Skip to main content Link Search Menu Expand Document (external link) Copy Copied

VS Code


How to turn off auto select in File Explorer when changing window tabs?

In VSCode, if I have an editor window tab open and I click anywhere in that editor window, the selected file in the File Explorer changes to the file being edited. I would like to prevent that behavior.

Preferences -> Settings -> Explorer: Auto Reveal (explorer.autoReveal)

Change to False.

Keyboard shortcut to manually show the current file in Explorer:

Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts

Search for workbench.files.action.showActiveFileInExplorer

Setup shortcut. Eg. Ctrl+Alt+A.

{ “key”: “ctrl+alt+a”, “command”: “workbench.files.action.showActiveFileInExplorer” }