Provide API to access and change editor tab labels

Feature Request

The Atom has the ability to customize the tabs, it’s so powerful for some requirements. For example, there is an extension nice-index in Atom that could be able to rename tabs of many opened editors have same name index.js, rename them to the names of their parent folder.

It’s very useful that if we could do so.

@bpasero I got it that the feature requested by #32836 will not be considered in the first half year of 2018. I think my feature request is very similar with that, so may I ask you when the ability to customize tabs in VSC would be added into the roadmap ?

I was excited when I start to think how can I implement a extension like nice-index in VSC, but after I involved in the documents about customizing a VSC extension, I just found that I can not achieve this. I hope that you could consider this feature request, thanks for all of your great works ~ 🙏

[tomByrer]

I hope this feature gets added. It is not uncommon for a ReactJS project to have 20+ index.* files. I was wondering why nice-index had not been ported yet.

[joaomendoncaa]

Well, after discovering I could “alt + [number]” to switch between tabs I didn’t stop until I could make the tabs display their index. I know this is a very niche request so after not finding any solution for this I considered making my own extension for this. Would be a perfect first extension for VSCode.

And now I stumbled upon this…

This is my vote to make the Tabs API solve all the above issues.