Pin Reorder and Wrap Tabs

Keep the files you always need at the front of the tab strip, put tabs in the order you like, and choose whether a long row of tabs scrolls or wraps. This page covers the tab strip above the editor. Opening, saving and closing files is in Editor and Tabs.

Move a tab

Drag a tab left or right:

• Press on a tab and move the mouse a little. The tab lifts and follows the pointer, and the other tabs slide aside to show where it will land.
• Let go to drop it there. The tab you dragged becomes the tab on screen.
• Press Escape while dragging to put it back where it was.
• When the tabs scroll, drag near the left or right end of the strip to scroll it.

A tab moves inside its own group. With the split editor on, use the move item in the tab's right-click menu, such as Move to Right Group, to move it to another group.

The Diff tab is always first and cannot be moved.

Pin a tab

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A pinned tab stays at the front of the strip and stays open when you clean up:

• Right-click a tab and choose Pin Tab, or use Window > Pin Tab for the tab on screen.
• Pinned tabs move to the start of the strip, after the Diff tab, in the order you pinned them.
• A pinned tab shows a pin where the close button would be. Click the pin to unpin it.
• Close Others, Close to the Right and Close All leave pinned tabs open. The Tab limit in Settings > Editor never closes them either.
• To close a pinned tab, middle-click it, choose Close in its menu, or press Cmd+W while it is on screen.

Dragging never pins or unpins a tab. A pinned tab moves only among the pinned tabs, and any other tab stops right after the last pinned one.

Pinning a preview tab (the one in italics) also keeps it open. Pinned tabs stay pinned after a restart when Reopen tabs on start is on, and Reopen Closed Tab (Shift+Cmd+T) brings a closed pinned tab back pinned.

Wrap tabs

By default, tabs that do not fit stay in one row and you scroll through them with the mouse wheel. Turn on Settings > Editor > Wrap tabs to show them on more rows instead:

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• Every tab stays visible, so you never have to scroll to find one.
• The strip grows one row at a time as you open tabs, and shrinks as you close them.
• Dragging works across rows: move the pointer to another row to drop the tab there.

Turn the switch off to go back to one scrolling row. The setting is saved as wrapTabs in settings.json.

With Tab limit set to Single tab and only one tab open, the strip shows its name in the middle instead of a tab. See Single Tab Title.

Related

• Editor and Tabs
• Settings
• How tabs are arranged (developer)