Have a history for recently edited editors

[ryenus]

It seems the following 2 features are missing from vscode:

1. a dedicated list for recently edited files, excluding the files opened only for readonly view
2. recent edit positions, an action to jump back to recent cursor positions where changes were done, should support jumping through multiple files.

When working on a project with lots of files, one might need to jump through many files, but only edit a few, the list of recent files could help but it would be great to have a dedicated action to list only recently edited files, and to navigate through them.

And jumping back to previous edit positions allows one to be right back on the spot, immediately, to resume previous work when briefly interrupted for API lookup or similar things, thus it would be very helpful for one to be able to navigate through the places where modifications has been done recently.

For reference, such features already exist in IntelliJ IDEA, see: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/navigating-to-recent-file.html

• VSCode Version: 1.19.3
• OS Version: macOS 10.13

[ryenus]

Interesting to see that Eclipse just got this feature: https://youtu.be/V5O52H7e8oc?t=310

[ryenus]

Oops, bad bot?

@bpasero I believe this is still relevant?

[starball5]

Related on Stack Overflow: Recent changed Locations in vscode (Like in IntelliJ)

I'm also curious why this is closed as out-of-scope, though I recognize that it wouldn't have gotten added to the backlog anyway due to not getting enough upvotes in time.

[ryenus]

@bpasero bubbling this up for your notice.

[bpasero]

This meanwhile got implemented behind commands workbench.action.navigateBackInEditLocations and workbench.action.navigatePreviousInEditLocations

[ryenus]

Having a command to navigate through previous edit locations is great, these commands only allow sequential navigation, meanwhile if we have a dedicated list of recently modified files then it would possible to jump through those files on demand, which would be also very useful.

One possible solution is to split the list of "recently opened" files into 2 groups,

1. group 1: recently changed/modified
2. group 2: recently opened/viewed

[dreamfliper]

search for similar extensions: no results
find something like workbench.action.getNavigateLocations: no results
still waiting for this feature to be implemented