But detachable debug would be really good. Even more, the windows are all equal, fully functional windows, meaning you can open a second window and close the original project window and you still have a full project window. A file explorer? https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc%20label%3Afeature-request. When dragging a tab outside of the window, it either displays a and doesn't let me drop, or, when dropped on top of a Windows Explorer window, it copies the file @CherryDT This issue is still open and marked as Backlog. Sign in 87 7. is bound to "Open Active File in New Window". or mute the thread I see editor tabs as more important than the others. ((socket-guid)) --root-window ((root-window-guid)). It's not the cleanest way of supporting multiple monitors/windows, however you can do the following: Now drag a tab in your already existing Visual Studio Code window into the new window you just opened. @kapalkat to clarify, this issue is about detaching parts of the UI, such as the terminal, explorer and debugger, from the main window. We all know the limitations of the platform, we try to give relevance to the topic so Microsoft team gives importance to the issue. FWIW, I use 4 monitors side-by-side. To all the people who propose the workaround with 2 windows. If you really want VSCode featured in multiple windows, why not try to fork and make it possible by yourself? Terminal selection can be forced by holding the Alt key on Windows and Linux, this can also be done with the Option key on macOS but requires enabling the terminal.integrated.macOptionClickForcesSelection setting first. . Especially considering the speculation in this thread, that it might not be possible at all. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/24/andreessen-horowitz-london-virtual-reality-startup-improbable Not having it is a deal breaker. If we stuck by architectural limitation that cost too much to make it happen, Why not just close it and going forward. The default visibility is designed to save horizontal space, but may not be desirable. If the feature is built in now. You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. After that we should be able to control child from parent via webContents. So many requests for this, and they are consistently coming in too. I'm not sure why this feature never gets progressed as it has massive support and given code is electron app it's perfectly doable and degradable if you ever ran outside of electron. This discussion is outside the scope of this thread and could be talked about here (hey, actually, it's already everything we said so far! If I were working on a git project, I could see how my current workflow of opening a new window and dragging files there would only allow me to take folder/git actions from the original window. The last time I downloaded it was a couple of months ago and it's size was about 7 or 8 GB back then. What if the following features could be added: @RoyTinker I think it can be even simpler. You can't debug in the other editor either. @MangelMaxime I think this issue should be frozen / restricted until someone can actually work on it (from VSCode team). Additionally one monitor is definitely cheaper than two. Wouldn't it be possible to launch a new window, and do communication between the parent window and the child via the webContents API? _however, hopes are getting lower and lower as time moves on_ _or is it?_) - hopefully something will happen in regards to this problem. @bpasero has given his latest feedback in this comment above: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/10121#issuecomment-345770248 I downvoted to provide feedback on a level of priority I think the feature should be given in the backlog. So if i want to float window on my other screen, I still need to open new window then open my file, i think it is too laborious to use. I can't get it to work (on 1.11.0-Insider). Any estimates when VS code could be capable to do this? But for me ergonomically very uncomfortable and tiring to a degree that makes me leaving it be again. This is only done when the shell does not support "bracketed paste mode". I'm trying to help with that using data from the past. 10 (creative edition) @Deltatiger The "app" is an OS-specific container that instantiates/orchestrates these processes. See the GPU acceleration section for more information. The community cannot contribute until such a plan is openly discussed. Please the issue to show your support. That's that. Well done, linking some unrelated to IDEs (or text editing in general) links to the VR hype articles in such respectable computer science / software engineering medias as Guardian and Bloomberg totally shows your point of view. Hey, yes that is a known workaround (like opening the project multiple times) and is stated above somewhere in the comments. "Ctrl + K then O" There should be an additional UI for "+1 to this feature" if the issue thread is considered a feature request. VSCode is a complex program, they cannot patch functionnalities on the core, or it would became a nightmare to maintain and improve ( just clone the repo to see what the hell is happening inside the beast ), My guesses (I may be wrong): can't vscode do the same with code tabs this way? I have little doubt that VS Code team must realize this is a - nuclear level issues - so obviously they have a major architectural flaw that they simply can't address. . privacy statement. Please tell me. @Krzysztof-Cieslak, you say old IDE's had a design problem that forced us to have multiple monitors, OK, I'll take that, I don't know enough on that topic to say that's right or wrong (and I was born in 1991 so I didn't really have a chance), but it doesn't matter how you see it, it's more productive to see 2 or more files at the same time than clicking tabs or using some key