Preview Should Open in Same Tab

[cawoodm]

This should be a no-brainer - when I am editing a document I want to preview it on the right in the same tab and not in a separate tab or tab group. The default behaviours (open in new tab or open in new tab in new group) both mean that when I navigate away I have to manually manage getting back to 2 tab groups.

Back story - this was originally requested in #58525 and incorrectly closed and marked as a duplicate of #37883 which is a different issue/request.

The wish is that HTML/Markdown previews can open in the same TAB:

[mjbvz]

There's a Markdown: Open preview command in addition to Markdown: Open preview to the side

[cawoodm]

@mjbvz Yes, this opens the preview in a new tab. Please re-open my request.

[mjbvz]

For that, use View: toggle editor type or view: reopen editor with

[cawoodm]

No, that also does not split the current tab into editor | preview.

[cawoodm]

Hope this makes it plainer:

[macintacos]

@mjbvz @cawoodm wouldn't this be a perfect fit for the "Split In Group" set of commands that was just released in 1.61? When it was released I thought surely markdown preview would be supported as part of that, but it seems like that wasn't added.

[macintacos]

For context, I use the following setting to automatically open Markdown Previews to the side when I open a Markdown file:

  "markdown.extension.preview.autoShowPreviewToSide": true,

However, the annoying thing about this is that when you close out one of the tabs, you have to manually navigate over to the preview (or the editor) and close it out. I would like to treat the markdown raw text and the preview as a single "entity", and close them/open them at the same time. That seems to be essentially what @cawoodm is asking for here, and I don't believe that this is possible. I'm in agreement that this issue should be reopened, as it's not currently possible in VSCode.