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Add option to pin tabs similar to Visual Studio

Freshalmost 6 years ago
Mar 14, 20260 views
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Problem

There should be an option in Visual Studio Code to pin tabs, like you can in Visual Studio. As with issue #10739 there should be a config option allowing you to hide the "pin tab" icon in the tab itself if you just want to use the right-click menu or shortcut to pin/unpin tabs. There should also be an option (again, like in Visual Studio) where pinned tabs are put onto a separate line above the other tabs.

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Solution: Add option to pin tabs similar to Visual Studio

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@wonea Visual Studio has option to keep pinned tabs separate from open tabs (and on the different row). Such option would be great to have in Visual Studio Code. Perhaps that should be a separate ticket.

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    @wonea Visual Studio has option to keep pinned tabs separate from open tabs (and

    @wonea Visual Studio has option to keep pinned tabs separate from open tabs (and on the different row). Such option would be great to have in Visual Studio Code. Perhaps that should be a separate ticket.

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Resolved in microsoft/vscode GitHub issue #12622. Community reactions: 129 upvotes.

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Last verified Mar 14, 2026

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Alex Chen

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vscodeideeditorfeature-requestuxworkbench-tabs