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CABascourt
CABascourt

Reputation: 1608

How can I move VS Code's Run and Debug View from the primary sidebar to the panel area?

Is it possible to move left panel Debug from left to bottom? I believe is more comfortable to see all the callstacks, variables and watches in the bottom panel.

Upvotes: 16

Views: 10934

Answers (3)

starball
starball

Reputation: 50294

For VS Code 1.84 and onward

This is now supported. You can now click and drag the Debug View to the Panel area, or the secondary sidebar. Ex. If it is in the default location in the primary sidebar bar, then you can click and drag its icon in the activity bar to the tab strip of the Panel area.

For VS Code 1.83 and below

This is not supported at the time of this writing. You can drag the subsections of the Run and Debug, but not the whole thing itself.

There are issue tickets requesting such a feature:

Some historical work seems to have been done to support implementation of this feature in Debug Panels Location Options #65971, but it seems like that issue ticket's completion did not actually complete the implementation of the feature.

Give #143264 a thumbs up to show support for it, and subscribe to it to get notified on discussion and progress. Please avoid noisy comments there like "+1" / "bump".

For your reference / learning purposes, those issue tickets were found by googling "github vscode issues move run and debug view to panel".

Upvotes: 2

Mark
Mark

Reputation: 181060

Update: As of Insiders v1.84 you can now move the Entire Run and Debug view to the Panel or Auxiliary Side Bar. So I would expect to see this in Stable v1.84 early November 2023. Demo of it working:

move debug view to Panel demo

Go upvote the issue https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/65971 (alternative debug panel locations) - it is a backlog candidate so it needs your votes.

This feature request is now a candidate for our backlog. The community has 60 days to upvote the issue. If it receives 20 upvotes we will move it to our backlog. If not, we will close it.

Update: Work is proceeding, early preview is in Insiders' Build in mid-February 2020. See https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/90468. In the Insiders' Build you can move the watch, Breakpoints, Variables, Call Stack to the Panel or back to the Sidebar. So this may make it to v1.43.

And see https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-docs/blob/vnext/release-notes/v1_43.md#easier-moving-of-even-more-views

debug views to panel

Upvotes: 15

toddmo
toddmo

Reputation: 22406

You just drag the individual debug panes to the bottom terminal / output area.

That's a short answer, but it really is made very simple now

Upvotes: 2

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