Support a grid layout for editors

[Tekbr]

• VSCode Version: Windows 10
• OS Version: 1.7.0 - insider

-- Sorry for the English, I used Google Translator --

Leave even better drag and drop, detecting where we point out the window.(#224, #1749).

How does the Atom. I think it's more intuitive.

[bpasero]

@Tekbr what is wrong with our approach?

[Tekbr]

@bpasero I think it was not very clear. I'll try to explain better. Sorry for English

I enjoyed new in version 1.7, but it would be interesting to allow vertical and horizontal split at the same time.

As shown in the gif, three tabs. A vertical split, horizontal split at the same time.

Clicking a button (or use the shortcut) to change the orientation, it becomes a little boring.

Just as we drag the tab to the side it adjusts the window, dragging down, near the lower edge of this window to adjust, without the need to use "Toggle Editor Group Layout".

[nambrot]

I used the 👍 but wanted to provide verbal support for this usecase as well. I have a rather large monitor on which I use Sublime in a 2x3 grid which currently is not possible in VS Code as you have to choose between horizontal vs vertical.

[tomasiser]

After finally implementing #1749, this is another needed step towards making the workbench as flexible as in other editors (Sublime Text, Atom, vim, Emacs, full Visual Studio - they all support grid layouts). Especially on larger screens, it is very useful to use 2×2 or 1+2 grid layouts. Some people with very large screens tend to use even more crazy layouts, which can be useful when working on projects that have multiple related files (e.g. header files in C++).

Would be very lovely to have something like this in VS Code!

[Shahor]

I like to be able to split both vertically and horizontally and this is really missing here :(

Hopefully it will be implemented. This is the only major problem I have with vscode right now.

[mschwartz]

+1

I use WebStorm over VS Code for three reasons:

1. Can't split horizontally
2. vim emulation is mediocre (but thanks anyway, it makes it usable at all)
3. can't record keyboard macros

VS Code is really fast and I like that it's in JavaScript. It has soooo much potential. I'm sure it'll be my editor of choice when those things are implemented.

To be clear, here's a screenshot of WebStorm menu (what I mean by horizontal split):

[dgtlife]

For me, Atom has it perfectly ... split up/down ... split left/right ... and you can end up with 4 quadrants, or 2 on the left and 1 on the right, or 1 on the left and 2 on the right, or even more if you like ... each with its own set of tabs. A newly opened file goes into the section with focus at the time of opening. I currently use all three cases on my 4K monitor.

[wclr]

I wonder why it was not implement yet, or maybe VS team has some justifications against horizontal split?

[danwulff]

@whitecolor VSCode has horizontal split. You can enable it by pressing 'alt+shift+1' (toggles between vertical and horizontal splitting).

However, I would definitely agree that a grid layout allowing a mismash of horizontal and vertical windows is needed in VSCode. In my office, I'm the only person consistently using VSCode and one of the outstanding reasons is the lack of grid layout capability.