Show horizontal scrollbar in the files explorer

[vladmyr]

• VSCode Version: 1.7.1

It would be nice to have horizontal scroll on explorer sidebar, especially when you are working on a project with deeply nested files

[axdyng]

This is a huge User experience penalty for me. Especially when i have files that have similar starting names.

Right now, i have to manually drag the "Text Editor" area whenever i want to look for specific file names.

Atom allows us to scroll horizontally within the "explorer". I don't understand why VSCode does not have a basic UI like this.

Hope to see it soon!

[craigkj]

Im also in favour of this idea.

In the meantime i'm working around it by having a large explorer but hiding/showing it with Cmd + B (Windows is Ctrl + B). You can also open the explorer window with Cmd+Shift+E and switch to search with Cmd+Shift+F. These might be useful for anyone else coming across this issue.

These shortcuts combined with Cmd+P to jump straight to the file i'm after is proving good enough for now. Nevertheless I think having an (optional?) horizontal scroller would be a nice addition.

[lukadelux]

+1

[mwmcode]

+1

[andrewmartin]

+1

[mpenna]

+1

[viix]

+1

[ahmad-sa3d]

+1

[Clauber-camilo]

+1

[hungys]

+1

@bpasero Why was this not in backlog? 😢

[johnteee]

+1

[goodjack]

+1
please~~~

[elenath]

+1

[albert-olive]

+1

[apwete]

@bpasero Is there an ETA on when this feature might be applied? I love VS Code, but there isn't an application I work on that has a shallow folder structure and files with simple names. I will have to switch back to Atom if this isn't on the docket somewhere.

[Houcer]

+1

[lisposter]

+1

[sottar]

+1

[cezarsmpio]

+1

[max-marcus]

+1

[Keystion]

+1

[energeyes]

+1
There are some plans on this question?

[arled]

+10000000000

[mlars84]

+1

[erperejildo]

overflow-x: auto;

[jm96441n]

+1

[izcream]

4 months already. this features still not release 😢 😭

[flmm]

+1

[MichaelJGW]

I'm not sure if anyone else wants this feature but I'm giving it a +1

[RyanMitchellWilson]

It has been almost a year and a half since this issue has been opened and hundreds of people have been requesting this. @RMacfarlane @bpasero @isidorn Why does this keep getting blown off? People clearly want this and are repeatedly asking for it. Look how many duplicate issues there are for this. Why can you not prioritize one of the biggest and most asked for issues that your users are experiencing? Can this please be added in the next release? Please listen to your users.

[arthurgeron]

This can't be even called a "feature request", it is an basic UI Design flaw, plain and simple.
Shame on you Microsoft..

[erperejildo]

Another update today without this

[ha404]

Has anyone looked at the code? Is there something special about this UI? I imagine it'd just be an addition of overflow: auto.

[mehanig]

@ha404 there is PR listed above, please look into it #37105
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like its just overflow:auto

[ha404]

@mehanig holy crap. Was there some sort of advantage to "virtualizing" this view?

[gizm0bill]

@ha404 there are other parts where coding is preferred over css-ing around here, don't worry about it. Would be nice if some ui devs would get involved and try to clean stuff like this up.

[ivanrojasdev]

you know if there is a plugin for Visual Studio Code, which allows me to highlight opening and closing tags as well as the sublime text BracketHighlighter

[SeongwoonHong]

+1

[joaomoreno]

Created a workbench.tree.horizontalScrolling setting to enable horizontal scrolling in all workbench trees. The reason for a setting is performance: horizontal scrolling just costs too much and would affect everyone. Let us know bugs!

[ghost]

@joaomoreno when it will be enabled by default?