How can I open a specific file in a specified split view with an built-in command in VS codium? Is that possible without writing an extension?
I have a project, and I periodically I want to open a pair of files in specific way in split view. Let's mention them as problem1.py
and problem1.txt
. I want to programmatically open problem1.py in the left side, and the problem1.txt in the right side.
I found an a documentation for the command vscode.open
:
vscode.open - Opens the provided resource in the editor. Can be a text or binary file, or an http(s) URL. If you need more control over the options for opening a text file, use vscode.window.showTextDocument instead.
- uri - Uri of a text document
- columnOrOptions - (optional) Either the column in which to open or editor options, see vscode.TextDocumentShowOptions
- label - (optional)
- (returns) - no result
In keybindings.json
I created following statements:
{
"key": "numpad4",
"command": "vscode.open",
"args": "/home/user/myproject/README.md"
},
{
"key": "numpad6",
"command": "vscode.open",
"args": ["/home/user/myproject/README.md", "1"]
},
Now when I press numpad4
, it works perfectly, the readme file opens. But when I press numpad6
, I get a notification:
Unable to open '': An unknown error occurred. Please consult the log for more details.
Am I passing parameters in a wrong way? Why it does not detect a filename? And I do not see whare to view a log.
Additional info:
VS codium version: 1.66.2.
I saw a cli option -r, --reuse-window
, but it has not control of in which view I want to open a file.
I saw a similar question, but there the author wants to do it from extension, while I would prefer to not write an extension for this problem. Also, as documentation says, I think I do not need vscode.window.showTextDocument, as vscode.open should be enough for my task.
Here is an enum list for available ViewColumn values: https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/vscode-api#ViewColumn
htmlRelatedLinks.openFile
"viewColumn": 1
, maybe have to adjust the README to make it clearvscode.open
command was not really intended for use outside an extension. Note that the first argument is auri
which you wouldn't normally have easy access to except in an extension. [That was later relaxed to a simple path string, but the documentation was never updated.] This is why there are a number of extensions to do this, butHTML Related Links
appears to handle the viewColumn arg whereas some others don't.