Notice you can also control this behavior for files you open through the Quick Open feature. Uncheck that to change your editor behavior. You’ll see a Workbench › Editor: Enable Preview option that’s certainly checked.

I’ve got a good news for you: you can configure this behavior! 😉 So you forget, you click on another file and snap, your previous file is gone and you need to go get it again! It just adds friction because you think the file is open but it’s hard to make the difference with a preview. Maybe you usually want to open the files you select and you find that behavior kinda annoying. OK, but I’d prefer to open files when I click on them. If you want the file to open and stick in it’s own tab, you can double-click on the file name, or on the tab. That way, you can easily see what’s inside a file, just by clicking on it. It’s meant to prevent you from opening 10 different tabs if you are just looking for something, but you don’t intent to keep the files open. Since there can only be one preview tab, the preview will change if you select another file.Īctually, this is a VS Code feature. When you click on a file, you preview its content. In fact, this tab is a preview of the file. Well, if you look closer, you can notice the tab name is italicised. What if you want to open each file in a new tab when you click them? Why is it behaving like that? 😭 It opens the file in the same tab, replacing the previous file.Īnd that can feel a bit annoying.

Using Visual Studio Code, you probably noticed this behavior:

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