Feature Request: Distraction free (zen) mode

[ihorskyi]

Would be most useful to have it in vscode. IDE/Editors that have it

• IntelliJ idea/Webstorm
• Eclipse
• Atom
• Sublime Text

[smuuf]

Do you mean something like when you press F11?
That works for me, with version 1.5.3.

[bpasero]

@ihorskyi you can hide the sidebar and set the window to full screen (from the view menu). You can even hide the status bar too.

[ihorskyi]

@smuuf what is F11? If that is a full screen, then it is just a full screen, there are still lot of distracting elements occupying screen real estate.

@bpasero Could you please show the way to hide sidebar so it is not visible at all? And is it possible to hide tab titles?

Picture says a thousand words, here are examples of what I mean:

Atom

Default

ZEN mode

WebStorm

Default

Distraction free mode

VSCode

Default

Fullscreen without status bar (Maximum what I could remove from screen)

BTW, every editor hides scrollbars by default nowdays

[bpasero]

@ihorskyi you could disable tabs but not hide them. you can also not hide the activity bar to the far left currently, but we are thinking about a zen mode because other users asked for it too.