Sort open tabs in alphabetical order - like Notepad++

[rcwwilliams]

I often need to have many tabs open at the same time. Notepad++ has a feature to sort the tabs in alphabetical order by filename which is extremely useful and makes it so much easier to find a particular code file.

It would be great if this could be added to VS Code.

[vs-code-engineering]

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[gjsjohnmurray]

@rcwwilliams are you aware of the "explorer.openEditors.sortOrder": "alphabetical" setting for the Open Editors pane?

[rcwwilliams]

@gjsjohnmurray no I wasn't - thanks very much indeed - that's great!

[gjsjohnmurray]

@benibenj how about we add an Settings (gearwheel) action button to the title of the Open Editors pane, to increase discoverability of this? If you like the idea I could prepare a PR.

[rcwwilliams]

@benibenj an entry on the menu after right click on a tab would be even better I think

[benibenj]

@gjsjohnmurray I would not make it a primary action for the view, but possibly there could be an action in the overflow menu, similar to the overflow menu in the tab bar.

If sorting is a frequent action, then we can expose the actions in the overflow menu similar to the outline view:

I'd be happy to get a PR for this :)

[gjsjohnmurray]

I'd be happy to get a PR for this :)

#237678