Type: Bug

Steps to reproduce:

• Toggle Zen Mode;
• Make sure there are no other open views except one single editor;
• Trigger either Increase Current View Size or Decrease Current View Size command.

Please look at the attached video which goes through these steps interactively.

Expected Behaviour:

The open editor either expands or shrinks horizontally.

Current Behaviour:

Nothing happens :(

Context:

Vscode has two nice commands for increasing/decreasing the current view size, workbench.action.increaseViewSize and workbench.action.decreaseViewSize. I like to map these to shortcuts. They work as indended, except the scenario presented above.

The command works as expected if there are at least two open editors (read below for one open editor alongside additional panels).

My main use case for wanting to do this is working on some certain files (typically HTML) where I could use the extra length of the editor. I usually keep my code within 80 or 120 characters long or use word wrapping, but that looks awkward in those scenarios.

I think that it's not straightforward to define what the behaviour should be if a single editor is open, alongside with one or more different panels (not editors) such as the file explorer (usually on the right) or the terminal (usually below). At the moment the command does increase or decrease their size accordingly, and one could argue about whether or not it should also increase or decrease the editor size. Though, I don't have a problem with doing nothing when additional panels are open. My desire is using this command while only one single editor is open.

If this is indeed deemed as a bug, I am open to contributing a fix.

Additional Information

VS Code version: Code 1.85.2 (8b37750, 2024-01-18T06:40:10.514Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631
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