[FEATURE] - New setting to define "focus behavior" while navigating in the Side Bar

[ZeChArtiahSaher]

Environment/version

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Steps to reproduce

When navigating with arrows if you press space or enter current editor group grabs focus which shouldn't happen if you press space

How it should work

• When pressing space on current bookmark item the file is selected (and navigated to line with the bookmark) but not focused into.
• When pressing enter on current bookmark item the file is selected (and navigated to line with the bookmark) and focused into.

Why?

With space and arrows you can slide through multiple bookmarks at once without having to refocus bookmarks Activity view/tab thing

[alefragnani]

Hi @ZeChArtiahSaher ,

This is the expected behavior, since the action is the same as clicking the bookmark item. There is no distinction between them.

But I understand your point, you don't want to focus the editor while navigating the bookmarks in the Side Bar. To accomplish that, I could add a new setting to define the behavior. The default value would be the current behavior (focus the editor), and another value to "keep the focus in the Side Bar". This new behavior would be applied to Enter/Space keys and also mouse click.

Hope this helps