Allow to close multiple tabs without moving the mouse after closing one

[maximilianschmitt]

Hi! I love the new shrink tab sizing in the latest version of Code. It feels much more natural to me because I now have a much better idea of which editors are open in which pane and how many are open in total.

There's an awesome thing that Chrome does when you're closing tabs – it doesn't resize the tabs while you're closing them. This allows you to close many tabs by just clicking repeatedly. It's a small details but it makes the experience a lot smoother in my opinion:

For comparison, here is how closing multiple tabs currently behaves in VS Code:

I think the behaviour is something like this:

If the user just closed a tab by clicking, and there is a tab to the right,
don't resize the tabs until the user moves the mouse pointer out from the tabs bar.

When you close a tab that is currently active, select the tab
to the right next (not the previously selected tab).

[feargswalsh92]

This doesn't exactly solve this problem but in case you didn't know VSCode supports the Cmd+W keyboard shortcut that I use in chrome to close multiple tabs in a row. This helps me a lot with closing a bunch at once.

[maximilianschmitt]

Thanks @feargswalsh92, I use that shortcut all the time but sometimes using the mouse is more convenient. :)

[stclairdaniel]

Is there any update here? I couldn't find any recent conversations but this is something that still bugs me.

[MichaelAldrich]

Would love an update on this.

[paweston70]

There is an alternative - workbench.editor.tabCloseButton can be positioned on the left, that way the mouse pointer always remains in the same place, but a user naturally gravitates to the right to close a tab, so it would be quicker, but just slightly annoying.