I only asked if there are any estimates from people looking after this repo. @Rouche VSCode is implemented in Electron, which means each window is a separate chromium process, accompanied by some back-end processes as well. Additionally one monitor is definitely cheaper than two. In this article, you will learn about how to create a file with any file type extension in vs code using a terminal with commands. ;-). You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. - leaf_yakitori. Please implement this feature to float the windows (window detaching). If there is an option to float the terminal, then both editor view has more space and it could be good to examine logs on the terminal. This feature would perhaps require extension developers implement some interface if they want their extension windows to float. Now drag & drop an editor tab from your project window to the new window. They are also putting out a new grid feature. Well if I could work on my SPA efficiently and my web api backend in Visual Studio I wouldn't need VS Code either. Xcode allows for multiple windows for a project. 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. One downside of this is that colored text may sometimes lose some of its saturation. I know that it is OSS. Is there an estimation for when the top 3 features will have been implemented? While I express as much enthusiasm as anyone here about the prospect of multi-window, I am happy to wait as long as it takes. Like Youtube Mini Player? Or is it more about VSCode one project <-> one window design? While the terminal is capable of displaying true color, programs commonly use 8 ANSI colors (black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan and white) and bright variants of each. https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3527695/31317649-71a530b2-ac4d-11e7-9531-6fe2d4a2e967.gif, Support: How to make chocolate safe for Keidran? So the reference in the Iteration Plan #47369 is just a joke about getting a 4k monitor rather than a plan to support this? A file explorer? Enable Windows Subsystem for Linux on your Windows 10 machine. Voted up, this is the only thing that's missing moving from Sublime. that is how we feel. This thread was open 1 Year 6 Months and 4 Days ago . Edit: By bad, bpasero answered the thread a year ago, let's just hope the team will take this issue as the reference issue for the Explore UX for flexible workbench layout plan item on February 2018 iteration plan ! ((socket-guid)) --root-window ((root-window-guid)). I do not care if it's lightweight either. The best I can offer would be to resize the window so it covers both your screens and split the editor into two tiles along the middle between your monitors. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/10121#issuecomment-395718792, You can move tabs between windows but you cannot create a new window by dragging a tab out. Thanks VSCode Team (and whoever worked on this). I would love to see the ability to detach the console (and other parts of the editor) and push them across to a separate screen allowing me to get the full real estate of my main screen for writing and reading my code when I'm working somewhere with multiple screens/. Please see our roadmap for what we plan to work on in the next 6-12 months: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/Roadmap, Please see our roadmap for what we plan to work on in the next 6-12 months. How else should developers get info on what user base wants? See the attached gif below. 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! @bpasero has given his latest feedback in this comment above: #10121 (comment) Visual studio code VScode API visual-studio-code; Visual studio code VSSSH visual-studio-code google-cloud-platform ide; Visual studio code VSC visual-studio-code terminal; Visual studio code vscode . Dear community, let's try to help VSC team. Text in the terminal can be customized with the following settings: Powerline fonts are special patched fonts that contain additional characters that can be used in the terminal. You can learn more about configuring terminal shells in the terminal profiles article. The topic is no longer about what we want or why, but how we can implement it, so let's try to keep the conversation positive and focussed on how to help implement this feature. That is all I am asking for. Yeah, off course. I really hope this won't be implemented, focusing on a single window, streamlined, editing focused UX is a strong advantage of VSCode, not disadvantage. Sign in Otherwise it is an absolute pleasure to work with, and far superior to Sublime and others (in my opinion). 2 years since it was requested. We should remind ourselves that this is a free software ;). Condescending tone does not fix bugs. A definitive must have on split screen 1 portrait, 1 landscape. Ctrl + K, O, It's such a basic feature, I first thought the missing of the floating window was a bug :'). https://twitter.com/joaomoreno/status/1004303587755855872?s=19. Unfortunately it does not close the older tab which is expected for the floating window idea. FWIW, I use 4 monitors side-by-side. You signed in with another tab or window. -- It was the third thing I tried to do in VS Code (right after changing the theme to light, so that I could see the menus, and installing the mssql extensions). I'm not entirely sure the "this may prove to be too taxing on computers" argument is valid as of late considering most recent computers have much more system resources than previously. Adding my request for this feature as well. Each terminal has an entry with its name, icon, color, and group decoration (if any). First thing i noticed missing when switching. I typically would open e.g. Countless other software have done this, are doing it and will continue doing it so I'm not entirely sure what is actually stopping them from implementing one of the most requested features. be successful. Well occasionally send you account related emails. I might do some digging around later in the code to see if I could find a way to at least just have one workspace span multiple windows. Not really. I have been watching this issue for year + and still no movement on this. 