@stevencl we briefly talked about this during my time in Edinburgh, the explorer is very keen on restoring the context you are in when switching views.

Since now we have an explicit way of closing editors we should maybe revisit this.

Right, but here the context when I leave the explorer is that there are no files open. So I would expect that remains when I go back to the explorer. But instead the file that I had closed before switching to another viewlet is reopened.

@stevencl would you expect the explorer to also behave this way when it was not visible and you closed all files? So:

• open search
• open a file
• close the file
• focus explorer

=> should the last file opened in the explorer get visible again?

I now pushed a change to not reopen any file if you closed all files even if the explorer was not visible. I think that helps clearing the clutter.