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Open new WSL window and close local one. #1673
Description
As in title, it could be nice if opening a remote-wsl session could also close/replace the current window.
Reacted by edwardvdv, Kevin Kainan Li, Sylver, kanlukasz, AntoineGlacet and mhash17
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aeschli commentedon Oct 15, 2019
What command do you use to open a Remote-WSL session?
Elia0107 commentedon Oct 18, 2019
Hi, from f1 or the icon in bottom left, there are some choices. One of them is "Reopen folder in...", but works only if I have folder added in workspace. I want some like "Open in WSL" closing the current "windows" window
[-]open Remote-WSL replacing current window[/-][+]Open new WSL window and close local one.[/+]legendre6891 commentedon Mar 28, 2021
Thanks to the developers of this extension and +1 to this feature.
I came looking for this since I saw that the Remote-SSH extension already had support for this
kanlukasz commentedon Nov 16, 2021
Yes, this is something I miss too
Every time I have to use a
New WSL Windowswhich opens a new VSCode instance.It would be better to have a choice of type:
New WSL WindowsCurrent Windows WSL(or something like that)JosephLalli commentedon May 1, 2022
What is the status of this request? I know I would get a great deal of benefit from it.
aeschli commentedon May 2, 2022
Just to make I'm sure, what you are asking is a command that brings up an empty remote window in place of the currently opened window.
Alle existing editors are closed?
et304383 commentedon May 2, 2022
This is a terrible experience from a UX perspective, and not seemless at all when operating on both Windows files and WSL files.
JosephLalli commentedon May 2, 2022
"A command that brings up an
empty remote windownew remote window with all currently open files/tabs in place of the currently opened window" That's the feature request, I think. Sometimes I'll be working, I'll have a dozen different files open, and I'll realize I'm not in a WSL environment. I'd like the ability to chose to close the editor window and reopen all tabs in a new WSL window without having to save and close my work beforehand.aeschli commentedon May 6, 2024
The command
Connect to WSL(which is in the remote menu by default since a while) opens a WSL distro in the current window.If you already have a folder (or workspace) open and what to reopen the a WSL window, for that we have
WSL: Reopen Folder in WSLReopen with all currently open files/tabs is unfortunately not as trivial to implement as is sounds. It would be good if we capture this in a new issue.