Vscode: Add commands to navigate tabs in MRU order without picker

[shanalikhan]

Im trying to execute the command to change the focus to last opened tab.
workbench.action.openNextRecentlyUsedEditorInGroup

But it opens the menu rather than showing the last tab.

[bpasero]

@shanalikhan this action is specifically only for using a picker for choosing the next editor. What you seem to want is actions to just navigate to the next tab in MRU order without having the picker UI.

[bpasero]

This is https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/15225

[shanalikhan]

My extension opens new tab / page which i want to hide.
workbench.action.nextEditorInGroup works for some scenario but doesnt work on mine.

First Scenario : ( works fine )
settings.json is only opened.
My extension create new page and add text and through this command i am switched to settings.json - works Fine !

Second Scenario : ( does not work )

settings.json is opened, 2nd file , say abc.txt is opened and switched current tab from settings.json to abc.txt , and when my extension create new page and when this command hits, it should remain in abc.txt but it goes to settings.json.

[jonhoo]

@bpasero I don't think #15225 is actually the same as this. That issue discussed cycling through the editors in the group in tab order, whereas if I understand correctly, what @shanalikhan was looking for was the equivalent of openNextRecentlyUsedEditorInGroup (i.e., MRU order). I'm facing the same issue myself at the moment, where I'd like a shortcut to swap quickly back and forth between two files. workbench.action.openNextRecentlyUsedEditorInGroup would do that, except for the fact that it also pops up the picker.

[jibbers42]

I'd like to propose two new actions for this purpose:

workbench.action.nextRecentlyUsedEditorInGroup
workbench.action.previousRecentlyUsedEditorInGroup

To be clear, these would use the same order as the existing open* versions

workbench.action.openNextRecentlyUsedEditorInGroup
workbench.action.openPreviousRecentlyUsedEditorInGroup

, but they would perform an instant tab switch, like

workbench.action.nextEditorInGroup
workbench.action.previousEditorInGroup

[iestynb]

Upvote! I'm looking for the equivalent of "Alt+W, 2" in Visual Studio (which switches to the most recently opened file... "Alt+W,3" goes to the next most recently accessed one, etc). I use this all day every day, literally every few seconds.

Currently I'm using workbench.action.openPreviousEditorFromHistory which is almost exactly what I want... except it has the undesired behaviour of reopening files that I have deliberately closed. If that could be disabled with a boolean setting then I would have exactly what I need (particularly since you can keep Ctrl held down and press Tab multiple times to step back further in the history, which is ideal).

Related: workbench.action.openPreviousRecentlyUsedEditorInGroup seems not to work. As near as I can tell it switches to a random editor... clearly it doesn't, but I can't spot the pattern!

[jonnypolite]

I too would love to be able to switch tabs in MRU order without having the picker show up. Every time I see the picker it just slows me down. I'm trying to get used to it, but if I could have the same tab switching behavior without the picker that would be ideal.

[shanalikhan]

any update on this?

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[bpasero]

Fyi https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/37366#issuecomment-566011854 resolves this request.