How to disable preview file with single-click in vs code?
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I would much rather double-click to open file, and prevent single-click previews. How do we do that in vs code?
Visual Studio-Code Solutions
Solution 1 - Visual Studio-Code
From vscode 1.20:
"workbench.list.openMode": "doubleClick",
Solution 2 - Visual Studio-Code
The only way to disable file previewing when clicked on at all is by setting "workbench.editor.enablePreview" to false.
"workbench.editor.enablePreview": false,
Solution 3 - Visual Studio-Code
Go to File->Preferences->Settings, search for the following and disable it:
"workbench.editor.enablePreview": false
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Solution 4 - Visual Studio-Code
The necessary settings to prevent single-click in the Explorer view opening a file at all are in the previous answers to this question but you need to apply two of them:
"workbench.editor.enablePreview": false
That will change single-click in the explorer to fully open the file instead of opening it in preview (italics) mode. Arguably this is worse than before unless you're on a touchscreen device so you also need the following setting:
"workbench.list.openMode": "doubleClick"
Now you have to double-click on a file in Explorer to open it and preview is off. Finally, I had to restart all open instances of vscode for the doubleClick change to take effect.
vscode is a moving target so I should point out this was tested in version 1.45.1.
Solution 5 - Visual Studio-Code
As far as I know there is no way to do this right now (version 1.12).
Many people "requested" this feature, just look at this GitHub issue.
.. and a relatively new comment about the issue:
> Sorry, didn't have much time to look into this again. As it stands > right now we need to clean up some debt first in the area of tree > usage throughout our code before we can ask for a PR again.
Solution 6 - Visual Studio-Code
Probably you're mixing the terms. I guess you are talking about "Peek" feature:
And here is how you can disable it:
"editor.gotoLocation.multipleDefinitions": "goto"
Also, there is a "Preview editor" feature:
That could be disabled by:
"workbench.editor.enablePreview": false
Solution 7 - Visual Studio-Code
Here is how to set this from UI level if you do not want to edit files directly: File -> Preferences -> Workbench -> List: Open mode = 'doubleClick'
or
File -> Preferences -> search for 'Open mode' and set it to 'doubleClick'
Solution 8 - Visual Studio-Code
So I had to do both suggestions by @Alex and @MichaelJ.Calkins. More specifically I had to configure the open mode setting to click and enable preview to true. That way I can preview with a single click and actually keep it open with a double click. Below are the settings that were configured.
"workbench.list.openMode": "singleClick",
"workbench.editor.enablePreview": true,
Solution 9 - Visual Studio-Code
Another configuration entry (above the "workbench.editor.enablePreview": true) that can prevent VSCode from opening files on new tab is the following:
"workbench.editor.showTabs": false
Make sure it is removed from settings.json or it is set to true.