Fix a bug where Zed incorrectly keeps a removed pane as the active pane#56229
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This PR should fix the issue Ben ran into with Auto Watch. It isn’t a bug in Auto Watch itself, but a bug in Zed’s active-pane bookkeeping when Zed auto-closes a pane. Ben had a screen share in its own split; when the share ended, the tab closed, and with it, the pane. In this case, Zed was holding onto the removed pane as the active pane, so Auto Watch was trying to open the next screen share in a pane that was no longer part of the workspace.
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