How to combine all editor tabs into a single editor window in VSCode?

Question

Is there a key command to move all open editors in VSCode to a single editor window? Or similar?

Most of the time, I have two or three editor windows open in my monitor and 1-5 tabs per editor window. However, when I switch to the laptop screen, all of them are much too small to be useful. Is there a key command that moves all open editor tabs to a single pane? Or a command that's close enough to save me some tedium?

(There is a command to move the active editor to another one, shft + alt + <num> in Linux, but I can't find a command to do this with all open tabs.)

Answer 1

You can do this via the menus in VSCode by going to View -> Editor Layout -> Single.

There is no default keybinding, so I created one that mimicked the existing pattern for moving editor panes. On Mac that was ctrl + cmd + ←/→ for moving left and right, so I mapped Single to up arrow.

Open the Keyboard Shortcuts settings page, search for single. You want the View: Single Column Editor Layout command. Double-click to set a new keybinding: ctrl + cmd + ↓. This binding had two conflicts, but looking at their context they would not conflict with my use case.

See this answer by teichert for more on Editor Groups and Terminal Groups.