Tab Switcher

The Tab Switcher provides a quick way to navigate between open tabs in Zed. It displays a list of your open tabs sorted by recent usage, making it easy to jump back to whatever you were just working on.

Quick Switching

When the Tab Switcher is opened using tab_switcher::Toggle, instead of running the tab_switcher::Toggle from the command palette, it'll stay active as long as the ctrl key is held down.

While holding down ctrl, each subsequent tab press cycles to the next item (shift to cycle backwards) and, when ctrl is released, the selected item is confirmed and the switcher is closed.

Opening the Tab Switcher

The Tab Switcher can also be opened with either tab_switcher::Toggle (tab_switcher::Toggle) or tab_switcher::ToggleAll (tab_switcher::ToggleAll).

While the Tab Switcher is open, you can:

• Press menu::SelectNext to move to the next tab in the list
• Press menu::SelectPrevious to move to the previous tab
• Press menu::Confirm to confirm the selected tab and close the switcher
• Press menu::Cancel to close the switcher and return to the original tab from which the switcher was opened
• Press tab_switcher::CloseSelectedItem to close the currently selected tab

As you navigate through the list, Zed will update the pane's active item to match the selected tab.

Action Reference

Action	Description
tab_switcher::Toggle	Open the Tab Switcher for the current pane
tab_switcher::ToggleAll	Open the Tab Switcher showing tabs from all panes
tab_switcher::CloseSelectedItem	Close the selected tab in the Tab Switcher