Explore variations for File > New file and File > New file...

[lychung7]

This is the current experience in the File menu for creating a new file and we want to explore different variations to improve the UX.

[lychung7]

As a duplicate of New File and New File... in the File menu can be confusing, here are a couple of ideas to distinguish between the two.

The first idea on the left is using New Text File and New Editor.... There was previous feedback around introducing the term Editor to the File menu and I thought this could distinguish between immediately opening up a file vs. opening up a quick pick of editor options like below. The second idea was to call the two menu items New Untitled File and New File....

Also, to help users not have to switch editors, there is another idea of adding a second entry point in the placeholder text of an empty text file. Clicking on choose a rich editor would open a similar quick pick with editor options.

Based on team feedback, instead of choose a rich editor, we could use the phrase select a different editor.

[Zerotask]

It would be great if VS Code could offer the creation of specific files.
For example I have a PHP project, then a new file is mostly a PHP class which consists of specific content. This menu could then additionally offer me the option New PHP class. If I enter User, it would create:

<?php

class User {

}

[AlbertoFabbri93]

In my opinion option B is more clear.