API Access to "Open Editors"

[ChuckJonas]

I have a use case where I would like to be able to get a list of all the open editors (basically exactly what is shown here).

I understand that Editors are disposed but I just need a list of filenames.

Something like: workspace.openDocuments:Array<TextDocument> or even just workspace.openFiles:Array<string>.

Long term, it might be nice to have API access to operate on this list (EG: sort open editors pane by last opened, name, etc).

[ChuckJonas]

Also, just wanted to add that this is blocking our vscode Salesforce IDE extension (mavensmate) from reaching feature parity with Sublime and Atom (and thus increasing the risk of it being abandoned by users).

Background: Salesforce requires that classes be compiled on their servers. In order to refactor multiple classes, you must send a single compilation request with all classes. Because compilation is slow, you typically only want to compile a subset of your project (IE only files related to a refactor).

The way existing salesforce IDE's handle this, is by allowing users to compile all open tabs.

[eamodio]

@ChuckJonas I don't know if this is still blocking you, but I've used a hack here that might work for your depending on your use-case. You can see it in action in the Restore Editors extension.

[ChuckJonas]

@eamodio ahhh very nice! Never would have thought to use the workbench.action.nextEditor cmd to loop through all the editors.

Still seems like sort of a ridiculous hack for something that should obviously be accessible in the API.

[eamodio]

@ChuckJonas totally agree, but it was the best I could figure out with the tools available ;)

[jrieken]

fyi @dbaeumer