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Allow query results view to act as a panel #618

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently, our query results view is an editor webview, which consigns it to one of the editor panes. Occasionally, I find that shifting focus to and from it interacts with where VS code will place newly created editor windows, which can be annoying and unpredictable.

This also represents a potentially suboptimal use of screen real estate: In normal CodeQL development, the panel can be used to examine query logs, but often it is not part of the action; being able to use it for query results would free up more space for source code.

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With the advent of webview views, extensions can contribute general webview-based UIs to the side bar and panels. The highest amount of flexibility would be afforded if we could toggle between the results being displayed in an editor pane and a side bar/panel tab.

I actually think making it live in the panel permanently would be the more natural choice, but I could imagine others being less convinced.

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