combinations to change the view, this is specially true when these files have a strong dependency. This approach would be greatly appreciated in VS Code. How can I navigate back to the last cursor position in Visual Studio Code? VSCode - Open terminals in a separate window powershell visual-studio-code terminal 18,420 Solution 1 Move terminals between windows It's now possible to move terminals between windows by detaching via Terminal: Detach Session in one and attaching to another with Terminal: Attach to Session. @TedYav That restriction has technical reasons behind it - see #2686 for more info & discussion. They are an incredible productivity tool that should not be sacrificed at the alter of mobility or hipster lifestyles. I want to be able to open files into a new window (for example to put on a different monitor or a different virtual workspace). Not having it is a deal breaker. I could envision having some way to track the windows once it's opened. Coming in and stating my own experience: I've successfully used VScode in the past to compile and debug a game engine project I contribute to, but since I can't do detached windows with VScode, i'm unfortunately sticking with CLion, which is slowly but surely taking on Visual Studio at large. I think 8 months are more than enough time to at least give us a hint on what to expect. I will have to agree with the comments above. In additional window we have to hide unnecessary UI parts but also disable updating other app areas on files change or shortcuts. Nice to see others wanting the same. Work around these issues by launching code with the --disable-gpu flag or by using the setting "terminal.integrated.gpuAcceleration": "off" to avoid using the canvas in the terminal. How to Open VS Code from the Terminal. I agree with the "let's not make this compete with Visual Studio" comment. Since VSCode is written with Electron "floating windows" is kinda hard to accomplish, but allowing to open the project twice would help a lot, but this doesn't seem to work either. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Also caching can be issue. This works by simulating arrow keystrokes, which may not work reliably for some shells or programs. The terminal view can be maximized by clicking the maximize panel size button with the upwards chevron icon. @Nepoxx You could always open a new issue with a title something like "Technical discussion for floating in-process windows" and link to this issue. Libraries like electron-window-manager seem to make this a little bit easier, but after all there is a ton of work involved, to outline some: I would not say that this is technically impossible but what I can say is that this feature request is both very challenging because of the UI impact and because of the fundamental change it requires to each aspect of what we have today. To continue innovating, and make VSCode a modern full-featured editor, this is a necessity. While they work, they also cause a system "invalid key" sound to play due to an issue in Chromium. This requires a bit of rearchitecting the internals of vscode, so let's be patient (or contribute). When dragging a tab outside of the window, it either displays a and doesn't let me drop, or, when dropped on top of a Windows Explorer window, it copies the file @CherryDT This issue is still open and marked as Backlog. Even my comment is meta because it does the same (more clutter) and shouldn't be required. To subscribe to this RSS feed, copy and paste this URL into your RSS reader. Terminals often have contrast issues due to some conflict with dark/light themes, ANSI colors or shells/programs running, and more. Basicaly, it creates base64 encoded string as URL for window: https://github.com/illBeRoy/ElectronScriptWindow/blob/master/src/index.js#L76 on load. Its a truly massive product. Obviously you can work around it by opening specific files in a separate (ctrl + shift + N) Visual Studio Code instance, but it's definitely something that should be addressed as soon as possible. Tearing off tabs into separate windows is __already possible__ , with some caveats/workarounds required. Beeing a longtime user of Visual Studio, notepad++, working for years with 3 (21 - 25 inch) monitors it is actually the one single feature that after a few hours using Visual Studio Code stops me using it. I don't see any reasonable discussion around possible implications of the different ways of implementing such feature. to perform the same as Ctrl+C. You can open your terminal in a few ways. If you have an idea though, let us know. I stated the same thing everyone else did in supporting this feature. How? Having the option to open the two versions in two windows would be a real saver. Like others have said, opening in a new window isn't what were asking for or wanting. Request: Please close this issue for comments. ;-). @mlewand this is no area where we expect a PR due to technical limitations. . Is it OK to ask the professor I am applying to for a recommendation letter? Currently I can stretch the windows across multiple monitors, but the position is reset back to the default on the next open. Open workspace in one window and project folder in the other. +1. The currently integrated terminal docked to the panel right now but this usage is narrowing the editor window and it is difficult to examine logs on the terminal. These ANSI colors are determined by the active color theme, but they can also be configured independently from the theme with the workbench.colorCustomizations setting. This is the last piece we are missing as others have said from a full move from other editors. Also there was some amount of discussion on Multi Window coding (original suggestion of Ctrl + K, O to open a new window), so I thought I would just clarify that part here for all the people looking for that feature. The keybindings