Sort by last used

[lemonyte]

I couldn't find any options to sort the workspace list by time last used, so that recent ones appear on top and old ones are at the bottom.
Other vscode cmdpal extensions and the old PowerToys Run plugin do this.

This is pretty much the only thing missing for me, otherwise it's a great extension! Thanks

[tanchekwei]

Hi @lemonyte , pls try the latest version, 1.15.0.0 from Windows Store. Thanks.

[lemonyte]

Thanks for the quick reply! I tested version 1.15.0.0 but it seems to still have the same issue. Workspaces are sorted correctly after typing in a few characters to search, but not when the search bar is empty.

I looked into state.vscdb where the list of workspaces comes from and it seems they are already sorted by most recently used in there, so maybe something along the way to rendering breaks this order:

• maybe the additional sorting logic reorders them
• maybe saving the workspaces into the plugin's workspaces.db doesn't preserve the order

Here is the script I used to see the list directly from state.vscdb:

import sqlite3
import json
from pprint import pprint

conn = sqlite3.connect(r"C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\globalStorage\state.vscdb")
cur = conn.cursor()
result = cur.execute("SELECT value FROM ItemTable WHERE key LIKE 'history.recentlyOpenedPathsList'").fetchone()
if result:
    data = json.loads(result[0])
    pprint(data["entries"])

Thanks again for looking at this!

[tanchekwei]

Hi @lemonyte , pls try the latest version, 1.16.0.0 from Windows Store.

Added new settings Sort By, you can select Recent from Visual Studio Code option.

[lemonyte]

Version 1.16.0.0 fixed the issue. Thank you!