How can I open a Markdown file in preview mode by default in VS Code?
If you google "github vscode issues markdown open preview by default", you will probably find this issue ticket pretty high up in the search results: Option to automatically open markdown in preview
#54776. Quoting Matt Bernier from their comment there:

To change this, you can configure the default editor for .md files (or whatever other markdown file extension you wish). Here's an example setting:
"workbench.editorAssociations": {
    "*.md": "vscode.markdown.preview.editor"
}

Use the [View: Reopen Editor With...] command to switch back to the standard text editor.


There's also another related issue ticket about opening the Markdown preview to the side by default: Automatically Activate Markdown Preview #2766. If you're interested in that one too, give it a thumbs up to show support, and subscribe to it to get notified of discussion and progress, but please avoid noisy comments like "+1" or "bump".

I'm trying to configure a GitPod or GitHub Codespace so that the README.md gets automatically opened in preview mode at boot time.
I managed to open the file as:
code README.md

but that opens the editor, I'd like to open it in preview only mode.
