Visual Studio Code open tab in new window

Question

I am trying to open a tab in a new window in Visual Studio Code so I can move it to another screen  If I drag the tab the other screen  a file is created  Is there a shortcut to open a tab in a new Visual Studio Code window so I can move it to another screen

User · Answer

When I want to split the screens I usually do one of the following:

open new window with: Ctrl+Shift+N
and after that I drag the current file I want to the new window.
on the File explorer - I hit Ctrl+Enter on the file I want - and then this file and the other file open together in the same screen but in split mode, so you can see the two files together. If the screen is wide enough this is not a bad solution at all that you can get used to.

User · Answer

If you are using the excellent VSCode for Mac  2020 simply tap Apple-Shift-N  as in  quot new window quot   Drag whatever you want there

User · Answer

With Visual Studio 1 43  Q1 2020   the Ctrl K then O keyboard shortcut will work for a file   See issue 89989      It should be possible to e g  invoke the  Open Active File in New Window  command and open that file into an empty workspace in the web

User · Answer

On Windows and Linux  press Ctrl K  then release the keys and press O  the letter O  not Zero    On macOS  press command K  then O  without holding command    This will open the active file tab in a new window instance

User · Answer

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    Open up Keyboard Shortcuts Ctrl   K  Ctrl   S 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    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    Open New Window Ctrl   Shift   N 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      Open Folder Ctrl   K Ctrl   O Save Current Project As a Workspace Open Folder Ctrl   K Ctrl   O     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

User · Answer

You can also hit Win Shift  n   N being the position the app is in the taskbar  Eg if its pinned as the first app hit WIn Shift 1 and windows will open a new instance  This works for all applications  I agree tho all of these workarounds shouldn t be necessary  Pretty much every other app can drag tabs out as a window I can t think of anything I used that doesn t and VSCode should be implementing ubiquitous functions we expect to be there

User · Answer

Just an update  Feb 1  2019  cmd shift n on Mac now opens a new window where you can drag over tabs   I didn t find that out until I when through KyleMit s response and saw his key mapping suggestion was already mapped to the correct action

[visual-studio-code] Visual Studio Code open tab in new window

Examples related to visual-studio-code