for copy and paste follow platform standards: Copying is done automatically on selection when terminal.integrated.copyOnSelection is enabled. Excuse me for being so careless. It's expensive, it will make application maintenance harder, it will prevent users focusing code. Perhaps bade it upon that? eg. But I also think, maybe, it not a easy work for vscode developers. Everyone now telling the duplicate workspace stuff, but that's sure now known by everyone und doesn't need to be repeated so often. Would love to have it implemented. This feature really should be a high priority feature. "You can currently see 3 files, one vertical panel (debugger, git, search, explorer) and horizontal panel at the same time", nice try, but you know what I mean, I mean a maximized window with a CSS file in one monitor and a maximized window with HTML in another one that's far better than having a lot of uncomfortably panels in the same monitor. Finding a relevant comment from a team member is difficult given the 363 comments above. For people who suggest opening another window. +1 When applications running in the terminal turn on mouse events mode, such as Vim mouse mode, mouse interaction is sent to the application instead of the terminal. Well I think then the electron team can just say that the problem is in chrome. The problem is, these guys are not giving an answer and even if they have a good reason not to implement this, their silence tell us they just don't care about this request. I was just trying to help with a temporary workaround that I use while waiting for this feature. Thanks for contributing an answer to Stack Overflow! Window code in portrait - Tools on landscape, I'd love to see this feature coming anytime soon . Thanks. This is a serious deficiency with VSCode as an editor. I was just trying to help with a temporary workaround that I use while waiting for this feature. I only see this feature possible when we find a way to create windows that share the same memory to the "main" window so that this operation is lightweight. I was not aware of that yet and I am going to use this next week on a multi-monitor system to see how well that works. Would love to have this feature as well. For now I have to manually resize window to fit my two monitors (red line is edge of monitor) which is not comfortable. Shells are detected and presented in the terminal profiles dropdown. I, too would like to drag code tabs to desktop to edit in a new window. BTW using MacOS or Linux is not the only reason not to use VS, If you ever used VS, then you know how bloated it is. Links are activated by mousing over the link so an underline appears, then hold Ctrl/Cmd and click. Find the nvm initialization script and run which npm before it runs, which should print the path when you launch a new terminal. They seem to be dodging the question about it being a limitation of electron and whether or not they are actually ever going to be able to do it sadly. Should be on the roadmap. That is why I did not have any expectations about it. We made it! It would a great feature, if the performance doesn't go down because of it. To work around this, you have two options: The macOS default terminal uses Cmd+. There's no such thing as a "main" window in Xcode. It is really time consuming to click and resize a window to see the content. It's simple a case of MS wanting to integrate it with VS Code. Sorry! Additionally you don't need butter anymore, which makes life definitively cheaper. Dont forget we have VisualStudio Community, please consider to move some feature to VS plugin. For those who just want to open files in new windows and were lead to this page by Google, use the keyboard shortcut for "Open Active Files in New Window"; It is unfortunate that the issue author has the priorities so ass-backwards, but I can't believe nobody at Microsoft has seen this ticket at some point over the past year, recognized the immense value in being able to drag an editor tab from one window to another (your Visual Studio crowd has been doing this for decades) and made this happen by now. Obviously you can work around it by opening specific files in a separate (ctrl + shift + N) Visual Studio Code instance, but it's definitely something that should be addressed as soon as possible. Unfortunately it does not close the older tab which is expected for the floating window idea. @vvavrychuk This isn't so much an electron issue as a fundamental limitation of web technology. I know everybody didn't like being urged but, Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers. Why is sending so few tanks Ukraine considered significant? The downside is no drag and dropping tabs between them, but otherwise it works. This way I get more real estate while still keeping an eye on the terminal / output, which I believe is one of the main reasons for floating windows. Vscode is awesome and it will be more awesome with this fonctionality! 2 years since it was requested. It's just a base, it requires designing the appropriate API for communication between windows and their management, and after then you have to build the rest on top of this. Any plans when this will be added to a release-circle? What about https://www.npmjs.com/package/electron-window-manager ?? This works pretty nice for me :sweat_smile: Which means what exactly? Just adding my support to this. By talking about it here, we are only making it worse - see you on the other side of the force and have a good day! 3.) This should be done at the beginning, when you start writing this editor. My best guess is that it's difficult for them to create a new windows with the tab and have the tab keep it's state because of electron. @belst It still does allow multiple windows on the same workspace, which is an improvement on VS Code. 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