But anyway, if the feature is well done that doesn't require extension developers to care anything more,,,,,,that would be gleit. Any help is appreciated. The lack of this feature is a huge issue for those with multiple monitors (basically everyone who works with code). The problem here is that none of the finds work properly as it doesn't have any information about the actual "workspace" it came from. Hes a core VSCode team member. @bpasero "removed from backlog" -- any comment? Apps that support multiple monitors aren't at all clunky for doing so. I'm confident this is the design decision behind it but I'd be interesting to know otherwise. You can learn more about configuring terminal shells in the terminal profiles article. :). terminal.integrated.fontSize: Changes the font size of text in the terminal. Some features have taken 2 years from when they reached prominence to when they shipped. Toggle some bits and get an actual square. This way you could create a socket or bus of communication between windows it's more productive to see 2 or more files at the same time, You can currently see 3 files, one vertical panel (debugger, git, search, explorer) and horizontal panel at the same time, @D1no, This behavior can be changed using the terminal.integrated.splitCwd setting: There are also extensions available that give more options such as Terminal Here. add hooks for all windows on the same project directory to signal and listen+react on a few UI events: editor tab selected (activity bar explorer updates to point to the file), editor tab closed (maybe just set explorer to "no tab selected", selecting last tab might be hard to coordinate), on vertical screen: IDE's main window with editor, toolbars and (eventually) vertical splitting, on laptop screen: project's file explorer / outline, terminal / test dashboard / debug dashboard, do the coding, or anything whatever I can do, Main workspace handles event, and shows my file where tests was failed. Ill try.. @CHN-STUDENT I think people are giving :-1: votes because they agree that we need it (this thread has 270 comments and is the most :+1: voted issue). Don't double post please. With a little luck, It could be a very simple change in the VSCode main window. A template could be named, for example, "Panel only" (it would had only Problems, Output, Debug console, Terminal). Notice how there are no gaps between cells thanks to the custom glyphs: This feature can be disabled by setting "terminal.integrated.customGlyphs": false. Thanks for the suggestions and discussion. The minimum contrast ratio feature can cause colors to not be displayed as expected. It is a pity that this seemingly has no high priority. I can get all my colleagues to reply if you want. Alternatively you can take your zero dollars and spend it elsewhere. If your goal is to be able to freely resize and move around e.g. @Penagwin Likewise, but given I don't know what the technical reasoning is for not being able to implement it, I am also going to be polite and reserve judgement and wait patiently like everyone else. How is it supposed to work? The split pane functionality is nice but not the same. I'm starting to need this more as the projects get bigger. I hit this limitation a couple of times a day, it's a pretty big missing feature for me. VS Code's terminal renders some of the Powerline symbols without needing to configure a font, but if more glyphs are desired, configure a Powerline font with the font family setting. Very disappointed to find this feature isn't supported. Even my comment is meta because it does the same (more clutter) and shouldn't be required. "Ctrl + K then O" This is a serious deficiency with VSCode as an editor. which means each window is a separate chromium process, accompanied by some The default icon and its color, which will be used if not defined in a profile, can be configured with the terminal.integrated.tabs.defaultIcon and terminal.integrated.tabs.defaultColor settings. I suggest floating windows option for: This way we could take advantage of large screen space and / or multi monitors. As others have mentioned, no one can really begin work a feature as significant as this until there is some assurance that the work will be accepted. This is very important. Well occasionally send you account related emails. @Krzysztof-Cieslak youre joking right? @vossad01 You are right I was confused for a sec, because I came from the closed issue #10147 where it said "Already addressed by #10121" and I took "addressed" as "solved". @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. TIL, dragging tabs onto another vscode window opens the file on that window too. We are not affiliated with GitHub, Inc. or with any developers who use GitHub for their projects. That said, this is ONE of the big reasons I can't use VSCode for debugging. You are receiving this because you commented. This feature is overdue and critical for productivity with multiple monitors, how many replies do you need to add this feature to scope? Not really. For example, "'Fira Code', monospace" will configure Fira Code as the primary font and monospace as the fallback when it lacks glyphs. Tearing the tab out is the behavior I want (the same way it works in Chrome browser). I don't know any developer who only codes on one monitor, and