Improved version of "View: Toggle Editor Group Sizes" (workbench.action.toggleEditorWidths)

[dimateos]

We can temporarily maximize an editor tab with #196722 which works great.

You can also use "View: Toggle Editor Group Sizes" (workbench.action.toggleEditorWidths) which reduces the size of other editor groups. In this case the original editor size is not restored, but kind of divided equally.

Sometimes when I use "View: Toggle Editor Group Sizes" I wish it could respect vertically aligned editor groups and only shrink the rest.

For example, I find myself comparing a main log files with 2 secondary ones:

When I want to focus on both secondary and I try to use "View: Toggle Editor Group Sizes" I get only one maximized.
So in this case have to do it manually by dragging the resize widgets, not as convenient and fast as toggling it using the command.

One thing to note, in some situations the split node can be horizontal so the user might want it instead to respect the horizontal alignment. This can be easily shown with the previous example using the command "Toggle Vertical/Horizontal Editor Layout" (workbench.action.toggleEditorGroupLayout)

Request

• A new command similar to "View: Toggle Editor Group Sizes" that enlarges the current editor groups in the same split node
  • I would make it a single command and detect the direction, but there could be a command for horizontal/vertical

[vscodenpa]

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