We have an issue on our UX backlog ( #1133) to improve workspace management (managing open files, history etc) which this would be a piece of. We can add a file picker for working files, but it would be interesting to hear if people can be convinced to use Ctrl+Tab as it is today and learn what the issues are. The management happens naturally while you navigate between files. The advantage of this model is that you do not have to manage layouts and tabs at all. I am not really looking at the number of files in there, I am only interested in the Top 5 ones at max. So when I bring up Ctrl+Tab it will typically show me those files I was in last. Our minds are rather thinking about the chronological order of which file we edited last. We found that for us it does not matter that much which file you had open or closed. Since we do not have tabs, we do not add multiple files into these sections and you can also not have empty sections (which is a separate UX discussion).Ĭoming back to Ctrl+Tab: We in the team have always worked without tabs from day one and actually we did not even have the working files view for a long time and in fact not so many people in the team are using it.
Today you can open up to 3 editors side by side in VS Code and thus we do have sections. I think having tabs or not is independent from having sections.