<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Sep 9, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Steve King wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 79, 174); -webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">One situation never occurs in a browser but is very, <i>very</i> common in an editor: What happens when you have unsaved changes in the current file then open a new file in the same tab? Should the editor auto-save the current file? Discard changes? Ask the user? None of those approaches are very satisfying.</span></p></div></span></blockquote>That's a good point, although I think a satisfying way to handle this is simply to open a new tab if the current one is unsaved.</div><div><br></div><div>Even though I see now why some people prefer the always-a-new-tab behavior, I still think there are legitimate reasons for manual tabs as well. It would be nice if this were an option, then everyone could just choose the setting they like best.</div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(20, 79, 174); -webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">I do think that TextMate needs a way to somehow scroll the tabs in a manner similar to Firefox. Not being able to see and re-arrange tabs to the right of the viewport is really annoying.</span></p></div></span></blockquote></div><div>I was thinking it might be cool if TextMate had visual tabs like OmniWeb or Shiira:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.mathgamehouse.com/images/phillryu/shiira2full.png">http://www.mathgamehouse.com/images/phillryu/shiira2full.png</a></div><div><br></div><div>But after testing the idea I've decided it just doesn't work with text. Web pages with graphics can be distinguished at thumbnail size, but source code files can't.</div><div><br></div><div>Trevor</div><div><br></div></body></html>