Show a "Reveal in Sidebar" command in the context menu of an editor

[kenken023]

• VSCode Version: Version 1.4.0 (1.4.0)
• OS Version: OS X El Capitan 10.11.4

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open a file
2. Right click on the file content and select "reveal in sidebar" (file explorer)

[bpasero]

File: Show Active File in Explorer (from the command palette)

[kenken023]

Is it possible to add it to the right click options?

[bpasero]

@kenken023 right click where? on a tab?

[kenken023]

Please see attached screenshot. :)
I find it very useful especially from find results. Thank you very much 👍

[bpasero]

Good candidate for an extension 👍

[alefragnani]

@bpasero I don't know if this was intentional, but there is some limitation about what you can add as Context Menu items.

If you try to define new Context Menu items based on commands defined outside your extension, like in this case the core command workbench.files.action.showActiveFileInExplorer, an error occurs and the context menu is not displayed anymore. The Console says _TypeError: Cannot read property 'title' of undefined at e._compareMenuItems_

The Intellisense warns you while coding in package.json file, but the documentation in Contribution Points isn't clear about that. So, a new extension will be forced to duplicate core commands, in order to do that.

Should this limitation be updated, in order to allow this kind of customization?

[bpasero]

@alefragnani I suggest you report this as issue so that we can look into it

[alefragnani]

@bpasero wouldn't #9285 be a better solution in this case? I mean, the commands already exists so the user should only configure where/how it is presented.

[bpasero]

Yes, also a possible solution 👍

[bpasero]

For January I pushed "Reveal in Explorer / Side Bar" to the context menu of editors (tabs).

[neoramos]

Hello, I am making the switch to VSCode and found you can add { "key": "cmd+]", "command": "workbench.files.action.showActiveFileInExplorer", "when": "editorTextFocus" } to your keybindings.json. In my case, pressing cmd+] will reveal the currently opened file in the explorer folder tree, exactly what Sublime Text does when right+click on currently opened file and clicking on "reveal in sidebar". Hope this helps. Neo

[monkindey]

hi, @neoramos .Thanks for your sharing. But the cmd+] shortcut binding would conflict with the Indent Line. What about cmd+ctrl+[?

[isidorn]

This feature request will not be considered in the next 6-12 months roadmap and as such will be closed to keep the number of issues we have to maintain actionable. Thanks for understanding and happy coding!