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Setting aside your Ctrl+Enter issue, did you know that Ctrl+RightArrow will already do what you want? It intentionally leaves the quickpick open so you can open another of the matches, but it's easy enough to close by pressing Esc.
ctrl+enter appears to be working for me even with your settings. What is it doing for you?
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sorry for the late reply. has the same effect as for me, it opens the file in the current tab. this also opens the file in the current tab for me, leaving quickopen open
if you remove these keybinding settings, does anything change? I'd also love to see what settings you have in your user settings to see if maybe something is up there.
Thanks for reaching back. I commented all keyboard shortcuts and disabled all extensions. Indeed I got it to work when I commented all config of . Then I got to pinpoint it to this setting: which apparently needs to be . Thanks for your help!
That's interesting. is there are scenario where we can open to the side but as a preview? I wonder if this is why this setting affects the behavior.
This is driven by this line: I can only speculate that when I re-implemented quick open, I took this behaviour over from our first version. If I had to guess, then we had this rule back then: always opens to the side opens an editor as non-preview when preview editors are enabled opens an editor to the side when preview editors are disabled So I would argue that -click is the key to use here, same as for the explorer for example. And has special semantics depending on your settings. But we can certainly revisit this and make it consistent if there is inconsistency.
Thanks. That is the behavior I see. Maybe we update the setting description to make this more clear? Current: Maybe we add: "non-preview" or whatever jargon we use. Thoughts Not entirely sure we need to define Preview editor here too.
Yeah I like the idea of updating settings, feel free to do that!
verification: read the docs for the settings. Does the use of there make sense (knowing that we don't want to change the behavior)

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}, 'workbench.editor.enablePreviewFromQuickOpen': { 'type': 'boolean', <del> 'markdownDescription': localize('enablePreviewFromQuickOpen', "Controls whether editors opened from Quick Open show as preview editors. Preview editors do not stay open, and are reused until explicitly set to be kept open (via double click or editing). This value is ignored when `#workbench.editor.enablePreview#` is disabled."), </del> <ins> 'markdownDescription': localize('enablePreviewFromQuickOpen', "Controls whether editors opened from Quick Open show as preview editors. Preview editors do not stay open, and are reused until explicitly set to be kept open (via double click or editing). When enabled, hold Ctrl before selection to open an editor as a non-preview. This value is ignored when `#workbench.editor.enablePreview#` is disabled."), </ins> 'default': false }, 'workbench.editor.enablePreviewFromCodeNavigation': {