having the ability to drag a tab to a new window for side-by-side use is just too useful of a feature to not have. is bound to "Open Active File in New Window". Yet you don't have an offline uninstaller for an 8GB installer! Sure you can disable those tools and stuff, but when working in a large team, it always happens someone commits vscode settings folder (even if it's gitignored - don't ask me how this happens). Select WSL Bash (NOT Git Bash) from the options. This means that the configured font does not need to support these characters as well as having the characters draw pixel perfect and stretch to the size of the entire cell. @patrys "you are free to contribute a pull request that implements at least some of the required changes to get this working". The default terminal profile shell defaults to $SHELL on Linux and macOS and PowerShell on Windows. Privacy Policy. Sometimes this detection doesn't work and requires manual intervention, setting terminal.integrated.gpuAcceleration to "dom" typically resolves rendering-related problems like these at the cost of performance. So i don't like see output info on my code tad. Look at what @RoyTinker mentioned. @ldexterldesign Have you tried running it by opening the command palette (+SHIFT+P) and typing Duplicate Workspace in New Window? Its hard to believe that its been 2 years and there has been so little progress on this. Excuse me for being so careless. Please tell me. You've paid nothing for it. Because in any other open source project like this, we already would have an answer if and when this get implemented and if not, why. Runtime profiling for .NET, SQL Server tools, a massive test management system, Azure tools (MSs cloud), built-in task/PR/issue tracking to recall a few off the top of my head. This would also allow me to better manage and work whilst on the move where I'd only have my main screen available to work from, like on a train or at customer sites. . An example of this is the GitLens extension detecting Git branch links. So Vote for feature . This is quite unintuitive when comparing to other IDEs. Move between open windows or when dragged to desktop will open a new window for that tab. This requires a bit of rearchitecting the internals of vscode, so let's be patient (or contribute). It's possible to open additional BrowserWindow instance but it require HTML file on load. Hi, I hope you'll aim for releasing this feature step by step and you won't sit on plans. Any help is appreciated. Once your terminal is open, you can open VS Code from it by typing $ code . I know everybody didn't like being urged but, To disable this feature, you can set: See the minimum contrast ratio section for more information. These will open the file in a new editor tab and support common line/column formats such as file:1:2, file:line 1, column 2. Sharing single workspace processes across multi-window opened files. Moving a terminal into its own group can be done with the Terminal: Unsplit Terminal command through the Command Palette or in the right-click context menu. That's that. 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! I strongly support the request of this feature. This was already talked about in this very thread. This feature would perhaps require extension developers implement some interface if they want their extension windows to float. Well if I could work on my SPA efficiently and my web api backend in Visual Studio I wouldn't need VS Code either. Yes on the small scale of an application it may be as easy as this However, I still don't see in this whole thread one link to the research, study, paper showing productivity gain of using multiple screens for text editing. At least it would be a start. I used Visual Studio as my primary editor for about 9 years, and then switched to VS Code after moving to a front-end-only project team. "104 more votes to make it to the top 10" as of October 25, 2017. Irrelevant https://www.npmjs.com/package/electron-window-manager. (electron = chromium + APIs to access underlying OS features), What if you could init vscode in some mode, "extension mode", for example, @Deltatiger Before that, nobody wanted or even knew about floating windows. Like others who mentioned it in this thread, multi-monitor coding kinda requires detachables. It was the Language Server Protocol that attracted me to VSCode in the first place. There is a technical reason why this feature is not making a lot of progress: We are using the Electron framework as cross platform UI framework which is based on Chrome underneath. I don't mind opening vscode to edit ~/.bash_profile because I don't have to wait for 4 minutes like I might with Visual Studio or WebStorm. This can be disabled with terminal.integrated.enableBell and the duration can be configured with terminal.integrated.bellDuration. Only works with files; not on terminal windows. +1 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. @inarius Sure, although that has been discussed above already (see my "20% effort/80% benefit" comment). Each terminal has an entry with its name, icon, color, and group decoration (if any). Sorry! Multi Monitor support is by far not the only reason for wanting this feature. VS Code will automatically detect most standard shells that can then be configured as the default. Got tired of adjusting the problems/output/terminal window up and down. 87 7. the terminal or the output (as described in by the OP), this does not solve anything. