Vscode: Implement Google Chrome-like grouped tabs

[dutzi]

Google Chrome Beta recently announced grouped tabs, which is pretty awesome.

Here's the gist:

Having such a thing within VSCode will be very useful IMO.

Having it integrated with the search, where a group is automatically created once you open more than one search result, should help with the tab clutter it ensues. Same for Peek references, automatic grouping of files within the same folders... I see many possibilities for it.

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[yoav-lavi]

Seems very useful, I suggest allowing to group it by project / workspace as well, which would be really useful when working in linked projects (library project / host, monorepo projects, etc.)

[or313]

Sounds really good! great suggestion

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[lucastrvsn]

I was needing this right now!

Great suggestion

[aayushmau5]

There you go. Your 20 upvotes. This is a good feature request.

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[kh]

I'd love to see something like that and the ability to collapse a group of tabs.
I often have a bunch of config files or templates that I need to keep open so that I don't have to look for them when I need them, but this eats up a lot of tab space.

[jonas-k]

Since #38889 was merged into this issue, I want to point out an important aspect of #38889 that is not covered here so far:

38889 was about automatic tab groups that were created using the file and folder structure.

The original feature request of #38889 was only about automatically grouping files in the same folder.

I think automatically grouping files by folder and file name could also be a useful option. For example opening a file with the same name but a different extension as an already opened file in the same folder would be grouped automatically.