Source and PDF in two separate tabs/windows.

[thistlillo]

VSC allows to detach the active tab and open it in a new window only if the tab has 'editable' content, for example, source code.

We can use LaTeX Workshop with two tabs, the first with the .tex code, the second with the pdf preview. Even if we cannot detach the pdf tab (because not editable), we can detach the source tab in another window. Once we detach the source tab, we can close the "old" source tab in the previous window (the one with the pdf), ending up with two VSC windows, one for the PDF one for the .tex.

However, in this configuration, the PDF tab does not update any more when the .tex file is modified and recompiled. I suppose that means that the PDF viewer is not monitoring the output pdf file for changes.

Would it be possible to add this functionaliry? It is very comfortable to code in separate windows, possibly on two deparate displayes.