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NavigateX commands should allow navigating between sidebar sections/views

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#198,765 opened on Nov 21, 2023

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Description

It would be great if the navigateUp, navigateDown commands would allow navigating between different views/sections inside the sidebar. I.e. between "Open Editors" and the file "Explorer". Same goes for the secondary sidebar.

As an example: I moved the "Outline" as well as an extension (ts-type-explorer) to the secondary sidebar and would like to navigate between them quickly. As of right now the last active section always gets focused when navigating to the sidebar.

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Study the existing sidebar navigation commands (e.g., focusFilesExplorer, focusOutline) in VS Code's source code, understand how views are registered and focused, then implement a command to cycle between views in the sidebar.
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VS Code extension developmentTypeScript
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