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VS Code Introduces Floating Windows Support - The Most Requested Feature Ever

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Re: VS Code Introduces Floating Windows Support - The Most Requested Feature Ever

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Floating windows feature has the most thumbs up (2.89k) in the entire VS Code history - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aissue+sort...

Official release announcement - https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_84#_floating-editor...

Floating windows feature is available in the VS Code Insiders channel - https://code.visualstudio.com/insiders/

Re: VS Code Introduces Floating Windows Support - The Most Requested Feature Ever

#6
This remains the #1 thing I want for neovim. Neovim works pretty well headless, but multiple clients all have to be the same screen size basically.

There was some notions about called SmartUI, back in 2015, that we're looking at decoupling this. But never materialized. https://tarruda.github.io/articles/neovim-smart-ui-protocol/

Re: VS Code Introduces Floating Windows Support - The Most Requested Feature Ever

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The original issue on GitHub ask for that the toolpanes (terminal, Debug console, etc) can be opened in a floating window. What the upcoming vs code feature has implemented is that the code editor for a file can be opened in a new window.

The announced feature doesn't actually address the original issue raised and is much less useful than the features the OP ask for.

Personally it is rare that I need to display two documents in two seperate windows, but to have some of the tools in seperate windows. That I use all in the time in visual studio proper.

Re: VS Code Introduces Floating Windows Support - The Most Requested Feature Ever

#10

This remains the #1 thing I want for neovim. Neovim works pretty well headless, but multiple clients all have to be the same screen size basically. There was some notions about called SmartUI, back in 2015, that we're looking at decoupling this. But never materialized. https://tarruda.github.io/articles/neovim-smart-ui-protocol/

Can’t you just open multiple terminal windows? Neovim is a CLI program. It shouldn’t have to deal with windows.
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