Allow to select multiple tabs for operations such as move / compare

[juhannc]

Whenever I'm reordering my tabs and moving them between the panes, I have to select each tab individually.
It would be awesome, if I could select multiple tabs at once to reorder them or move them between panes.
Basically similar to the behavior of every modern browser, where Shift + click selects a range of tabs or Ctrl + click for selected individual tabs.

[bpasero]

Yeah I was waiting for this feature request, I think it would even be cool to allow to select multiple tabs and allow to perform actions on all of them from the context menu.

[juhannc]

Yeah I was waiting for this feature request, I think it would even be cool to allow to select multiple tabs and allow to perform actions on all of them from the context menu.

I didn't even think about all the other possible actions, good catch!

[NatoBoram]

In Firefox, I often Shift+Click to select multiple tabs and Ctrl+W to close them after some intense Googling and StackOverflowing. I find myself doing this in VSCode multiple times per day even though it doesn't do anything.

[ccarner]

In Firefox, I often Shift+Click to select multiple tabs and Ctrl+W to close them after some intense Googling and StackOverflowing. I find myself doing this in VSCode multiple times per day even though it doesn't do anything.

I did this just before, for the 100th time today haha. I'd love this change :)

[Binly42]

Another point similar to modern browsers: Allow to move a whole group even with too many tabs.

If there are too many tabs in a group, I cannot drag the group because there is no available area upon where the "mouse arrow cursor" would change to be a "hand cursor" ......

(Workaround: go into the Zen mode, where always only the active tab would be displayed in each group, and so that we can drag the rest area~)

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Excuse me If this should be a new issue, but I guess this is not a big issue and is also relative to "modern browser feature"...

Since in my opinion, there should just might be somewhat relationship between:

• operations on multiple tabs (even of one more groups?)
• operations on all tabs of a group (some of which are existed features)

[Tyriar]

I actually tried to do this a few times over the weekend instinctively as a way to close many editors at a time as the alternative is to hit ctrl+w 20 times, and ctrl+shift+t to undo when I closed too many.