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[nwallin]

> Visual studio proper is a 100% circus for me now. I can power through it, but I lose tabs in about 15 seconds after opening them.

I used to be the same way but then I discovered Visual Studio's vertical tab option. Tabs are displayed vertically on the left side of the editor pane. The filenames are all aligned so it's actually possible to visually scan them. You can group them by project and color code them by file type.

Tabs are unusable otherwise. For me at least.

[speakspokespok → nwallin]

My Google Fu is pretty good and I cannot find how to do this. I love vertical tabs in Firefox and never considered doing this in VSCode.

How!?

edit: on linux at least the process linked below doesn't work...

https://domysee.com/blogposts/vscode-vertical-tabs

[nwallin → speakspokespok]

I was talking about Visual Studio proper, not VSCode.

[jahewson → speakspokespok]

VSCode has something similar to vertical tabs called “Open Editors”

[huntoa → speakspokespok]

It does work for me on linux, v1.80.1. But it doesn't seem possible to put the sidebars next to each other: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/177812

[bob1029 → nwallin]

Thank you. I just tried this out and it immediately felt like a dagger being removed from my back.

I can instantly see my new pattern is solution explorer on the right, vertical tabs on the left.

I can probably go back to one 1440p monitor again. I was abusing multiple monitors just to keep tabs pinned in physical space...

[jimktrains2 → nwallin]

I use the tab tree extension in Firefox for the same reason. Vertical tabs have only minor usefulness anymore for me.

[heavenlyblue → nwallin]

You don't need tabs if navigation between files is done properly. For example Bookmarks is massively stronger proposition than tabs.

[kazinator → nwallin]

There are browser extensions to do that with browser tabs. I use Sideberry.