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John Rix
John Rix

Reputation: 6703

Visual Studio Code explorer view scrolling

My project contains a LOT of folders, many of which I routinely have open, making for a lengthy explorer view. I find scrolling this view quite frustrating for two reasons:

  1. There is no equivalent of the editor.mouseWheelScrollSensitivity setting for the explorer view. I'm also generally happy with the scroll speed for my mouse in other applications, so don't want to go messing with a system wide setting to compensate for VSC.
  2. The scrollbar is frustratingly difficult to grab at and requires precise mouse placement. The number of times I accidentally grab at the slider and resize the view rather than scroll it is ridiculous.

I've found no useful extension to help in this matter. Has anybody any suggestions? I'll raise an enhancement request in Github if necessary.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2376

Answers (2)

Mark
Mark

Reputation: 182641

This PR in vscode 1.59 may have fixed this issue: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/110059/commits/61efc577e038ac772f12511fb823de27296dbc69

New settings:

workbench.list.mouseWheelScrollSensitivity
workbench.list.fastScrollSensitivity

Upvotes: 3

dada1134
dada1134

Reputation: 111

Here are 2 shortcuts that can speed up navigation between files:

With Ctrl then Tab you can browse a history of your last viewed files. Great for switching around when working on multiple files.

With Ctrl+P (Go to File... command) you can quickly go to a file by name. You can also search for files inside folders like this: folder/subfolder/file.ext. This is great if you know what you are looking for.

Source and more navigation tips: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/editingevolved#_quick-file-navigation

Upvotes: 3

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