vscode: Focused view missing for text editor

Huge fan of focusedView for the window.title setting as an accessibility user. The problem is that I really need to know when the text editor is focused or not. Currently I can’t tell if I’m in the editor or the search widget for example. Could we add Text Editor as a view name in focusedView?

edit: As a clarification this would be only when the focus is actually on the text editor document itself. No search or rename widgets. Preferably those would have their own names as well, but are not as important.

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Created 10 months ago
Reactions: 33
Comments: 20 (15 by maintainers)

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fix #192534 — committed to microsoft/vscode by meganrogge 9 months ago

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To verify:

add ${focusedView} to window.title
Focus different views (for example, the output channel, terminal, SCM)
Focus a text editor. You should see Text Editor in the window title.
Use the find widget in a text editor. You should not see Text Editor in the window title.

meganrogge on Oct 20, 2023

I think the monaco code editor exposes 2 events: onDidFocusEditorText and onDidFocusEditorWidget that would need to be brought up to the title control I guess.

bpasero on Oct 9, 2023

Then go ahead and add a new variable as you see fit for this use case, I think there is no limits to what we can have there in terms of variables in that setting.

bpasero on Oct 9, 2023