VS Code drag tab to new window

Question

Instead of splitting windows, is it possible to drag the tabs to a new window in Visual Studio Code like Sublime, PHPstorm or Chrome?

When I drag a tab onto the desktop, it will copy the file.

Answer 1

This is a very highly upvoted issue request in Github for Floating Windows.

Until they support it, you can try the following workarounds:

1. Duplicate Workspace in New Window ^[1]

The Duplicate Workspace in new Window Command was added in v1.24 (May 2018) to sort of address this.

1. Open up Keyboard Shortcuts Ctrl + K, Ctrl + S
2. Map workbench.action.duplicateWorkspaceInNewWindow to Ctrl + Shift + N or whatever you'd like

2. Open Active File in New Window ^[2]

Rather than manually open a new window and dragging the file, you can do it all with a single command.

1. Open Active File in New Window Ctrl + K, O

3. New Window with Same File ^[3]

As AllenBooTung also pointed out, you can open/drag any file in a separate blank instance.

1. Open New Window Ctrl + Shift + N
2. Drag tab into new window

4. Open Workspace and Folder Simultaneously ^[4]

VS Code will not allow you to open the same folder in two different instances, but you can use Workspaces to open the same directory of files in a side by side instance.

1. Open Folder Ctrl + K,Ctrl + O
2. Save Current Project As a Workspace
3. Open Folder Ctrl + K,Ctrl + O

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For any workaround, also consider setting setting up auto save so the documents are kept in sync by updating the files.autoSave setting to afterDelay, onFocusChange, or onWindowChange

Answer 2

■New Window with Same File

1. Press CTRL+SHIFT+N to create a default new window.

2. Drag the tab into this new window.

■Command Line

1. Add C:\Users\Allen\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code to system path.

2. Type this command in terminal.

PS D:\xampp\htdocs\bi>code vendor/bin/../composer/autoload_files.php -n

■AutoHotKey

1. Compile this ahk script and execute it.

　

+!v::
clipboardstr := Clipboard
run, code %clipboardstr% -n
return

2. Right click on the tab and then press shift+ alt+ c in vscode can copy file path to clipboard.

3. shift+ alt+ v open this page to new window.

Answer 3

This has been added in the newest update (1.85.x)

Just drag the tab into another screen (or outside vs code) it will open in as a new window