Allow to select multiple tabs for operations such as move / compare

[juhannc]

Whenever I'm reordering my tabs and moving them between the panes, I have to select each tab individually.
It would be awesome, if I could select multiple tabs at once to reorder them or move them between panes.
Basically similar to the behavior of every modern browser, where Shift + click selects a range of tabs or Ctrl + click for selected individual tabs.

[bpasero]

Yeah I was waiting for this feature request, I think it would even be cool to allow to select multiple tabs and allow to perform actions on all of them from the context menu.

[juhannc]

Yeah I was waiting for this feature request, I think it would even be cool to allow to select multiple tabs and allow to perform actions on all of them from the context menu.

I didn't even think about all the other possible actions, good catch!

[NatoBoram]

In Firefox, I often Shift+Click to select multiple tabs and Ctrl+W to close them after some intense Googling and StackOverflowing. I find myself doing this in VSCode multiple times per day even though it doesn't do anything.

[ccarner]

In Firefox, I often Shift+Click to select multiple tabs and Ctrl+W to close them after some intense Googling and StackOverflowing. I find myself doing this in VSCode multiple times per day even though it doesn't do anything.

I did this just before, for the 100th time today haha. I'd love this change :)

[Binly42]

Another point similar to modern browsers: Allow to move a whole group even with too many tabs.

If there are too many tabs in a group, I cannot drag the group because there is no available area upon where the "mouse arrow cursor" would change to be a "hand cursor" ......

(Workaround: go into the Zen mode, where always only the active tab would be displayed in each group, and so that we can drag the rest area~)

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Excuse me If this should be a new issue, but I guess this is not a big issue and is also relative to "modern browser feature"...

Since in my opinion, there should just might be somewhat relationship between:

• operations on multiple tabs (even of one more groups?)
• operations on all tabs of a group (some of which are existed features)

[Tyriar]

I actually tried to do this a few times over the weekend instinctively as a way to close many editors at a time as the alternative is to hit ctrl+w 20 times, and ctrl+shift+t to undo when I closed too many.

[Kenobi-the-2nd]

Yes, I have been looking for this feature for some time. It would be very helpful for organizational purposes, especially since I typically work in multiple languages at once.

[RocketRace]

This is definitely useful in e.g. large codebases where a refactoring may touch dozens of files at once. I keep stumbling over my muscle memory! 😄

[stronglify13]

Wait for this!! :D

[RobinDavidss0n]

Any updates?

[starball5]

Is this implemented already? I can hold the alt key, click into the unoccupied space in an editor group's tab strip, and then drag and drop the tabs to other editor groups. It just doesn't seem to currently support creating new editor groups while dragging- only moving all tabs from one editor group into another.

Related on Stack Overflow: How can I drag and drop editor groups to customize the layout in VS Code?

[narcis-fv]

Same here, would like to select multiple tabs, right click and click 'close others'

[pentago]

Any chance we can get this basic thing?

[starball5]

@pentago (tongue in cheek) any chance you can PR a draft implementation of this "basic" thing?

[pentago]

@starball5 not really. Im not saying it's a basic to code rather basic UX thing to have in tabbed windows, I'm sure you'll agree.

Also, this feature was present before, I remember it worked some years ago, not sure what happened to it.

[mkumarpcln]

+1, would be great to have!

[sundeep-ravella]

I will work on this

[Tyriar]

@sundeep-ravella I suspect this issue will be too complex for an external contribution.

[benibenj]

Tabs multi select is now supported in our insiders build. Give it a try and let us know what you think.

You can get VSCode Insiders here: https://code.visualstudio.com/insiders/

[pentago]

Just tested it, selection and movement works great. Thank you!