microsoft / microsoft/vscode

Tab Preview on Hover

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feature-request workbench-tabs
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Description

It would be useful to have a visual preview when hovering over an open editor tab in VS Code, similar to how Windows shows a window preview when hovering over an app on the taskbar.

When hovering over a file tab, VS Code could display a small preview of the file/editor content without requiring a click to switch tabs.

This would make it much easier to identify files when many tabs are open, especially when filenames are similar or truncated.

A lightweight, non-interactive preview would be ideal. Thanks.

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