API: Add `Right` and `Down` to `ViewColumn` enumeration

[gjsjohnmurray]

Extensions that need to open an editor alongside an existing one can currently only specify ViewColumn.Beside. Whether this produces a new editor group to the right of the active one or below it depends on the workbench.editor.openSideBySideDirection setting.

84113 by @rbalet in 2019 requested addition of a ViewColumn.Below value to the enumeration, but it only attracted 12 upvotes so didn't progress beyond Backlog Candidates.

For a similar use case #166309 by extension developer @jmiles17 in 2022 requested workbench.editor.openSideBySideDirection to be made language scoped.

I propose adding two new values to the ViewColumn enumeration:

• Right: -3
• Below: -4

The names match the values of the workbench.editor.openSideBySideDirection setting.

If the team is open to this I am willing to submit a PR implementing it as proposed API.

Related:

• https://github.com/mtxr/vscode-sqltools/issues/280
• https://github.com/mtxr/vscode-sqltools/issues/1047

[justschen]

I believe this is @bpasero

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