Did you know about native macOS tabs in vscode?

I was trawling through the vscode options the other day looking for some window resizing stuff, and found an option entitled "Native Tabs". Being a curious sort I enabled it and was surprised to see that all my separate open windows were now combined into 1 with native tabs across the top to navigate between them. This in my opinion is a much better way of displaying multiple projects than workspace folders. You even get a nice little + icon for opening new projects.

Enabling Native Tabs #

Just like any other option it is available in the GUI settings or the JSON file settings. Accessible by pressing cmd + , or via the menu with 'Code -> Preferences -> Settings'. The option you are looking for is under "Window" entitled "Native Tabs".

If you prefer you could just add the following to your settings.json file:

  "window.nativeTabs": true

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