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. No no don't you run away when you are proven wrong! I don't know how Electron memory is working but I believe that if we load all application in second window, then memory usage of VSC will dramatically increase. This approach means multiple monitors are easily supported. @Hypernut I totally agree. Do you have a reference that says it is supposed to be implemented in 1.11? https://www.npmjs.com/package/electron-window-manager, https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/10121#issuecomment-334327742, https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AD90FFy4E1Ra3EKfLfwh026vvezYp9FJks5spCT2gaJpZM4JckZO, https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc%20label%3Afeature-request, https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3527695/31317649-71a530b2-ac4d-11e7-9531-6fe2d4a2e967.gif, https://gearburn.com/2016/06/space-vr-app-turns-the-htc-vive-oculus-rift-into-a-productivity-hub/, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-16/how-working-in-vr-could-make-you-more-productive, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/24/andreessen-horowitz-london-virtual-reality-startup-improbable, https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/2686#issuecomment, https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/Roadmap, https://hackernoon.com/using-a-react-16-portal-to-do-something-cool-2a2d627b0202, https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/10121#issuecomment-348621220, https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAqQmoLrUY4l5H5xwroWCytBbgT2LIL_ks5s8HIqgaJpZM4JckZO. What about https://www.npmjs.com/package/electron-window-manager ?? Below PowerShell and WSL terminals are stacked in an editor group to the right of a group of file editors. Or just thumbs up main post enough? - leaf_yakitori. I hope we can quit discussing what obligations this tool has to implement certain features. I'm sure this issue is on the team's radar (it is the number one requested feature). I looked through the documentation but couldn't figure out which one to use. Tearing off tabs into separate windows is __already possible__ , with some caveats/workarounds required. How is this not a feature yet, it's the only feature that stops me from using VS Code exclusively.. @bpasero Sorry for n00b question: could nativeWindowOpen help to solve the problem? -1. So? From my understanding, the team would have to change lot of the infrastructure to make this work. Every time I update my lovely vscode I try to detach a tab and it does not work! If VS code could implement this, it would be the perfect editor!! Version 1.74 is now available! This is the last thing stopping me from fully switching to VSCode. Please first point to a study showing that not having multiple monitor support improves productivity or rather is a better choice. That's quite a clever way of doing it. Its really a showstopper for this otherwise great editor. The VSCode Team has taken knowledge of the demand for this feature, and the problem will be easier to handle when some other features will be implemented, so in order to prevent a 500m scrolling of explanations / discussions, they rather not say anything at all. To use terminals in the editor area, there are several options: Create via the Create Terminal in Editor Area command. In every IntelliJ product, every view has a cog icon which has following options: Without this feature, developers get in the following cycle which takes at least 20% of developer's time! It's sometimes really nice to edit a JS widget file there, with the corresponding HTML and CSS files in a maximized split pane on an adjacent monitor. 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. I am surprised to see that this still hasn't been added. It feels insane to be stuck on just 1 monitor for code editing, especially when I'm working on several files simultaneously. There is a Terminal: Select All command, which is bound to Cmd+A on macOS, but does not have a default keybinding on Windows and Linux as it may conflict with shell hotkeys. In child Workspace terminal tab I can start yarn test --watch, But I see this just a loading a child session of Visual Studio Code but not fully loaded vscode, but a simplified and lighter variant of load Hope this should not take much resources, Also modules on the VSCode should communicate through some middleware, that can easily connect many instances between each other, so in child Workspace window we can see problem from ESLint for example, Maybe this "brainstorm" will be helpful for someone, hope so :). created a UNIX socket id to communicate with. If no text is selected in the active editor, the entire line that the cursor is on will run in the terminal. to your account. Or is it more about VSCode one project <-> one window design? Hmm, I don't appear to have this functionality in latest macOS - does it need to be enabled? @MangelMaxime Have a question about this project? That's easy part. It's fundamental to multi-monitor coding. Which would be awesome if this was built in. 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