Open files always in a new tab

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I am using Visual Studio Code 1 3 1 with the newly introduced tabs   When I click on files  the first file will open in a tab  If I do not make any changes to this file  the second clicked file will open in the same tab   How can I avoid this and make Visual Studio Code always open a new tab

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Open in new Tab Solution    Open the command palette by  Cmd   Shift   K Open settings file by  Preferences  Open Settings  JSON  Under user setting  enable Tabs by   workbench editor showTabs   true

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For anyone who don t want to disabled Preview Mode   As I read whole of comments and I found what I preferred that is the shortcut key to pin the opened file from Quick Open Ctrl P or that s mean to keep the opened file to the editor  and yes also don t need to switch your hand to the mouse to double-click on files list   Thanks to  jontem and  MattLBeck   Call save command with Ctrl S    s on Mac  is the easiest way to reach what I preferred   And if you found out you do this to keep opened file to editor quite frequently  yes I preferred you should setting the option  workbench editor enablePreview   false or  workbench editor enablePreviewFromQuickOpen   false as others mentioned before

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If you want to open a file permanently from  Go To File       P   press  right arrow  instead of return   This also keeps the Go To File    search bar open so you can quickly open multiple files

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for me  shift   enter did the trick

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Actually  VSCode shows you the preview of a file     You can disable the preview with this    workbench editor enablePreview   false       Basically just add these two settings and you re good to go

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One simple solution is  instead of making changes in settings of vscode  whenever you open a file through a reference you will see that the file is in preview mode the name of file is in italic  and in the sidebar you will see that same preview file in focus just double tap it and it will be pinned on the tab so that it wont get replaced by another file in preview mode

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Watch for filenames in italic   Note that  the file name on the tab is formatted in italic if it has been opened in Preview Mode       Quickly take a file out of Preview Mode   To keep the file always available in VSCode editor  that is  to take it out of Preview Mode into normal mode   you can double-click on the tab  Then  you will notice the name becomes non-italic       Feature or bug    I believe Preview Mode is helpful especially when you have limited screen space and need to check many files

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When you  single- click a file in the left sidebar s file browser or open it from the quick open menu  Ctrl-P  type the file name  Enter   Visual Studio Code opens it in what s called  Preview Mode   which allows you to quickly view files   Preview Mode tabs are not kept open  As soon as you go to open another file from the sidebar  the existing Preview Mode tab  if one exists  is used  You can determine if a tab is in Preview Mode  by looking at its title in the tab bar  If the title is italic  the tab is in preview mode   To open a file for editing  i e  don t open in Preview Mode   double-click on the file in the sidebar  or single-click it in the sidebar then double click the title of its Preview Mode tab   If you want to disable Preview Mode all together  you can do so by setting  workbench editor enablePreview   false in your settings file  You can also use the  workbench editor enablePreviewFromQuickOpen  option to disable it only from the quick open menu   Before you can disable Preview Mode  you ll need to open your Settings File   Pro Tip  You can use the Command Palette shortcut Ctrl Shift P  to open your settings file  just enter  Preferences  Open User Settings    Once you ve opened your settings file  your settings file should be located on the right   add the  workbench editor enablePreview  property  and set its value to false   You can learn more about Visual Studio Code s  Preview Mode   here

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I came up with the same problem  and open setting json file  add the following    workbench editor enablePreview   false

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This is not a new answer  It is just showing how to do it via UI  Open settings via File   gt  Preference   gt  Settings  The most upvoted answer is the correct choice  Then in search field type Preview  After that select Workbench and look for Enable preview options  Uncheck the boxes

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you need edit setting json file    settings json  located at  Windows  APPDATA  Code User settings json macOS  HOME Library Application Support Code User settings json Linux  HOME  config Code User settings json                        workbench editor showTabs   true             workbench editor enablePreview   false

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Use workbench editor enablePreview  false to disable Preview mode completely    Use workbench editor enablePreviewFromQuickOpen  false to disable Preview mode for the files open from quick open menu

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As hktang above indicates   one Click opens the file in preview mode  header text in italics   Double click the same file  it goes out of preview-mode  header text changes from italic to normal font   I think this is a  comprimise  feature allowing users   to  navigate  both worlds  preview and none-preview      All you do is click the file to open it in the right panel     Then immediately double click it to keep it there  Or - just treble click  File opens in none preview mode    HTH Paul S

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This is so confusing  All developers I asked didn t appreciate this default behavior    I use cmd   P to open project files

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You can do it via GUI    Search for preview    uncheck the options Enable Preview and Enable Preview from Quick Open

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Actually  VSCode shows you the preview of a file when you open it  If you want to open files in a new tab  just disable the preview with this setting  paste this in the settings json file     workbench editor enablePreview   false         you can take it one step further and use this setting    workbench startupEditor    newUntitledFile         It will open your VSCode editor with a blank new untitled file to quickly get started

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If you have opened a file in preview mode and want to open new file in another tab  For Mac  use cmd   p - gt  find the file and alt   enter

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If you don t want to disable preview mode you can explicitly tell vscode to keep a specific tab open  As mentioned above a tab heading with italic text is in preview mode   To get a tab out of preview mode you can either right click on the tab and choose keep open or use the shortcut cmd   k enter that is mapped to the command workbench action keepEditor   Furthermore  double-clicking on a tab also gets it out of preview mode  verified in vscode 1 44 0

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In my case  I also had to set workbench editor showTabs property to true  in addition to workbench editor enablePreview   I m not sure how it got changed to false  Maybe  I ve accidentally set it to false using some shortcut

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Essentially  there are three settings that one has to update  Preference    settings     workbench editor enablePreview  set this to globally enable or disable preview editors  workbench editor enablePreviewFromQuickOpen  set this to enable or disable preview editors when opened from Quick Open workbench editor showTabs  finally one will need to set this otherwise  there will be no tabs displayed and you will just be wondering why setting unsetting the above two did not work

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Simple and Best way is whenever you open new file it is in preview mode  so simply press the CTRL   K and  then press ENTER then you done with preview mode   Now this file will remain always open until you closed it that s what you need to do

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enabling using GUI   go to Code - gt  Preferences - gt  Settings - gt  User - gt  Window - gt  New Window  here Open Files In New Window under drop down list select  on  that s it   my VS Code version 1 38 1

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Settings -  Workbench -  Editor Management -  Enable Preview

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Menu File   Preferences   User Settings  add this line  workbench editor enablePreviewFromQuickOpen   false

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For 2020    easy as pie  tap preferences  eg  apple-comma on a Mac   they added it right there   Turn  quot off quot  for normal behavior   IE  to avoid the  quot automatic closing quot  behavior

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For those who using Windows OS   Press Ctrl   Shift   P Select Preferences  Open Settings  JSON  from the list Select all and Paste this    quot workbench editor enablePreview quot   false    That s it now it will open in a new tab instead of replacing on the existing one  For reference look at the screenshot below

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