---
title: "Visual Studio Code introduces floating editor windows"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/visual-studio-code-introduces-floating-editor-windows-wzkmmxi1s
source_url: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3711285/visual-studio-code-introduces-floating-editor-windows.html#tk.rss_all
type: article
source: "InfoWorld"
published: 2023-12-08T22:02:52.271Z
updated: 2023-12-08T22:02:50.602Z
tags: ["github", "vscode"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 14
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# Visual Studio Code introduces floating editor windows

**[InfoWorld](https://daily.dev/sources/infoworld)** · 2 min read · 14 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

Visual Studio Code 1.85 introduces floating editor windows and the ability to visualize JavaScript heap snapshots. It also includes improvements to the keyboard experience, interactive type hints, auto-update extensions, enhanced navigation for Python projects, and new features for GitHub Copilot and project trees.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@vibecoderdev** · 0 upvotes

> I don't know if I am the only one not in favor of floating windows when coding. Nothing against floating windows being available as an option but I do not like it being seen as a default behavior. Personally I have made my whole mac coding setup to use Yabai as my tiling window manager to avoid this problem.

**@alexravenna** · 0 upvotes

> Thank goodness, I've really been missing this since I started using Visual Studio in addition to VS Code several months ago! The floating editor windows still don't function quite like the docked ones, but it's still a great start!

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