Dropping popped out windows back into the main editor space closes the editor view
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- electron, typescript
- Domain
- desktop
Research direction
Reproduce the issue in Positron by running View(mtcars), popping the result into a new window, and dragging that window back into the editor space. Start by tracing the editor pop-out and window-docking behavior; done means the editor view remains open after the drop and the return-to-editor workflow is addressed.
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Description
System details:
Positron and OS details:
Positron Version: 2025.10.0 build 95
Code - OSS Version: 1.103.0
Commit: 743eb32ffe742dc59c56bf019d248c178c9d5841
Date: 2025-09-16T07:11:40.215Z
Electron: 37.2.3
Chromium: 138.0.7204.100
Node.js: 22.17.0
V8: 13.8.500258-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0
Session details:
Describe the issue:
Popping out a window doesn't have a 'return to editor' button, and when dragging the external window tab back into the main editor space collapses the editor view.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/71c52351-d796-45ea-af39-bd39eec3de40
Steps to reproduce the issue:
View(mtcars)- Pop-out into new window
- Drag window back into editor space
Expected or desired behavior:
Shouldn't collapse editor view, and ideally we'd have a dedicated 'return to editor' workflow.
Were there any error messages in the UI, Output panel, or Developer Tools console?
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
- Stars
- 4.3k
- Forks
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- Avg merge
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- Merged PRs (30d)
- 195
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