Pop out window for AI Chat

Ideas Feature Requests
1

Hello,

I am new to:

  • VS Code
  • Cursor

So apologies if I am overlooking existing functionality.

But there doesn’t seem to be a way to ‘pop out’ the ‘Ctrl + L’ chat into its own window?

I have tried the following steps:

  • In the Chat panel, click on the ‘Open Chat in Editor’ icon

  • Drag the ‘AI Chat’ tab to a new screen

At first, this seems to show the ‘AI Chat’ in a ‘pop out’ window, but the text input then stops working - ie I cannot type anything in the prompt area.

The reason I ask for this functionality is:

  • I’ve come from Sublime Text, so I am used to having a bit more screen real estate for my editor etc.

Thank You.

2

Can confirm this, also that it breaks scrolling etc. Doing the same with other windows works find though so this isn’t a VS Code problem it seems. Also GitHub CoPilot works fine even when undocked.

3

confirm this. Chat editor when moved as a window to otehrscreen doesn’t scroll.

4

The other approach I thought of later, to get a Cursor chat interface on another screen, was to drag the Composer window to another screen, but that’s not working at the moment.

Just adding to this post for reference as I think it comes from the same desire to ‘have more space’:

5

Same issue here. I desire to move the chat window to another screen instead of keeping it in the sidebar.

Reproduce Steps:

  1. Shift-CMD-P: Open chat in editor
  2. Right click the title of the tab → move into new window
  3. cannot input anything in the input box

@amanrs please help to check.

6

I’m experiencing this issue. When I open the AI chat in the editor and drag it to another screen I’m now longer able to ask followup questions. Hoping this is resolved soon as I just purchased two external displays and would love to take advantage of them.

7

Also having this issue. I’m on my trial period and sadly I’d not subscribe if this issue is not fixed. Sidebar takes a big space in my monitor!

8

I would also like this. Sometimes my brain can only focus on one thing at a time and having the chat in amongst everything else makes it more difficult!

9

then upvote the issue

10

I’d love to have this feature. I feel like i’m developing a posture issue by always looking at the right side of my screen lol

11

Please make this a fully supported feature. Workarounds like reloading cursor or adding another tab to the window don’t always work - scrolling is still disabled.