Feature: add View: Balance Panes function

[marvingreenberg]

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Resizing the panes (editors typically horzontally, bottom panel vertically) is a little slow since it onvolves precision with the mouse then dragging. There is complete toggle for the whole panel. But if I want to have a little terminal (say) and lots of editor I can drag it up/down. But then to get back to a balanced layout requires another drag. And then back to a small one another drag...

I'm proposing a function to "balance" the layout. Probably, it would be a toggle between the current layout and a balanced layout. So if in one context I want a ittle bit of editor with a lot of terminal, then I want to see equal amounts of editor, I can just repeatedly do "View: Balance Panes" to toggle. The name is may not be the best.

So before and after...

I want this to be independent of the side bar (bottom, wherever) nav bar which may be displayed or not but does not affect the notion of equal-width equal-height panes

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[hblancot]

+1

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