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. @Krzysztof-Cieslak Floating panels are built to be entirely optional in Visual Studio (i.e. I don't see a value to dramatically increase complexity if the same functionality can be achieved by spawning a new process. But this will never give the same freedom as freely dragging mini specialized windows (say one for Terminal, one for git and one for say a second terminal). Read on to find out more about: There's a dedicated troubleshooting guide for these sorts of problems. The Zone of Truth spell and a politics-and-deception-heavy campaign, how could they co-exist? Isn't the "Duplicate Workspace in New Window" command added to the command pallette a couple of versions ago a better option? This is a free product, and Microsoft owes us nothing. @TedYav That restriction has technical reasons behind it - see #2686 for more info & discussion. 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. The actual APP could just be a "container" for multiple canvas that can be rearranged inside. Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience. Yes it is free. or mute the thread Yet you don't have an offline uninstaller for an 8GB installer! To use terminals in the editor area, there are several options: Create via the Create Terminal in Editor Area command. I will continue to share support for this feature with thumbs up and rare constructive comments. @napalm684 Good point, nevertheless I think this is not a problem in Electron (https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/10121#issuecomment-346088717), but with VSCode architecture itself (https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/10121#issuecomment-346290180). I recently, started using JetBrains tools as an alternative. @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. Now, edit the file in one window, it won't be reflected in the other window. @vvavrychuk by "single-process" I'm referring to the web context (sans workers) only. Already on GitHub? @bpasero @aeschli is this a feature that you'd like to get and review as a pull request? I'm just trying to help set expectations based on my observations of their past behavior and when this feature first would have appeared on their "user demand is high" radar. I think all it would need is a tab bar (for multiple code editor tabs) and the tab content.]. This is awsome app, and I recently move from Webstorm to vscode. @BentOnCoding I agree that the lack of this feature is incomprehensible, but as you said they chose a framework that is not completely suitable to building IDEs, so adding this feature would be a major effort and it looks like they are not willing to make it. This feature has been requested for years nowPlease implement it. That is for sure. Find the nvm initialization script and run which npm before it runs, which should print the path when you launch a new terminal. I do not think we can expect this feature anytime in the near feature. All you gave people was your claim, and they gave theirs. This works pretty nice for me :sweat_smile: Which means what exactly? Since it came out, Code hasn't had multi-monitor support, and I assumed that choice was made intentionally. Thank-you-thank-you-thank-you! Some comments seem to assume MS owes us something here not true. I know It's not the same as drag and drop but it should come in handy if you just need to move a few file to another window to make use of the second or third monitor. Activating a word link will search the workspace for the word, if there is a single result it will open, otherwise it will present the search results. @tavuntu The problem with commenting simply with +1 makes useless clutter and spams people who watches this issue with a useless notification. We continue to use VS 2017 - even with all of it's obvious fagility. Any help is appreciated. Just adding my support to this. Then I came and found this thread :-(. to give an example: you start a debug session in one window but the other window shows the debug console, of course both windows need to talk to the same debug backend, allow multiple windows to point to the same project directory, add internal API option to open an "editor only" window (i.e. How tabs are presented can be configured with the following settings: The text on each tab is determined by the following settings: By default, the title displays what the shell's detected process name. I hope that makes sense. @laserbeak I think the complications arise from having to handle window management across several operating systems. By leaving a , and keeping the discussion area clear for constructive discussion, such as: I quite like the implementation that VS had, where on dragging any part of the UI it could "snap" to part of the screen. Mindless +1 spam will definitely help your cause. The default terminal profile shell defaults to $SHELL on Linux and macOS and PowerShell on Windows. That is user base frustrated because they lack multiple monitor support. 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. My mistake. @kodipe Neat! If electron has a way to open, read, and write sockets, this approach might I'd say that undocking tabs (editors more specifically) is a _must have_ rather than _eventually_ type of task. Following this thread for long time and still not having it late march 2018 (almost 2 years) is such a pitty. I would love to be able to have more than one VS code window for a single folder/project and be able to work on more than one monitor. I am not sure why the delay? Can't drag tab out of workspace to move to new window, floting panels; undock panels and move them around, https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/milestone/8, Navigate through explorer by typing start of file/folder name, Add option to launch and debug external powershell.exe, Can't create new window by dragging a tab out of current window, Multi-file search results are very hard to skim and use, Explorer / search / debug / git / extensions. In that case, let's consider terminal in floating window. Will be watching this issue, please fix. This is a serious deficiency with VSCode as an editor. As a simple workaround you can use the command Duplicate Workspace in New Window (since version 1.24) to open the current folder/workspace in a second VS code window that can be moved to a separate monitor. I'm trying to move off JetBeans and this isn't an optional or nice-to-have feature. I cannot, however, consider it a serious contender for professional development without multi-screen support. 