Issue #187 (Moving Views in VS Code)11/19/25
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If, for whatever reason, you love using nothing but your keyboard in VS Code, and you find yourself constantly moving different panels around, it's fairly simple to do this using the command palette.
With your focus on a specific view (e.g. the "folders" panel), open the command palette and type the command Move View. This produces a menu where you can choose the destination for your current view or choose the destination for another view that's not focused.
As you can see in the screenshot, you can select one of the first three options, which determines the destination for the current view. Or you can choose one of the prearranged view/destination combos (e.g. Source Control to Sidebar, Terminal to Panel, etc). Whichever option you choose, that single command will instantly move the view.
If you happen to move a panel or two and want to reset their location, it doesn't seem to be possible to move things back with the keyboard using the Move View command. But you can right-click the tab for the newly moved view to choose to move it again or choose Reset Location to put it back where it was by default.
The option to "Move To" in that context menu was added about a year ago, so it might be new to you.
Now on to this week's hand-picked links!
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VS Code Tools
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PostgreSQL for VS Code — Now generally available, this is the essential extension for working with PostgreSQL databases, locally or in the cloud, allowing you to easily connect, query, build, and chat with your databases.
CHSS: Code Highlighting Style Sheets — A VS Code extension that allows you to use CSS to customize your syntax highlighting, allowing you to assign colors and decorations to variables or functions with specific names, on a per-project basis in real-time.
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Jinno AI — A VS Code extension for React, Next.js, and design systems, that allows you to live preview React components directly within VS Code.
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VS Code Theme of the Week
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Anchorage — An old light theme that's optimized for JavaScript development, that has a decent color palette and isn't too bright, using an off-white background. The name seems to be inspired by the city in Alaska, thus it's a light theme.
It also has a dark sidebar, for interesting UI dynamic. So if you like the editor light but prefer some of the UI to still be dark, this might be a decent option.
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VS Code Articles & Videos
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Best of the Rest
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MarkEdit — A free and open source Markdown editor for macOS that's just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown.
Cloudflare Sandbox SDK — An SDK that lets you run untrusted code safely in isolated containers, enabling you to execute commands, manage files, run background processes, and expose services, all from your Workers apps.
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Daytona — Fast, scalable, and stateful infrastructure to run AI-generated code, with options to use the Python or TypeScript SDK.
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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