AlwaysOpenWorkspace

Inspired by vim-rooter. AlwaysOpenWorkspace opens a workspace by finding the project root when you open a file.

The project root is identified by:

• being a known directory;
• or the presence of a known directory, such as a VCS directory;
• or the presence of a known file, such as a Rakefile.

Out of the box it knows about git, darcs, mercurial, bazaar, and subversion, but you can configure it to look for anything.

The workspace will not be opened if the file has been associated with any existing workspace.

Caution

Be sure to disable "Explorer: Expand Single Folder Workspaces" in the VSCode setting. Otherwise VSCode will find the workspace for you (and AlwaysOpenWorkspace will always resepct VSCode's decision

Features

Auto add folder

automatically add folders to the current workspace if there are opened files without corresponding folders. If there are no opened workspaces, a new one will be created.

Auto remove folder

automatically remove the folder when there are no opened files in it. The last one won't be removed. It can be disabled in the setting.

Auto close vscode

close the last editor will also close VSCode. default is false, need to enable it in the extension setting

Known Issues

• For nodejs projects, some vscode plugins will open package.json and tsconfig.json automatically. In such a case, the auto-remove feature will fail to function because these files cannot be closed by the user.
• Sometimes auto-remove will fail to remove the unused folder. We are waiting for VS Code to support better editor API to solve it.

Debug

All logs will be shown in Help->Toggle Developer Tools

Release Notes

0.10.0

• support open current folder if the pattern "./" is added to "Root Folders" setting (default is not)

0.0.4

• Automatcally close vscode when all editors are closed

0.0.3

• Automatcally remove folder if all files belong to the folder are closed

0.0.1

• Initial release