Close Search Tabs

Closes all search editor tabs in one go 😱

Search editors pile up quickly: every Search: … tab stays open until you close it by hand. This extension adds a single command that closes all of them, leaving your other tabs untouched.

Usage

Open the Command Palette (⇧⌘P on macOS, Ctrl+Shift+P on Windows/Linux) and run Close Search Tabs.

It closes every search editor in the active editor group, including search editors restored from a previous session, which VS Code labels just Search until they are focused. Regular files are never closed, even if they happen to be named Search.

Keyboard shortcut

The extension doesn't bind a shortcut by default. To add one, open Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts (JSON) and add:

{
  "key": "ctrl+alt+w",
  "command": "close-search-tabs.main"
}

Development

pnpm install
pnpm test               # lints, then runs the tests inside a downloaded VS Code
pnpm run vsce:package   # builds a .vsix
pnpm run vsce:publish   # publishes to the Marketplace (requires `pnpm exec vsce login zeppelin`)

License

MIT