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VS Code Introduces Floating Windows Support - The Most Requested Feature Ever

piotrkarczmarz 3y ago
Floating windows feature has the most thumbs up (2.89k) in the entire VS Code history - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aissue+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aissue+sort... Official release announcement - https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_84#_floating-editor-windows https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_84#_floating-editor... Floating windows feature is available in the VS Code Insiders channel - https://code.visualstudio.com/insiders/ https://code.visualstudio.com/insiders/
0cf8612b2e1e 3y ago
I guess all of that telemetry finally justified the work.
xivusr 3y ago
Microsoft 365 could be rebranded as 180 at this point. What an exciting new direction this company has taken over the past 10 years.
WhereIsTheTruth 3y ago
One of the features I wish Sublime Text had, better tab/layout management with the mouse Currently it's painful to manage, even with Origami
jauntywundrkind 3y ago
This remains the #1 thing I want for neovim. Neovim works pretty well headless, but multiple clients all have to be the same screen size basically. There was some notions about called SmartUI, back in 2015, that we're looking at decoupling this. But never materialized. https://tarruda.github.io/articles/neovim-smart-ui-protocol/ https://tarruda.github.io/articles/neovim-smart-ui-protocol/
- _lvbh 3y ago
  Can’t you just open multiple terminal windows? Neovim is a CLI program. It shouldn’t have to deal with windows.
  - jauntywundrkind 3y ago
    Ideally I'd like to be able to have multiple editors open to the same session. Shared buffers (files), shared registers, but ability to have different views of the session too, in different shapes. Maybe I want a main editor view in one virtual desktop, but a different editor on the same session on the side of a screen showing off a bunch of documentation, to compare against. Or I'd like to be away from home & open a web editor, without changing the editor at home. Or maybe I want to let a friend attach their editor & have a shared session we can pair across. I think it's a mistake to bucket neovim as a terminal program. That is one modality you can use to access a headless program. But it's far from the only one. And the whole point of having a client server architecture, to me, screams not only about the decoupling, but also implies a >1 client capability. Neovim allows this, it's just not very good, since everyone's client has to share a row x column configuration.
theflyingelvis 3y ago
Now, if they’d just add support for virtualspace for us old visual studio users…
lolive 3y ago
As an Intellij user, i do not see the need for this. Nor can tell whether it is available in IntelliJ or not. Can anyone detail the common usages for this?
TowerTall 3y ago
The original issue on GitHub ask for that the toolpanes (terminal, Debug console, etc) can be opened in a floating window. What the upcoming vs code feature has implemented is that the code editor for a file can be opened in a new window. The announced feature doesn't actually address the original issue raised and is much less useful than the features the OP ask for. Personally it is rare that I need to display two documents in two seperate windows, but to have some of the tools in seperate windows. That I use all in the time in visual studio proper.

Floating windows feature has the most thumbs up (2.89k) in the entire VS Code history - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aissue+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aissue+sort... Official release announcement - https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_84#_floating-editor-windows https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_84#_floating-editor... Floating windows feature is available in the VS Code Insiders channel - https://code.visualstudio.com/insiders/ https://code.visualstudio.com/insiders/

0cf8612b2e1e 3y ago

I guess all of that telemetry finally justified the work.

xivusr 3y ago

Microsoft 365 could be rebranded as 180 at this point. What an exciting new direction this company has taken over the past 10 years.

WhereIsTheTruth 3y ago

One of the features I wish Sublime Text had, better tab/layout management with the mouse Currently it's painful to manage, even with Origami

jauntywundrkind 3y ago

This remains the #1 thing I want for neovim. Neovim works pretty well headless, but multiple clients all have to be the same screen size basically. There was some notions about called SmartUI, back in 2015, that we're looking at decoupling this. But never materialized. https://tarruda.github.io/articles/neovim-smart-ui-protocol/ https://tarruda.github.io/articles/neovim-smart-ui-protocol/

_lvbh 3y ago
Can’t you just open multiple terminal windows? Neovim is a CLI program. It shouldn’t have to deal with windows.
- jauntywundrkind 3y ago
  Ideally I'd like to be able to have multiple editors open to the same session. Shared buffers (files), shared registers, but ability to have different views of the session too, in different shapes. Maybe I want a main editor view in one virtual desktop, but a different editor on the same session on the side of a screen showing off a bunch of documentation, to compare against. Or I'd like to be away from home & open a web editor, without changing the editor at home. Or maybe I want to let a friend attach their editor & have a shared session we can pair across. I think it's a mistake to bucket neovim as a terminal program. That is one modality you can use to access a headless program. But it's far from the only one. And the whole point of having a client server architecture, to me, screams not only about the decoupling, but also implies a >1 client capability. Neovim allows this, it's just not very good, since everyone's client has to share a row x column configuration.

theflyingelvis 3y ago

Now, if they’d just add support for virtualspace for us old visual studio users…

lolive 3y ago

As an Intellij user, i do not see the need for this. Nor can tell whether it is available in IntelliJ or not. Can anyone detail the common usages for this?

TowerTall 3y ago

The original issue on GitHub ask for that the toolpanes (terminal, Debug console, etc) can be opened in a floating window. What the upcoming vs code feature has implemented is that the code editor for a file can be opened in a new window. The announced feature doesn't actually address the original issue raised and is much less useful than the features the OP ask for. Personally it is rare that I need to display two documents in two seperate windows, but to have some of the tools in seperate windows. That I use all in the time in visual studio proper.