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Implement Google Chrome-like grouped tabs
Google Chrome Beta recently announced grouped tabs, which is pretty awesome.
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Having such a thing within VSCode will be very useful IMO.
Having it integrated with the search, where a group is automatically created once you open more than one search result, should help with the tab clutter it ensues. Same for Peek references, automatic grouping of files within the same folders... I see many possibilities for it.
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Seems very useful, I suggest allowing to group it by project / workspace as well, which would be really useful when working in linked projects (library project / host, monorepo projects, etc.)
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I'd love to see something like that and the ability to collapse a group of tabs. I often have a bunch of config files or templates that I need to keep open so that I don't have to look for them when I need them, but this eats up a lot of tab space.
Since #38889 was merged into this issue, I want to point out an important aspect of #38889 that is not covered here so far: #38889 was about automatic tab groups that were created using the file and folder structure.
The original feature request of #38889 was only about automatically grouping files in the same folder.
I think automatically grouping files by folder and file name could also be a useful option. For example opening a file with the same name but a different extension as an already opened file in the same folder would be grouped automatically.
It will be very valuable feature for me, and I hope for others too.
Great suggestion!
+1 I'm constantly using it on chrome, would definitely of much use on VSCode as well
Can't wait to see this implemented, very excited! Thank you to everyone who suggested this and is working on it!
Yes, I'd like this feature too. It could help manage my opened code files into active projects, so I can keep better track of what I'm working on for any given initiative.
+1 to this feature, for context-switching between sub-projects. For example, I'd like to easily switch between groups of Terraform modules that work together.
+1 I'm surprised it took so many years to add this to browsers. This is such a helpful feature. Really need this. Right now I'm using sublime text as my way to have another 'group'. And that's just ghetto.
Would be an amazing feature for working with Angular where you are working with groups of multiple related files
I don't like the Google Chrome style, please also allow grouping tabs in dropdowns(but yet the mouse scroll must be able to navigate through all of them).
FWIW, I've found a straightforward way to have 2 groups. If you drag a tab down until it snaps to the bottom pane, that pane becomes a new group. You can then add whatever files you want to that new group.
I've re-sized that bottom pane to come all the way up to the top pane, so I now effectively have 2 groups of code. When I click on Group 1, Group 2 automatically minimizes to the bottom, and when I click on Group 2, Group 2 automatically fills the space again.
I can apparently repeat this an unlimited number of times for an unlimited number of groups, obviously depending on your screen height.
The only downside I see if that the groups cannot be named. Good enough while we wait for a solution from MS, though! I hope this helps somebody.
I would love to see this happening, it would help a great deal with tab clutter.
