Provide a command to close all unchanged files

[soneymathew]

• VSCode Version: all
• OS Version: all

At work I use this editor heavily and sometimes end up in a situation where lots of editor are open.
It will be great if there is an option to close all unchanged files quickly.
Happy to raise a pull request for this as well !

• Editor Action Support for Closing Unmodified files in a group from

  1. Explorer Open Editor's context menu
     

  2. Editor Tab context menu
     

  3. Command Palette
     

[bpasero]

Imho this command should be provided as an extension.

[soneymathew]

@bpasero Imho I felt the other way round based on other editors I have used since this is a very common feature that qualified to be part of the core editor.

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[bpasero]

@soneymathew still, being out for 2 years and not having anyone complain about this potentially missing feature bothers me. I am not questioning its usefulness but I want this to be an extension if possible.

[soneymathew]

Thanks for the guidance @bpasero , I am using vscode since less than a year and really miss this feature especially while exploring large code bases, while tracing code flows. The lighter the editor the more tabs I will have open until I narrow down the search to what I am looking for.

I spoke to a couple of users and got mixed reactions, so I think you have a good point there.
I will investigate if the extensions approach is performant enough to cater to this need when I get time away from work, probably a weekend. Till then I am happy using my fork for my daily usage ;)

Meanwhile would you consider keeping this issue open to see if any other users have a different point of view ?

[bpasero]

@soneymathew sure we keep this open and we can also leave your PR open for now. Please give the extension model a try and see if there is something missing.

[bpasero]

Merged via #25692

[bpasero]

Verification
Verify the new "Close Unmodified" action works as expected from the various places where you can invoke it (commands palette, right click on a tab, open editors view).