Hot exit with multiple windows doesn't work

[mnpenner]

I don't know if this is a bug or a feature. This was first suggested in #17548 but was closed in favour of #15467 and then "fixed" in #18626

But I still get prompts with onExitAndWindowClose. Maybe this is WAI, so I'm filing this as a feature request -- I don't want any prompts. I don't want to sift through dozens of scratch files to figure out what I need to keep or not every time I close a window. Just save them somewhere.

IntelliJ has a special slot for them in the project tree called "Scratches". Maybe add a new panel in the Explorer accordion called "Scratches" that would list them all there. Or maybe two, one for Global and one for Current Workspace. I don't really care where these scratches get saved right now, I just want rid of the prompt and know that they're somewhere on disk if I really need them again.

Likewise, I don't want 3 or 4 windows to open every time I run vscode because I had some scratches open when I shut down my computer. Please, can we just tuck them away somewhere?

[Tyriar]

When you set "files.hotExit": "onExitAndWindowClose" you're not meant to get any prompts, unless the window does not have a folder. Perhaps you're trying in empty workspaces? The reason it's like this is because we want to make sure you can always access your untitled files/changes by re-opening the workspace, you cannot reopen windows that don't have a folder.

FYI this scratches idea could probably be done as an extension these days, but that hot exit setting plus just making sure you're always working within a folder should do it as well.

[mnpenner]

I usually don't have a folder open though. I use VS Code as a lightweight editor to edit adhoc configuration files or temporarily hold snippets of code. Good idea about the extension though, I just found buenon.scratchpads. Will give that a whirl and see if it results in fewer prompts.