Issue #186 (Hiding & Pinning Tabs in VS Code)11/12/25
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VS Code has a couple of tab-related features you might not be aware of. First of all, as you know, by default VS Code's editor shows your open files as separate tabs. That's pretty standard for a text editor, with all tabs visible. But interestingly, you have the ability to change that using the Editor: Show Tabs setting:
The default is "multiple" but you can also select "single" (which shows only the file's tab) or "none" which shows no tabs. If you like a clean interface, you might consider one of those options.
When using a single tab, you can click the current single tab and this brings up the file chooser functionality. This is the same thing that happens if you open your command palette and remove the ">" that appears by default in the search field.
And one other setting you may not be aware of, which is relatively new, is the ability to show pinned tabs on their own row. This is enabled using the Editor: Pinned Tabs on Separate Row setting (which is off by default).
As shown above, any tabs set as "pinned" are now shown on a separate row above the other open tabs. This might be useful if there are specific open files you keep going back to and you want easy access to them.
Now on to this week's hand-picked links!
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VS Code Tools
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BringYourAI — A VS Code and Chrome extension that enables you to seamlessly integrate your codebase context from VS Code directly into any AI chat website.
Go Allocations Explorer — A VS Code extension for Go developers that helps locate Go allocations using your benchmarks.
Tech Newsletters You Might Enjoy — Here's a sampling of some popular newsletters you might want to check out on a variety of tech topics and more. They're free and you can unsubscribe any time. Sponsor
APKLab — An Android reverse-engineering workbench for VS Code, seamlessly integrating tools like Apktool, Jadx, uber-apk-signer, apk-mitm, and more, so you can focus on app analysis.
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VS Code Theme of the Week
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JellyFish — A popular theme with strong pinks and purples, but not too much that it's overbearing or anything. Some decent UI choices, though the UI is generally on the darker side.
Only has one version in the extension but if you can pair this with a nice monospace font and some other preferences, this might be a good choice.
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VS Code Articles & Videos
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Open Source AI Editor: Second Milestone — From the VS Code team, the milestone here is that the inline suggestions feature is now open source, with plans to merge the two Copilot extensions into a single extension.
AI-Slop Ransomware Test Sneaks on to VS Code Marketplace — Details on a malicious extension with basic ransomware capabilities, which was still on the marketplace when the article was published, but now seems to be taken down.
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Using VS Code, GitHub, and AMP Code for Technical Writing on macOS — No prior knowledge of the tools needed, this guide shows you how to configure a basic environment with VS Code (for editing MD files and creating code examples), GitHub (for storing files and tracking changes), and AMP Code (for AI).
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Best of the Rest
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Notes on Switching to Helix From Vim — From Julie Evans, who switched to Helix a few months ago, giving her pros an cons here, which might be helpful if you're considering using Helix yourself.
Hissab — An all in one, versatile AI-powered natural language calculator that ensures accurate answers, useful for performing quick day-to-day calculations as well as complex brainstorming and planning.
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Teamtype — Formerly Ethersync, a tool that enables real-time collaborative editing of local text files, useful for pair programming or note-taking.
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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