Allow extensions to force-open the references view

[dummdidumm]

From what I can see it is not possible to force-open the references view. Whether or not that view is opened when calling the command editor.action.showReferences seems to depend on the setting references.preferredLocation, which is set to peek by default. I'd like a way to ignore this setting and force-open the references view, for example through a dedicated command. My use case is implementing a custom command in the Svelte for VS Code extension which in the end should open this view.

It seems you may want this behavior, too, since right now "find file references" is implemented by temporarily switching the user config from "peek" to "view", which creates an empty vscode setting folder/file in the workplace if none exists already, which feels buggy (#134405 would solve this, too, for you, but wouldn't solve my problem)

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