Issue #151 (Drag To Open Window)03/12/25
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As you probably know, VS Code allows you to drag your editors (tabs) out of your main window into a new window. You can do this by simply dragging an editor outside the current window and dropping it onto an empty area.
And of course, you can drag any editor back into the main window or into any other VS Code window you have open.
If for some reason you want this functionality disabled, you can do this by adjusting the setting Drag To Open Window.
For example, maybe you want to be able to rearrange tabs (editors) by dragging them around but don't want to risk dropping one outside the current window. You might also want to drag the current window into some other application, which effectively drags the local file location in text format into the new window.
Without that setting disabled, the drag and drop you see in the above GIF would open a new window instead of dropping the file location as text.
And one last thing about editor windows, there are various commands you can execute:
- View: Copy Editor into New Window
- View: Move Editor into New Window
- View: Copy Editor Group into New Window
- View: Move Editor Group into New Window
- View: New Empty Editor Window
The first two are available from the right-click menu for an editor and all of them can be executed from the Command Palette.
Now on to this week's hand-picked links!
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VS Code Tools
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Ariana — A VS Code extension and CLI tool to understand what your JS, TS, and Python code does when it runs in development, boasting to be faster than a traditional debugger or using print() or console.log().
Nuxt DX Tools — A VS Code extension designed to enhance the developer experience for Nuxt projects by providing tools for auto-locating and navigating to auto-imported components, functions, routes, and more.
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Heroku for VS Code — An official VS Code extension to enable you to deploy, manage, and monitor your Heroku apps without leaving your editor. See announcement post in the articles section below.
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VS Code Theme of the Week
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The extension bundles 12 different themes, including two light themes. The one shown above is called Material Theme Darker, which is a slightly darker version of the default theme.
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VS Code Articles & Videos
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Best of the Rest
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Potext — An open source AI-based text editor that uses local storage and lets you maintain full control over AI-suggested changes, choosing which improvements to accept or decline.
(Neo)Vim Makes You a 10x Dev, and I'm Not Kidding — "I don’t even have a GUI editor installed on my machine. It’s just me, my terminal, and Vim. And honestly, I’ve never been more productive."
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12 Best Mobile IDEs for Android and iOS App Development — Note that these are not IDEs for use on mobile as the title somewhat implies, but IDEs specifically for developing apps to run on mobile platforms.
If you have any link suggestions, including a tool, article, or other resource related to VS Code or another IDE, you can hit reply, send it via DM on X, or via chat on Bluesky.
That's it for this issue.
Happy VS Coding!
Louis
VSCode.Email
@LouisLazaris
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