How to turn off extending window in editor when double clicking tab?

In the editor, having multiple tabs open in split view, double-clicking any tab will change the view of all of them in the editor.

This is a ridiculous feature. Undoing it is a pain, dragging the tabs I want to their respective divisions of the editor window.

How do I switch off this feature?

Who thought this feature was a good idea? Especially when reversing its action takes much longer than the action itself.

[Jan]

Sorry for the trivial question: What about not double-clicking on the tabs?

[Aaron Kaw]

Thank you for asking! This has of course crossed my mind.

1. Accidental double clicks are frustrating enough.
2. My computer is currently having issues with temperamentally double-clicking when I only click once, which I'm trying to figure out how to solve at multiple levels (hardware, software, matlab).
3. I wouldn't be submitting this question if I had no issues with avoiding double-clicking.
4. My question also touches on bad interface design by MathWorks. So I'll consider trying to rephrase my question to make that the emphasis.

[Marcel]

Do you use a laptop? On the laptop im using the touchpad is somewhat broken so its sometimes either clicking on its own or moving my mouse a bit, but most of the times it wouldnt let me click anything at all.

[Jan]

I had a mouse with a damaged micro-switch, which reported mutliple clicks for one press.

A touchpad of a laptop of min is working more reliable after I've installed the drivers from the manufacturer of the pad instead of the ones from the producer of the laptop.

But the point remains, that the split view is fragile and can be destroyed too easily. An undo-method would be great.

I did not had this problem ever, but I can imagine, that it is tedious.

[Aaron Kaw]

Thank you for asking @Marcel, I'm currently using a mouse, and I'm testing out a different mouse today. Regardless of mouse, this feature of the MATLAB GUI is ridiculously annoying, and is the focus of this topic. Granted less incidences of the fragile split-view occur when the mouse is not playing up (if that is indeed another cause) but they still happen by accident when I'm multitasking many things or in an urgent rush, and it becomes quite irritating.

@Jan I'm testing out a different mouse today, we'll see how it goes. But thank you for bringing it back to the fragility of the split-view. I've found no way to undo its combination of windows upon double-clicking.

If anyone has a proper solution or knows how this can be elevated, please speak up, and stop throwing around solutions to other related problems that I'm already working on. The salient issue will still exist even if the other related issues are solved.

[Les Beckham]

@Marcel

What version of Matlab? And what OS?

Double clicking a file tab in the editor doesn't do anything for me in R2022b and Windows 10 (except selecting that tab).

[Aaron Kaw]

Ooh! Thank you for that @Les Beckham. I'll try 2022b then.

I currently have:

% MATLAB Version: 9.11.0.1809720 (R2021b) Update 1
% Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise Version 10.0 (Build 19044)

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[Nicholas]

Using 2025b, I can just double-click the tab again and it snaps back to whatever layout I had before.

[Aaron Kaw]

My company is stuck with 2023b.