2017 2:38 a.m. schreef Luc Shelton notifications@github.com: @laserbeakhttps://github.com/laserbeak I think the complications arise from having to handle window management across several operating systems. Please do not try to recomend to use Vim, Emacs, Visual Studio Enerprise, Sharp Develop, Eclipse, Jetbrains or may be Notepad. If VS code could implement this, it would be the perfect editor!! An hour you ask the same question, and he replies, "there are a lot of turns needed to get there," and will say no more. For more information, please see our Besides, it's not always the code you keep watching. :). We do not host any of the videos or images on our servers. This is typically caused by driver/VM graphics issues and the same also happens in Chromium. All rights belong to their respective owners. I don't see any reasonable discussion around possible implications of the different ways of implementing such feature. For example, you might see a big multi-colored triangle instead of text. By default there is a warning when pasting multiple lines, which can be disabled with the terminal.integrated.enableMultiLinePasteWarning setting. @Nyconing VS Does not run on linux or mac. THis issue would likely receive a lot more upvotes if the original ask were phrased better. This feature is on the backlog, but it's ranked #14 when sorting feature requests by number of upvotes: The fact that Code is an IDE doesnt mean we need to port all terrible UX choices for VS like floating panels. Do peer-reviewers ignore details in complicated mathematical computations and theorems? Hopefully this feature gets prioritized soon. I really want this feature!! Do you honestly think the vscode team would merge something that changes their product at such a fundamental level when they're not directing it? 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. No no don't you run away when you are proven wrong! The experience has been close to Visual Studio and the extension Python Tools for Visual Studio, but still missing some of the nice to haves. For now, at least, Cmd-K o is good enough for me - opening a source file in a detached window. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, Scan this QR code to download the app now. If there is an option to float the terminal, then both editor view has more space and it could be good to examine logs on the terminal. Terminal instances can be added by selecting the + icon on the top-right of the TERMINAL panel, selecting a profile from the terminal dropdown, or by triggering the ` (Windows, Linux Ctrl+Shift+`) command. The downside is no drag and dropping tabs between them, but otherwise it works. As a simple workaround you can use the command Duplicate Workspace in New Window. Thanks. I will have to agree with the comments above. Hi everyone, I was thinking of making a VSCode extension and I was wondering if the extension API allows extensions to create overlays like the command palette in VSCode (the one that pops up when you do Ctrl + Shift + P). It's not really "much", but this is a feature available in other editors that's sorely missing. This feature really should be a high priority feature. It's such a basic feature, I first thought the missing of the floating window was a bug :'), @Aetherall I thought the same thing! https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/10121#issuecomment-348621220, and linking to this issue. Look at what @RoyTinker mentioned. https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/docs/api/frameless-window.md, @Trevinlc1997 There are various commands available to navigate around the terminal buffer: Command navigation is also available (see shell integration): Scrolling will happen instantaneously, but can be configured to animate over a short duration with the terminal.integrated.smoothScrolling setting. So getting back to topic: What can we do? It would be really great to have ability to drag tabs to different monitors making them new window. It's a bad idea to have multiple monitor support. I want it to spawn a new copy of VSCode. 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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. The last time I downloaded it was a couple of months ago and it's size was about 7 or 8 GB back then. And some one who has a good ways to solve it? This automatic injection can be disabled by setting terminal.integrated.shellIntegration.enabled to false. @Nyconing VS Does not run on linux or mac. If coders can't figure out how to toggle a feature on or off, perhaps they are using the wrong software. Would you not be confused? if you open the output panel it should focus the window where the output panel was opened in), probably the biggest challenge: all our services that currently live within one window (and that includes all extensions and the extension host) need to move out of the window into a shared backend that each window can talk to. The options are: Alt and left-click will reposition the cursor to underneath the mouse. The amount of scrollback kept is determined by the terminal.integrated.scrollback setting and defaults to 1000 lines. Please use to vote. How is it supposed to work? Request: Please close this issue for comments. In real world we need see much more than only left/right/bottom panel, this solution https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/10121#issuecomment-335013296 is great. 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! Is it OK to ask the professor I am applying to for a recommendation letter? It cripples the experience and productivity of daily work. 2 years since it was requested. 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