean you need to open all 3 files each time. Any better tips or tricks?
Another thing about the file tabs that can be annoying is that when you have more files that can't fit in one line, eclipse pushes off to an arrow which you have to click to see the rest. It seems to be random which tabs get pushed off there, maybe the least used ones, I have no idea... This coupled with the problem above gets kind of annoying. I was trying to find a way to disable this and just show tabs that can't fit in one line to show up on a second line, but surprisingly couldn't find such an option (then again you also can't wordwrap without a plugin).
Hopefully there are some solutions to these two problems. Thanks.
Maybe this can be helpful
http://www.dipherence.com/2011/03/20/full-coloured-eclipse-navigator-plug-in/
With the latest version of Eclipse (Kepler 4.3.1, build M20130911-1000) when two or more files with the same base name are opened, tab will show also the parent directory name.