Option to not automatically resize all panes when splitting a pane

[zbjornson]

Right now when you split a pane, all panes are resized so they have equal width:

Personally I'd much rather it preserve the existing widths, and only split the width of the pane that I split. An option for this would be nice.

(Annoyance being that I have two or three columns already; when I click split, I now have to re-resize three or four columns to put them back where I had them.)

[vscodebot]

(Experimental duplicate detection)
Thanks for submitting this issue. Please also check if it is already covered by an existing one, like:

• Panes splitting, auto closing (#65795)
• Terminal Find widget doesn't search in split panes (#59386)
• Allow resize explorer pane and terminal pane to arbitrary width (#62931)

[zbjornson]

None of those appear to be dupes. I also went through every open and closed issue for "split".

[joaomoreno]

@bpasero https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/master/src/vs/workbench/browser/parts/editor/editorPart.ts#L506

[bpasero]

Changing that or offering a setting would result in the following experience:

Is that clever?

[zbjornson]

@bpasero I like that. 😍 I think it'd be nice if that mode did the same (no auto-resize) when closing a tab also -- did you happen to do that?

Thank you! :)