• azertyfun@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    You mean a whole different window at the OS level? That’s just a way inferior hack to the way vim does it by default.

    I’ve found an issue from 2017 about it and this related one that focuses more specifically on supporting vim-like behavior. This is just, fundamentally, something that VSCode doesn’t implement simply because of technical limitations. The extensions that attempt to recreate this behavior are apparently all quite janky.

    I mean I don’t care, I’m very happy with vim now. But the terribly naive tab support is the reason I left vscode for vim initially. People who have only known “vscode-like” tabs don’t know what they are missing out on.

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      8 months ago

      You mean a whole different window at the OS level?

      Yes, that way I could switch between windows in a single shortcut, or even place them side by side so I can see both at the same time with other shortcuts.

      That’s just a way inferior hack to the way vim does it by default.

      Can you explain this more?

      Why wouldn’t you want window management to be managed by the window manager?