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> Those are by far the most important features for a text editor to have

The most important feature of an IDE is to be easy to use, having powerful functionalities is important too, but that's goes after.. VSCode has nailed the first point. Wake me up when (neo)vim/kakoune/Helix has a "list of tab view" similar to VSCode..

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(neo)vim/kakoune/Helix are not IDEs so you're going to be asleep for a long while yet.

What's a list of tabview?

VSCode has a vertical 'subwindow' on the left which list all the opened tabs. I call this 'a tab view/list', I don't know what's the real name.

Usually I have between 10 and 20 tab opened, so the tablist is very helpful for navigating between tabs.

Unfortunately (AFAIK) the 'fast' editors (vim, kakoune, etc) don't provide such feature. Some have a tree list but not a tab list :-(

Built something like this a few years ago: https://github.com/roblillack/vim-bufferlist

Thanks a lot, I don't know why I haven't been able to find it..

In vim, you can list open buffers with :b

Edit: sorry, it’s actually :ls

Sure, but I wanted to have an "always opened" subwindow like da_rob has implemented. I wonder why I haven't been able to find it before, I've tried!

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