vscode settings - Visual Studio Code leave split editor open when empty

Question

Does Visual Studio Code have an option for leaving the split editor screens open when they have no active tabs?

The current behavior is that if I close out of the last open tab in a split screen that the editor removes the split altogether. So if I have the editor split into two vertical screens, it goes back to a single screen once the last file is closed.

Is it possible to make it so that the splits stay active even when empty? This type of behavior is supported in Sublime Text and Atom, but I haven't found an option or any mention of how to do this in VSC.

Answer 1

You can achieve this using the workbench.editor.closeEmptyGroups config setting.