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I think every editor can probably configured to do this. I've set up my VIM to do this specifically (auto reload the buffer when the file is modified). I don't think that one's on VSCode.

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They're not configured to do that by default, most of them ask prompt you if a file changes.

This one is on VSCode for having unsafe default behaviour which is also different to pretty much all the other editors.

VS Code will never close a buffer that has changes (e.g. is dirty). In this case, the buffer was closed because the editor was not dirty. You can change this by configuring "workbench.editor.closeOnFileDelete": false

Having that default to "true" is really silly. VSCode is OSS right? That seems like a mulligan pull request to me. I can't imagine anyone is relying on the default behavior as-is.

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