• VSCode Version: Code - Insiders 1.13.0-insider (770206a, 2017-05-26T05:14:23.944Z)
• OS Version: Windows_NT ia32 10.0.16199

These 2 apis should honor the ViewColumn if specified, but if left undefined they should default to the column of the active editor

Having this will eliminate code in many extensions such as:

(window.activeTextEditor && window.activeTextEditor.viewColumn) || 1

Which fails for anything that isn't a text document (since viewColumn will be missing)